One way to stem.

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One way to stem the rising rates of obesity may be to mimic the successful approach to decreasing smoking: taxes. An experiment conducted in the Division of Behavioral Medicine at the University at Buffalo (N.Y.) showed that, while consumers did select more of the healthier options when they were less expensive, they then used the money saved to purchase more less-healthy options. However, adding a tax of...