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Virginia Tech

Soda pop research

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Assistant Professor Jeff Stein and Haylee Downey, a doctoral candidate in Virginia Tech’s Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program, discovered that when a tax is in place study participants purchased significantly fewer sugary products as measured by fluid ounces, number of items, and calories.

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