The effect of menu labeling with calories and exercise equivalents on food selection and consumption

BMC Obesity

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Platkin, Charles ^a   Yeh, Ming Chin ^a   Hirsch, Kimberly ^a   Wiewel, Ellen Weiss ^b   Lin, Chang Yun ^c   Tung, Ho Jui ^d   Castellanos, Victoria H ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise equivalents; Fast food; Menu labeling; Nutrition labeling; Obesity; Point of purchase

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALORIE; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMAN; MENU LABELING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE-FACTOR-EATING-QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 85002157556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20529538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40608-014-0021-5     Document Type: Article

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