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Three years after Mexico implemented a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, the country\u2019s adults are drinking fewer soft drinks, according to new findings from an international team of researchers.<\/p>\n

The team examined the self-reported soft-drink intake of participants in the three phases of Mexico\u2019s Health Workers Cohort Study \u2013 a self-administered survey on health and lifestyle choices \u2013 and announced their findings May 6, 2020, in the British Medical Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shu Wen Ng, PhD, associate professor and distinguished scholar in public health nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health<\/a>,<\/strong> is coauthor of the paper, \u201cAssociation between tax on sugar sweetened beverages and soft drink consumption in adults in Mexico: open cohort longitudinal analysis of Health Workers Cohort Study.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This research is based on work conducted at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, with the institute\u2019s Luz Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez-Romero, MD, PhD, as first author and Tonatiuh Barrientos-Guti\u00e9rrez, MD, PhD, as senior author.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese results show that the tax is lowering the consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks among an adult cohort over the first three-years of the tax implementation,\u201d says Ng. \u201cIn particular, it lowered the proportion of medium and high consumers of the beverages, while increasing the share of adults who were low-consumers and non-consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on soft-drink consumption, researchers categorized study participants in four groups: non-consumer, low consumer (less than one serving a week), medium consumer (at least one serving a week but less than one serving a day), and high consumer (at least one serving a day). Since the tax, the probability of being a non-consumer of soft drinks increased by 4.7 percentage points, and the probability of being a medium or high consumer of soft drinks decreased by 6.8 percentage points and 6.1 percentage, respectively.<\/p>\n

Though these results reflect just one sample of the nation\u2019s adults, they suggest that the implementation of this tax worked in the way the Mexican government intended it to \u2013 increasing the number of individuals who do not consume soft drinks while decreasing the numbers of those who do. The findings confirm the results of earlier research that showed a decline in sugary-beverage purchases in the first two years of the tax, but this is the first study to examine self-reported consumption of the beverages in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Sugar sweetened beverages, such as soft drinks, are a main source of added sugars in the diet, which have been linked to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, as well as to some types of cancer. Mexico\u2019s high mortality and morbidity rates related to sugar-sweetened beverages led lawmakers to implement a tax of 1 peso per liter on all non-alcoholic drinks with added sugar to improve health outcomes starting in Jan 2014. Since then, other nations and cities around the world have followed with their own taxes in order to reduce obesity-related diseases in their communities.<\/p>\n

These findings are particularly timely given that the severity of and mortality from infectious diseases, including COVID-19, are heightened among those with pre-existing chronic diseases, such as those related to obesity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re beginning to see the importance and impact of these taxes over time,\u201d says Ng. \u201cThis not only adds to the literature we have on sugar-sweetened beverages, but it also provides evidence that these policies work and motivates the need to strengthen these policies for improved health outcomes and healthcare cost savings.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of UNC\u2019s Global Food Research Program<\/a> <\/strong>at the Carolina Population Center<\/a>,<\/strong> Ng and her team collaborate with partners across the globe <\/a><\/strong>to carefully evaluate food and nutrition policies and help to develop in-depth, longitudinal research on large-scale obesity prevention efforts. Ng introduced and advised on the analytical approach used for this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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