Sugar tax: where health and politics meet

This activity busts some of the key myths around sugar and health before considering how a sugar tax could be used to influence public behaviour and the political implications of such an idea.

This is the fifth activity in a series of resources designed around sugar. See the others below:

• Examining sugar using slow looking
• The origins of sugar
• Sugar’s history within the transatlantic slave trade
• Sugar and art through time and across cultures

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