Taxing Soda: Strategies for Dealing with the Obesity and Diabetes Epidemic.

摘要: Over the past several decades, United States has been experiencing a twin epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Recently, advocacy efforts to tax sugary drinks, place warning labels on soda, improve nutritional labeling, reduce sugar overconsumption have swept across nation address public health concerns from drinks that strain our nation's health-care resources. In this article, historical scientific framework policy valuable lessons learned implementation thus far will be examined shape next steps forward for movement. Additional goals article are share surgeon's perspective about trends in bariatric surgery link between diabetes as result peripheral insulin resistance.