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Are You Seeing a Difference in Sugar Intake in Kids?
Gene Adams from the Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit thanks very much for coming in. Have you got numbers to put on this as to how exactly important the tax was in reducing sugar intake in kids? We have not yet looked at sugar intake in totality. What we see we've looked at purchasing of drinks in households and we see a reduction there in the kind of 5% range. And is it affecting everyone the same boys girls any different sir? So in terms of this study where we looked at obesity in children we studied both children coming into school in reception year and in year 6 when they leave primary school. And we see an effect just in the year 6 children and the fact that effect
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