The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.world – 504 points – Children’s sugar consumption halved since tax announcement, study finds
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22143130

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I mean, there's also

Second, although adiposity has been consistently shown to be an independent risk factor for several NCDs in individual-level epidemiological studies

in the same exact excerpt.

Yes, being poor and starving still sucks. Nobody cares because it happens outside of the magic Western bubble, but that's another issue for another thread.

I think I've proven my point here, so I'll just duck out.

Yeah, because the individual-level studies aren’t worth shit, that’s the point. They’re like the scientific level of analogies. You get these studies that are on like, 15 people or whatever that make some statistically significant finding, then it later turns out that they either very selectively chose their test subjects, the methodology was a complete joke, they p-hacked the findings into worthlessness or all of the above. If the individual level studies scaled up, if they were actually finding something real, they would be reflected in population-level studies. The fact that they aren’t pretty clearly demonstrates that there isn’t a strong correlation.

Low weight is a significant health issue in wealthy countries too. It’s a massive contributor to mortality rates, as much as high adiposity is. But it’s not discussed because it’s less popular to bully people for being skinny as it is to bully people for being fat.

But sure, I’m the one who refuses to change his mind when challenged.