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Fact check: Is sugar consumption down while obesity rates have risen?

Fact check: Is sugar consumption down while obesity rates have risen?

Update: 2018-08-13
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Coca-Cola Amatil group managing director Alison Watkins says that sugar consumption has fallen whilst obesity rates have risen, and that this means neither sugar nor sugar-sweetened drinks are responsible. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
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Fact check: Is sugar consumption down while obesity rates have risen?

Fact check: Is sugar consumption down while obesity rates have risen?

Madeleine Morris