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Britain Wants Levies on Fast Food Industry

  • June 07, 2004

Britain is considering imposing levies on fast food firms to fund sports facilities and combat obesity. Governments and food firms have been criticized for failing to combat obesity in Britain and the United States, where as many as two-thirds of the population are considered overweight. In Britain, 47 percent of men and 33 percent of women are overweight and nearly a quarter of both sexes are obese. If the levies were imposed, funds would be used to build sports facilities around the...