Healthcare Triage: Sadly, Putting Calorie Counts on Menus is Ineffective

Aaron Carroll

April 28, 2015

We’re eating too much. There are lots of people who think that menu labelling, or putting the number of calories in stuff up on the wall, will help people to eat more healthily. Sounds great, right? You think there might be some research on that?

Menu labelling is the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

For those of you who want to read more, here you go:

Study: Some cereals more than 50% sugar
The Impact of Menu Labeling on Fast-Food Purchases for Children and Parents
Accuracy of Stated Energy Contents of Restaurant Foods
Supplementing Menu Labeling With Calorie Recommendations to Test for Facilitation Effects
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Restaurant Menu Calorie Labeling

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Healthcare Triage, menu labelling, obesity

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

Healthcare Triage: Sadly, Putting Calorie Counts on Menus is Ineffective

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