Dec 18, 2008

Barry Popkin, CPC Fellow and Carla Steel Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill, was interviewed by Nicholas D. Kristof for an op-ed piece about New York’s proposed soda tax.

“Soft drinks are linked to diabetes and obesity in the way that tobacco is to lung cancer,” says Barry Popkin, a nutrition specialist at the University of North Carolina and author of the excellent new book, “The World Is Fat.” (Source: Kristof, Nicholas D. Miracle Tax Diet. New York Times. December 18, 2008.)

To read the entire piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/opinion/18kristof.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

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