Editing Junk food (section)

===Taxation===
[[File:Walmart Wenatchee.jpg|alt=Junk food lines both sides of tall shelves at a grocery store|thumb|Some governments have considered taxes and limits on advertising or displaying junk food for sale.]]
{{See also|Fat tax|Soda tax}}
To reduce junk food consumption through price control, [[sin tax]]es have been implemented. Targeting [[saturated fat]] consumption, [[Denmark]] introduced the world's first fat-food tax in October 2011 by imposing a surcharge on all foods, including those made from natural ingredients, that contain more than 2.3 percent saturated fat, an unpopular measure that lasted a little over a year.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/denmark-scraps-infamous-fat-tax-news-516018 | title=Denmark scraps its infamous fat tax after only one year | publisher=EurActiv | date=14 November 2012 | access-date=27 March 2015 | archive-date=18 March 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318072344/http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/denmark-scraps-infamous-fat-tax-news-516018 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/13/denmark-scraps-worlds-first-fat-tax/ | title=Denmark scraps world's first fat tax | newspaper=Washington Post | date=13 November 2012 | access-date=27 March 2015 | author=Kliff, Sarah | archive-date=9 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609185234/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/13/denmark-scraps-worlds-first-fat-tax/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="WSJ">{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323894704578113120622763136?KEYWORDS=denmark+fat+tax#articleTabs%3Darticle| title=Denmark Scraps Much-Maligned 'Fat Tax' After a Year| first=Clemens| last=Bomsdorf| access-date=2012-11-14| work=The Wall Street Journal|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Hungary]] has imposed taxes on foods and beverages high in [[added sugar]], fat, and salt.<ref name="bmc">{{Cite journal |last=Wright |first=Alexandra |date=19 Jun 2017 |title=Policy lessons from health taxes: a systematic review of empirical studies |journal=BMC Public Health |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=583 |pmc=5477308 |pmid=28629470 |doi=10.1186/s12889-017-4497-z |doi-access=free }}</ref> Norway taxes refined sugar, and Mexico has various excises on unhealthy food.<ref name="Aprueba Senado en lo general esquema de impuestos 2014">{{cite news|last=Figueroa-Alcantara|first=Héctor|title=Mexican Senate approves tax scheme for 2014, (in Spanish).|url=http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2013/10/28/925767|access-date=31 October 2013|newspaper=Excelsior|date=28 October 2013|archive-date=29 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129130056/https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2013/10/28/925767|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 1, 2015, the first [[fat tax]] in the US, the [[Navajo Nation]]'s Healthy Diné Nation Act of 2014, mandating a 2% junk food tax, came into effect, covering the {{cvt|27000|sqmi||||}} Navajo reservation; the Act targeted problems with obesity and diabetes among the Navajo population.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://time.com/3762922/junk-food-tax-obesity-navajo-nation/ | title=This Place Just Became the First Part of the U.S. to Impose a Tax on Junk Food | magazine=Time | date=30 March 2015 | access-date=6 April 2015 | author=Toppa, Sabrina | archive-date=2 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402225744/http://time.com/3762922/junk-food-tax-obesity-navajo-nation/? | url-status=live }}</ref>