health warnings could discourage sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
In another study, Grummon’s group conducted a computer-simulation study on how putting health warnings on sugary beverage labels might affect the obesity epidemic. Her team estimated that such a move “could reduce average sugar-sweetened beverage intake by about 25 calories per day and total calorie intake by about 30 calories per day.”
Over five years, that would be “equivalent to losing about 4 pounds for the average adult,” the UNC team said.
Taxing calories away
Finally, there’s the notion — already legislated in Philadelphia, Berkeley, Calif., and
