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Food is on the government table

By Mary MacVean
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California Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez told a news conference this morning he will introduce legislation to tax sugar-sweetened beverages to fund efforts to fight childhood obesity. Florez (D-Shafter) says his bill would help curb their “rampant consumption.”

The bill would add a per-teaspoon-of-added-sugar tax to sugar-sweetened beverages (although not to diet drinks with non-caloric sweetener), the senator’s office says. The revenue would go toward obesity prevention programs such as nutrition and physical education programs in schools.

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It’s just one of the many ways government is looking at food issues. Read more.

--Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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