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Junk food taxes might be changing eating habits

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By ABC7
December 12, 2012

Researchers analyzed 32 previous studies and found there would be a slight decline in consumption of fatty foods with each 1 percent price increase.

They also determined that a 10 percent increase in the price of soft drinks would decrease consumption by between 1 percent and 24 percent. The study appears in PLoS Medicine.

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