Professor Stephen Colagiuri,
Australia’s only contributor to
the World Health Organization’s
inaugural global report on diabetes,
has called for consideration of a
tax on sugar to help deal with the
epidemic proportions of diabetes
growth here.
The report highlights that the
number of people worldwide with
diabetes has quadrupled since 1980
and an estimated 422 million adults
were living with the disease in 2014.
Colagiuri proposed a sugar tax
was one way among a range of
measures the Government could
undertake in order to to tackle the
problem.
Referring to programs aimed at
cigarette consumption and road
safety for example, Colagiuri said
there is a responsibility on society
to create an environment where
changes to prevent weight gain,
and in turn the development of
diabetes, are facilitated and not
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