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Food Choices Unaffected by Calorie Counts on Menus In an attempt to encourage people to make healthier dietary choices and combat obesity, New York City began requiring fast-food restaurants to list the calories of their foods on menus in 2008. To study the effectiveness of this practice, researchers gathered restaurant receipts and surveyed patrons at fast-food restaurants both before and after mandatory labeling began. They found that more ...
Few Consumers Consult Restaurant Menu Calorie Counts New York's initiative to encourage healthier eating by requiring chain restaurants with 15 or more locations nationally to display calorie information on their menus has had mixed results. While diners who reported using the caloric information purchased 106 fewer calories than customers who ignored or did not see the information, only 15 percent actually used the labels. Overall, researchers found ...
Smoking Rates Still High in Certain US Industries Despite the fact that adult smoking rates in the US have decreased considerably in recent decades, a large portion of the people working in the mining, food service, and construction industries in the US still smokes. The overall adult smoking rate in the US is 19.3 percent. Yet, 30 percent of mining, hotel/motel, and food service workers smoke, as do ...
1 in 10 Kids Diagnosed with ADHD Nearly 10 percent of children in the US have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a sizeable increase from a few years earlier. Between 2003 and 2007, the percentage of children ages 4 to 17 who were ever diagnosed with ADHD rose from 7.8 percent to 9.5 percent—a 22 percent increase. This increase in diagnoses was seen in kids of all ...
Added Sugars Hurt Heart Health In recent years, the average American's diet has increasingly incorporated added sugars, defined in a recent study as "caloric sweeteners used by the food industry and consumers as ingredients in processed or prepared foods to increase the desirability of those foods." In the mid-1990s, 15.8 percent-or 359 calories a day-of the typical American's diet was composed of added sugar, an ...