Number of calories and nutritional information – so the food in the supermarket are marked in a classic way. Although they are intended to encourage consumers to healthier purchasing decisions, however, the table misses often your effect.
While in Germany, currently the Nutri-Score-food-traffic-light as an Alternative is introduced, thinks the UK on a Label that displays how much exercise you need to Burn the calories.
According to a recent study in the Journal of Epidemology and Community Health, such a marking could contribute significantly to the healthier diet and the reduction of obesity in the Population.
Sweating for the chocolate
The so-called Pace-marking (Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent) to be printed – just like the nutritional information on the packaging of food products and indicate how much time of which sports is necessary, the added calories untrain again.
So could a candy bar with 230 calories soon the indication “42 minutes of walking” or “22 minutes of Jogging” are.
Is called an awareness of how long you have to for the short enjoyment of sweating, you can select according to the authors of the study, the food covered.
The Problem of current food labelling, the researchers see that it gives the consumers no clear ideas of the importance of the number of Calories.
Therefore, this is not perceived when shopping often aware of, and underestimated. The specific details of sporting activity could change this.
Daily Savings of about 200 calories
For the current study, the researchers synthesized 14 different sources, including especially studies with control groups and scientific experiments.
The result Was the Pace-labelling on foods consumed by the subjects per meal an average of 65 calories, less than with the classic table of nutritional value, or without any information.
Extrapolated to three meals and two Snacks, the scientists come to a daily Savings of approximately 195 calories.
Motivation to healthier Lifestyle
Because the Label is not animated, only to calorie-poor buying decisions, but also anregelmäßige movement reminds, can motivate the Pace-marking to a healthier lifestyle in General.
The health of the society could benefit, according to researchers enormously.
“There is already a reduction in the daily energy intake by only 100 calories in combination with physical activity could reduce Obesity in the population, resulting in diseases such as Diabetes significantly,” the authors of the study.
Source
- Daley, Amanda/McGee, Eleanor/Bayliss, Sue/Coombe, April/Parretti, Helen M. (2019): Effects of physical activity calorie equivalent of food labelling to reduce food selection and consumption: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled studies, retrieved on 11.12.2019. https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2019/11/24/jech-2019-213216.full
Laura Hindelang
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