Doctors battling Australia’s chronic disease scourge want both major parties to implement a tax on ‘sickly’ soft drinks in a major ... tax based on the sugar content, set at 50c per 100 ...

The tax would be a specific excise tax based on the sugar content, set at 50c per 100 ... of sugar in the average 375ml can of soft drink. The AMA’s proposed sugar tax would hit soft drinks ...

becomes a very sweet drink, albeit with some fibre in it. "In terms of sugar content," he warns, "smoothies are on a par with Coke. It does not matter that the sugar is 'natural' (that is ...

You have probably heard the term “ultra-processed food.” What does that mean? Unprocessed food probably requires little explanation. For example, ...