Calorie Advice on Menus Might Not Help People Eat Better

Making general calorie consumption guidelines available to patrons of restaurants where calorie count labels are already on the menu does not lead to better food choices, new research cautions. "The general inability of calorie labeling to result in an overall reduction in the number of calories consumed has already been pretty widely shown," said study lead author Julie Downs. "So that's nothing new. But in the face of that, there has been the growing thought that perhaps the problem is that people don't know how to use the information without some framework, some guidance," she explained. http://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutritional-information-27/food-and-nutrition-news-316/dishing-out-calorie-recs-alongside-calorie-labels-on-menus-does-not-improve-food-choices-678431.html