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Critics argue a sugar tax would increase the consumption of unhealthy artificially sweetened foods

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HE GOVERNMENT is hoping to reduce the amount of sugar Danes consume by taxing sugar in a manner similar to last year’s introduction of a saturated fat tax. Defending the proposal on Monday night on public broadcaster DR’s news programme ‘Deadline’, the acting health minister, Pia Olsen Dyhr, said that the sugar tax would encourage Danes to move to healthier foods while also raising money that could be invest-

ed in the public health system. ment would have to commission a study Questions remain, however, over to see if consumers would really simply whether the tax would lead people to seek out artificially-sweetened products simply consume more products contain- if sugar were taxed. ing artificial sweeteners, which some Further criticism of both the sugar studies have demonstrated can cause and fat tax was aired by Joan Preisler, diabetes and increase the risk of stroke. a health consultant for supermarket “There seems to be a portion of society group FDB. who become hungry from experiencing a “People won’t immediately change sweet taste without sugar entering the their habits. Meat will still be the focus bloodstream, and that could make people of their meal, and by not cutting down eat more of the wrong food to tackle the on that, they simply end up with less hunger,” Arne Astrup, a professor in nutri- money to buy the healthier food,” Pretion at Landbohøjskole, said on the pro- isler said. “The people who are the most gramme. “There are also studies that show in need of becoming healthier are going an increased risk of strokes from consum- to be hit hard by this tax and are not going these artificial sweeteners.” ing to become healthier.” Dyhr said she could notOrganise respond to a personal Dyhr admitted that it was problemmeeting these allegations and that and the governaticathat the people who suffered the sit in on class.

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greatest health risks associated with the overconsumption of sugar and fat were also society’s poorest. But she added that the taxes would prove an opportunity for consumers to find healthier alternatives in their diet – by buying chicken instead of sausages, for instance. “We need to get to the core of the issue, which is that we have a health challenge in Denmark, not only with tobacco and alcohol, but also with sugar and fat and we also need to exercise more,” Dyhr said. “If we just sit around and don’t do anything about it, the statistics will show that Danes will continue to die earlier than their neighbours.” Critics of both the sugar and fat

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