So This Means A Soda Tax Will Be Less Useful, Right?
Interesting theory, not sure if I buy it though:
Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Consumer Issues, FeedManhattan shops are less likely to have candies, chips, sodas and other munchies at the checkout than stores elsewhere in the country, according to researchers at the Tulane University School of Public Health.
Nationwide, 41 percent of non-food stores stock the treats, but in Manhattan, just 32 percent do.
The upside is that Manhattan’s obesity rate is 16 percent, compared with 33 percent in the rest of the country.