article_snippet: charged on unhealthy cake mix, drinking chocolate and salt – compared with 20 per cent levied on mineral water and healthy snacks such as roast almonds and dried fruit.
article_snippet: 20 per cent levied on mineral water and healthy snacks such as roast almonds and dried fruit found the Government’s Technology Strategy Board gave £637,812 to a joint project with Mondelez – the parent company of Cadbury – for ‘confectionary production’.
article_snippet: The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has now identified 200 measures including a ban on fast-food outlets near schools and business-rate cuts for alternatives offering healthy dishes.
article_snippet: Supermarkets would also be required to offer price promotions on healthy food, while there would be strict controls on all food sold in schools and hospitals.
article_snippet: Experts claim that thousands by putting a health tax of 12p a can on sugary drinks .
article_snippet: Experts at the University of Liverpool and the Children’s Food Campaign claim that thousands of cases of diabetes and cancer could be avoided, saving the NHS £300million, by putting a health tax of 12p a can on sugary drinks.
article_snippet: The academics' work will fuel the growing campaign to extend the principle of a duty on unhealthy products from cigarettes and alcohol to some types of drink and food.
article_snippet: Health campaigners and doctors have controversially likened sugar and its contribution to obesity and ill-health as the ‘new tobacco’.
article_snippet: The Liverpool team calculates that a tax of 20p per litre – 12p per can – would reduce the number of cases of diabetes by just under 50,000 over 20 years.