# Professor Vishal Singh discusses his research on a potential "fat tax" to help combat obesity

1 Faculty News December 21, 2015 ![Medical Xpress logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/medicalxpress192x144.jpg?itok=TdHv41Zj)>

Excerpt from [Medical Xpress](http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-obesity-epidemic-fat-tax.html) -- "'The general perception is that these taxes need to be substantial, at least 20% and often as high as 50%, to have a meaningful impact. This would be highly regressive since low-income consumers spend a greater proportion of their disposable income on food. Here, we have compelling field-based evidence that such taxes don't need to be high to be effective,' noted [Singh](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vishal-singh)."

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