How the media’s language of obesity may have made the sugar tax inevitable

Atanasova, Dimitrinka (2016) How the media’s language of obesity may have made the sugar tax inevitable. [Online resource]

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The government’s decision to impose a ‘sugar tax’, announced in the 2016 Budget, should have come as no surprise, writes Dimitrinka Atanasova. Rather it was anticipated based on longer term trends in obesity news reporting – reporting on what has (even) been called a ‘national emergency’.