How healthy foods could lead to overeating
While eating healthily is considered a key factor in reducing obesity, a new study suggests healthy food labels may be causing us to overeat, fuelling the obesity epidemic.
January 2, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, food-labels, fuelling-the-obesity, key-factor, new-study, obesity, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, reducing-obesity, suggests-healthy
Health labels influence flavour perception
Ghent University researchers found that food labels influence the perception of flavour. Light products are considered less tasty.
December 14, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: considered-less, food-labels, ghent-university, influence-the-perception, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, perception, university
"Unhealthy surcharge" and food labeling can improve health and company profits
The American obesity epidemic is out of control, and health advocates are working hard to ensure that food labels clearly list calorie content and all unhealthy ingredients.
November 14, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: calorie-content, clearly-list, diet, food-labels, obesity-epidemic, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, working-hard
Benefits of ‘traffic light’ food labels, positioning of healthy items
The use of color-coded “traffic light” food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria.
January 9, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: choice, food-labels, large-hospital, long-term-increase, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, popular-items, the-choice, the-way, traffic-light
Peanut Allergies, Breakthrough Could Improve Diagnoses
This product may contain nuts.” It’s an increasingly common warning on food labels of all kinds, given the recent heightened awareness of the dangers of nut allergies.
December 17, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: all-kinds, common-warning, dangers, detect-every, diagnostic-methods, food-labels, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, product, recent-heightened, the-dangers, three-million, warning-on-food, yet-current
Healthier Food Choices Impacted By Low Motivation And Attention, Not The Labeling Itself
The final results from the Food Labeling to Advance Better Education for Life (FLABEL) project, which provides the latest research on consumer behavior and nutrition labels, demonstrate that even though the nutritional information on European food labels is well understood, consumers lacking motivation and attention nevertheless prevent the labels from making a positive impact on food choices…
November 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advance-better, food, food-labels, from-the-food, labels, latest, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, well-understood
Misleading Size Labels Lead To Overeating
People are easily fooled when it comes to food labels, and will eat more of something if they believe it’s a “small” portion, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Authors Nilufer Z…
November 17, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: authors-nilufer, consumer, diet, eat-more, food-labels, journal, new-study, nilufer, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com
Misleading Size Labels Lead To Overeating
People are easily fooled when it comes to food labels, and will eat more of something if they believe it’s a “small” portion, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Authors Nilufer Z…
November 17, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: authors-nilufer, consumer, food-labels, journal, new-study, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com