Knowing Time Needed to Walk Off Calories May Curb Appetite

Menus that show how much exercise will be needed to burn off the calories in meals may help reduce how much people eat, researchers report. The new study included 300 people, aged 18 to 30, who were given either a menu without calorie labels, a menu with calorie labels or a menu with labels for the minutes of brisk walking needed to burn off the calories in the food. Brisk walking was chosen as the form of exercise because it is something that nearly everyone can relate to, said lead researcher Ashlei James, a graduate student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The findings were scheduled for presentation Tuesday at the Experimental Biology meeting in Boston. Data and conclusions from research presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_136177.html