{"id":2033,"date":"2011-07-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/weird-education-actually-works-to-control-calories.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:59:32","slug":"weird-education-actually-works-to-control-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Weird. Education Actually Works To Control Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Look at this picture!! A FAT FREE cake has that number of calories? Whoda thunk? A normal person would read that and think twice. <\/span>

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Well a new study shows that if you give people the calorie information (so they can make a more informed choice), and they are more likely to make a healthy choice. <\/span>

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It sounds so commonsensicle that it couldn’t possibly be done! (I know “commonsensicle” is not a word, but it just works here).<\/span>
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Here’s What Happened<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Under a law introduced by the city in 2008, chain restaurants with 15 or more locations nationally must provide consumers with calorie information. This study (just pubbed in the British Medical Journal<\/i>) <\/span>analyzed data collected from 7,309 adult customers in 2007 and 8,489 customers in 2009. <\/span><\/div>\n
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