Calories on menus don’t affect kids’ food choices | Reuters
Posted On February 18, 2011
Requiring fast-food restaurants in New York City to post calorie counts on menus did little to cut the number of calories children and teens consumed, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
They found that children and adolescents noticed the calories posted on the menu but the calorie counts made little difference in what they chose to order. The researchers said taste was the most important factor the children and teens gave for their menu selections.
The study, published online in the International Journal of Obesity, challenges the notion that calorie labeling affects purchasing behavior of teens or parents buying food for their children.
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Who is really surprised by this? Children won’t be as likely as adults to moderate their eating behavior due to a calculus of fats, carbs, points, proteins, calories, and on and on. Why is that? Because they’re CHILDREN. Again, who is really surprised by this?
It’s hard to get even adults to change their behaviors based on a more seasoned and reasoned approach. To ask that of kids who still think their immortal, is naive and certainly didn’t come from anyone who has raised kids!!
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Calories on menus don’t affect kids’ food choices | Reuters
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