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The More You Know, The Less You'll Eat
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We have nutritional labels already, and packages now have those calories/fat/sodium labels on the front, too. But some British teens are campaigning for "traffic light" labels, with green, yellow, and red to indicate just how good or bad processed food really is for you, because the existing labels don't tell you that, they just give you numbers and percentages. And in America, there's a movement to label foods with the amount of exercise you'll need to burn off the calories, which is a little less helpful, since it's extremely imprecise and that amount will be wildly different for different people with different body types and exercise regimens. As someone who needs to check the labels all the time for my own dietary needs, I welcome all the information I can get, but I'm not sure either of these will really help much. And you know how calories on menus take the joy out of eating out for some people. Yet you should know when a dish is loaded with calories, fat, sodium, and/or sugar, so... what would be the best way to get that across? (The Guardian; Washington Post)
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