{"id":34874,"date":"2015-07-30T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34874"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:52:31","slug":"the-bmj-today-taxing-sugar-doesnt-have-to-be-taxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/07\/30\/the-bmj-today-taxing-sugar-doesnt-have-to-be-taxing\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Taxing sugar doesn&#8217;t have to be taxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/07\/sugar_tax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34876\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/07\/sugar_tax.jpg\" alt=\"sugar_tax\" width=\"166\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a>Increasing evidence suggests that taxes on soft drinks, sugar, and snacks can change diets and improve health, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4047\" target=\"_blank\">Sirpa Sarlio-L\u00e4hteenkorva argues in <em>The BMJ<\/em> today<\/a>. Arguing in favour of a sugar tax,\u00a0 Sarlio-L\u00e4hteenkorva says that a tax of about \u20ac1 (\u00a30.70; $1.10) on a kilogram of sugar would &#8220;substantially reduce demand for sugar and sweets and bakery products, with a slight increase in demand for meat.&#8221; She said this sugar tax would reduce body weight by an average 3.2 kg and the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 13%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking the opposite view, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4047\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Winkler argues that taxation is a negative approach<\/a>, &#8220;punishing the bad rather than rewarding the good.&#8221; He says that there are more positive options, such as cutting product margins on soft drinks to ensure that sugar free drinks are cheaper.\u00a0 &#8220;Nutrition policy needs price instruments, but a more positive selection. Sugar taxes are unlikely to be adopted and would not make much difference if they were,&#8221; Winkler says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/07\/day_surgery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34877\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/07\/day_surgery.jpg\" alt=\"day_surgery\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Elsewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4060\" target=\"_blank\">John Appleby writes that the rising proportion of operations carried out as day cases over the past few decades has been &#8220;good for patients and a much more efficient use of NHS resources<\/a>.&#8221; Appleby says that following the creation of a Department of Health task force on day surgery, along with \u00a315m (\u20ac21m; $23m) of capital funds to expand the number of dedicated day surgery units, almost all trusts have at least one unit. He argues that if the move to more day cases hadn&#8217;t been made the cost to the NHS would have been far greater. In fact, by treating more patients as day cases, &#8220;the NHS had in effect saved around \u00a32bn by 2013,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In BMJ Confidential, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h3960\" target=\"_blank\">Pankaj Sharma, professor of neurology at Royal Holloway and consultant neurologist, reveals his guilty pleasure is playing polo<\/a>, which he describes as &#8220;thrilling, yet dangerous.&#8221; Sharma says that it was a comment by UK neurology professor, telling him that he would &#8220;never have a career in British neurology&#8221; that spurred him on to pursue the specialty. &#8220;The choice was made for me: neurology it was, and I&#8217;ve never looked back,&#8221; he says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4082\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Newbold, professor of health leadership, has written an editorial in response to the recent debate around seven day services and hospital doctors&#8217; contracts.<\/a> Newbold argues that when Jeremy Hunt said in his speech at the King&#8217;s Fund that the BMA was &#8220;not remotely in touch with what [its] members actually believe&#8221;; he clearly thought that some doctors would support his proposals. Doctors would be better off addressing its frustrations with the workings of the health service &#8220;from the inside,&#8221; Newbold says,\u00a0 &#8220;as leaders, rather than from the outside, as critics.&#8221; He adds, &#8220;Whether doctors win or lose this [contract] battle we will surely lose the war unless our positioning, and perceived positioning, in this critical debate about the future of the health service changes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Abi Rimmer<\/strong> is deputy editor, BMJ Careers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Increasing evidence suggests that taxes on soft drinks, sugar, and snacks can change diets and improve health, Sirpa Sarlio-L\u00e4hteenkorva argues in The BMJ today. 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