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October 10, 2012
In Today's Issue
- Overweight? Shocking Proof that it may not be your fault
- No Surprise Here: Shoppers Who Read Labels Are Thinner
- 1 Quick Technique To Burn More Fat
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No Surprise Here: Shoppers Who Read Labels Are Thinner
Dear Reader,
Here's why label reading may be worth your while. Research appearing in the journal Agricultural Economics has proven what many might have suspected -people, especially women, who read the labels on food products as they shop are thinner than those who don't check the labels. Women who looked at the labels weighed almost 9 pounds less than those who didn't read labels.
Today food labels are mandatory on most packaged food and drinks - over 6.5 billion packages in all; while labels on fresh produce and fish are voluntary. The label, on the back, side or bottom of a package, is there to give us detailed information about nutrient content and comes as the result of a recommendation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, made into law by the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA). Labels have been on products since 1995.
Nutrition labels are intended to give the nutrient picture for the food in question. They list the number of calories, as well as how much sodium, sugars, fats, protein, dietary fiber and other key vitamins and minerals are inside.
The findings on food label reading and weight come from the work of an international team of scientists, headed by those from Spain's University of Santiago de Compostela, who examined over 25,640 observations on health, eating and shopping that came from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) that's conducted annually by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some of the information collected was about reading nutritional information at the market - both if a subject did so, and how often.
The researchers first looked at just who reads nutrition labels when buying food - to create an accurate profile of those who were label readers. They saw some significant differences between readers and non-readers and began to look at if the label reading behavior had any relation to weight. With obesity being such a growing problem in the U.S. learning more about consumer behavior, including label reading, might help us to turn the tide on unhealthy trends.
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No Surprise Here: Shoppers Who Read Labels Are Thinner Continued...
There were key differences between those who read food labels and those who didn't use this information when making buying decisions. Smokers especially didn't pay attention to the labels on foods, but then, they aren't bothered by increasingly seriously worded warnings on the side of cigarette packages either. It may be that this group has simply tuned out to anything on a package label.
Those who live in the city (a full 49% of the sample) were most careful about checking the labels on a food. Those who had high school (40% of the sample) or college educations (17% of the sample) also were more attentive. When it came to label reading and the sexes - only 58% of men read labels, while a far larger 74% of women are label readers. White women in the city read labels more than anyone else.
On average, women who read labels have a body mass index (BMI) that's 1.48 points lower (0.12 points for men) than non-readers. Going forward, adding nutritional information onto menus would also be a benefit to those who typically eat out more often.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=163002
U.S. FDA on labeling and nutrition:
http://www.fda.gov/food/labelingnutrition/default.htm
General background on U.S. nutrition facts label:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition_facts_label
More on the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition_Labeling_and_Education_Act
Mayo Clinic info on decoding food labels:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nutrition-facts/NU00293
USDA National Agricultural Library on food labeling:
http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/food-labeling
More on the CDC National Health Interview Survey:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
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