Minorities’ health would benefit most from beverage sugar tax, UCSF researchers report

Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages is likely to decrease consumption, resulting in lower rates of diabetes and heart disease, and these health benefits are expected to be greatest for the low-income, Hispanic and African-American Californians who are at highest risk of diabetes, according to a new analysis led by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/uoc…