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Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits
OBJECTIVE: Obesity is a pressing public health problem without proven population-wide solutions. Researchers sought to determine whether a city-mandated policy requiring calorie labeling at fast food restaurants was associated with consumer awareness of labels, calories purchased and fast food resta...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24136905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20550 |
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author | Elbel, Brian Mijanovich, Tod Dixon, Beth Abrams, Courtney Weitzman, Beth Kersh, Rogan Auchincloss, Amy H. Ogedegbe, Gbenga |
author_facet | Elbel, Brian Mijanovich, Tod Dixon, Beth Abrams, Courtney Weitzman, Beth Kersh, Rogan Auchincloss, Amy H. Ogedegbe, Gbenga |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Obesity is a pressing public health problem without proven population-wide solutions. Researchers sought to determine whether a city-mandated policy requiring calorie labeling at fast food restaurants was associated with consumer awareness of labels, calories purchased and fast food restaurant visits. DESIGN AND METHODS: Difference-in-differences design, with data collected from consumers outside fast food restaurants and via a random digit dial telephone survey, before (December 2009) and after (June 2010) labeling in Philadelphia (which implemented mandatory labeling) and Baltimore (matched comparison city). Measures included: self-reported use of calorie information, calories purchased determined via fast food receipts, and self-reported weekly fast-food visits. RESULTS: The consumer sample was predominantly Black (71%), and high school educated (62%). Post-labeling, 38% of Philadelphia consumers noticed the calorie labels for a 33 percentage point (p<.001) increase relative to Baltimore. Calories purchased and number of fast food visits did not change in either city over time. CONCLUSIONS: While some consumer reports noticing and using calorie information, no population level changes were noted in calories purchased or fast food visits. Other controlled studies are needed to examine the longer term impact of labeling as it becomes national law. |
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spelling | pubmed-39474822014-05-01 Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits Elbel, Brian Mijanovich, Tod Dixon, Beth Abrams, Courtney Weitzman, Beth Kersh, Rogan Auchincloss, Amy H. Ogedegbe, Gbenga Obesity (Silver Spring) Article OBJECTIVE: Obesity is a pressing public health problem without proven population-wide solutions. Researchers sought to determine whether a city-mandated policy requiring calorie labeling at fast food restaurants was associated with consumer awareness of labels, calories purchased and fast food restaurant visits. DESIGN AND METHODS: Difference-in-differences design, with data collected from consumers outside fast food restaurants and via a random digit dial telephone survey, before (December 2009) and after (June 2010) labeling in Philadelphia (which implemented mandatory labeling) and Baltimore (matched comparison city). Measures included: self-reported use of calorie information, calories purchased determined via fast food receipts, and self-reported weekly fast-food visits. RESULTS: The consumer sample was predominantly Black (71%), and high school educated (62%). Post-labeling, 38% of Philadelphia consumers noticed the calorie labels for a 33 percentage point (p<.001) increase relative to Baltimore. Calories purchased and number of fast food visits did not change in either city over time. CONCLUSIONS: While some consumer reports noticing and using calorie information, no population level changes were noted in calories purchased or fast food visits. Other controlled studies are needed to examine the longer term impact of labeling as it becomes national law. 2013-10-17 2013-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3947482/ /pubmed/24136905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20550 Text en http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms |
spellingShingle | Article Elbel, Brian Mijanovich, Tod Dixon, Beth Abrams, Courtney Weitzman, Beth Kersh, Rogan Auchincloss, Amy H. Ogedegbe, Gbenga Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits |
title | Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits |
title_full | Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits |
title_fullStr | Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits |
title_full_unstemmed | Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits |
title_short | Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits |
title_sort | calorie labeling, fast food purchasing and restaurant visits |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24136905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.20550 |
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