If you don’t already avoid fast food restaurants – there’s no time like the present to start. It is best to keep health snacks, like walnuts or bananas, in your car to eat throughout the day. When you do need to eat out, order a salad with dressing on the side.
Potential effect of physical activity based menu labels on the calorie Equivalent (PACE) Labeling on Adult Fast Food Ordering and Exercise
According to sciencedaily.com, earlier was attempted to implement the labels with calories content to the menu of fast food restaurants. However, sciencedaily.com says, “a study claims listing the number of calories in a fast-food meal isn’t enough to change how much of it you’ll eat.”
Nevertheless, scientist don’t give up. Recently sciencedirect.com says, “Numeric calorie content labels show limited efficacy in reducing the number of calories ordered from fast food meals. Physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) labels are an alternative that may reduce the number of calories ordered in fast food meals while encouraging patrons to exercise…
A total of 1000 adults from 47 US states were randomly assigned via internet survey to one of four generic fast food menus: no label, calories only, calories + minutes, or calories + miles necessary to walk to burn off the calories. After completing hypothetical orders participants were asked to rate the likelihood of calorie-only and PACE labels to influence (1) food choice and (2) physical activity.”
Content of selected fast food meals showed below
Researcher’s conclusion is “both calorie-only and PACE menu labels appear effective in reducing the number of calories participants order from hypothetical fast food menus. PACE labels may have the added benefit of encouraging restaurant patrons to exercise. Further research is warranted to study the efficacy of PACE menu labels in real-world settings.”
Graphical illustration of their results showed below.
Conclusion
As a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, DEREK THOMPSON, say, “Hunger doesn’t come from our stomachs alone. It comes from our heads, too. We need our active memories to know when to begin and end a meal”. Let’s start taking the steps today to rid your diet of fast foods, and you will immediately start feeling better. Remember, you are what you eat!