One of the recommendations made by the University of the Witwatersrand is to pay a 20% tax on sugary drinks. This way it will be more expensive and people will buy less. Healthy options, like water, will be cheap compared to this. This will encourage people to choose healthier alternatives instead of buying sugary drinks which pose big health risks. Most people won't focus on something like sugary drinks. People don't realize how serious something like this can be. Research has found that 68.8% of adults over the age of 20 are obese. Something like too much sugar has a major impact on this number. The worst part is that people don't even know that it can lead to