Tufts University Jun 9 2026 One of the challenges public health officials face in reducing diet-related disease is the relatively easy and inexpensive access to sugar-sweetened beverages globally. To help address this burden, public health organizations like the World Health Organization and American Heart Association have recommended that governments tax sugar-sweetened beverages. Now, new research from the Food is Medicine Institute at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition