Texas bill is latest attempt to curb the spread of diabetes and other health complications linked to poor diet.
A study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that stores market sugary drinks more heavily on days when SNAP benefits are issued. By Laura Reiley Laura Reiley Reporter covering the business of food Email Bio Follow May 1 at 1:11 PM Texas state legislators are taking fresh aim at energy drinks, soda and candy. State Rep.
A study in the “American Journal of Preventive Medicine” found that stores market sugary drinks more heavily on days when SNAP benefits are issued, which might in part explain the $700 million bill for beneficiaries’ sweet tooth. “Before 2015, there were no guideline for added sugar. We set a threshold,” Mary Story, a scholar in the field of child and adolescent nutrition at Duke’s Global Health Institute and a member of the USDA’s 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, said in a recent interview.
“People are wired from an early age to like sweetness and fats,” Story said, citing misleading labeling for perpetuating the overconsumption of added-sugar calories. “You can put health claims and nutrition claims and pictures of fruit on a label. Look at Sunny D, it’s not a fruit drink but there are pictures of fruit on the label.
Daniel Lubetzky, the billionaire chief executive of the KIND snack company, has begun waging his own battle about added-sugar labeling.
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