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Britain fights fat with soft drink sugar levy

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Britain has launched a strategy aimed at curbing childhood obesity by taxing companies which sell sugar-laced soft drinks and investing that money in programmes to encourage physical activity and balanced diets for school children. Sonia Legg reports.

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