Food Labeling System Effective For One Sixth Of US Consumers

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One in every six US consumers is reading calorie data on the newly introduced food labeling system, and is consequently buying products with fewer calories, US researchers reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). They describe this as a small but encouraging effect of the new legislation which came into force in New York in 2008.

But are they eating fewer Calories?

That is what matters.

(relative to Calories out, that is)