When it comes to combating the obesity epidemic, researchers are doing their best to invent new ways of convincing us to eat healthier and be more active. A new research effort led by Loughborough University focuses on the educational aspect of nutrition and, more specifically, ensuring that consumers are informed about how many calories they are taking in when eating packaged foods, and how much exercise would be required to burn those calories off.
Nutritional information on the side of any food item is a good thing, but many people find it hard to tally their caloric intake over the course of a day, as juggling all those numbers in one’s head is a difficult task. So, rather than simply listing a calorie number, the researchers tested how consumers responded to exercise requirement data instead.
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Would you eat less if foods told you how much exercise it takes to burn them off? originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 16:30:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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