Sixty seconds on . . . soda taxes

A “soda tax”? We’re not in the US (thank goodness!)

I know, but soda sounds much snappier than sugar sweetened beverages. Anyway, the NHS has launched a consultation on whether to introduce a levy on the sale of sugary drinks or to ban them completely from NHS premises. NHS England’s chief executive, Simon Stevens, said he did not want hospitals to be “marketing joints for junk food and unhealthy sodas.”