Over the past two decades, labels such as the U.S. Nutrition Facts Panel on packaged foods, calorie counts on national restaurant menus, front-of-pack labels encouraging healthier eating, and “low-sodium” or “fat-free” identifiers have been developed in order to promote healthier choices. But do they work? A new Food-PRICE systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies,… Continue reading Food Labels Have Effects on Consumption and Product Formulation
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Fast-Food Portions Haven’t Gotten Any Bigger
Although the conventional wisdom is that restaurant portions have expanded over the years, that’s not always the case, according to new reports from researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University. The studies actually show very little changes in fast-food portion sizes between 1996 and 2013. The average… Continue reading Fast-Food Portions Haven’t Gotten Any Bigger