Like the foods they aim at, fat taxes look appetising but can have nasty effects.

就像这些食品一样，肥胖税看起来美味可口，却可能产生不良后果。

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In fact, many studies have shown that counting calories, carbs or fat grams, is truly distracting - to the point that it taxes short-term memory.

事实上，很多调查表明计算卡路里，碳水化合物和脂肪的重量，是令人们疯狂的——以至于他会影响人们的短期记忆力。

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Because the FAT taxes only profits, it would take a much higher rate to generate as much revenue.

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National liberals have not been much better, spending most of their time bad-mouthing milk and advocating fat taxes, which is apparently a recreational activity at the increasingly vitriolic Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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The great 19th-century philanthropists laid down their fortunes and set up their foundations in the days when profits were fat, taxes thin and labour weak.

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