Does calories eat something honest?
A study by the University of Alicante in collaboration with various American universities, the Utility that you must inform the caloric contribution of the menu in the restaurants to combat overweight.
The work, published in the Journal of the European Economic Association under the title ‘Publication of calories in restoration, obesity and thesis of the consumer‘is signed by researchers Charles Courtemanche (University of Kentucky), David Frisvuld (Iowa University), Marietou Ouayogode (University of Wisconsin), Michael K. Price (University of Alabama) and David Jiménez, of the Department of the University of Economicante of Economic Analysis.
The research argues that the increase in Information about the calories of each menu dish reduces overweight among consumersThe UA reported on Monday about a statement. In particular, according to studies carried out from the data from the United States, the reduction of Body Mass Index (BMI) is 0.19 points for clients with obesity.
«It is not a big decrease for overweight or obesity peopleBut confirms that it is a measure that has positive effects as a health policy against obesity and on which you can work before the phenomenon of overweight in Western societies. Without a doubt, the more information, the better the consumer’s reaction, what translates into a reduction in calorie consumption, “Jiménez explained.
Negative effect on those who have sufficient weight
But the researcher specified that There is a negative effect on those people with sufficient weight Or even in those whose BMI is under the recommended. The study detects that in the cases of lower BMI there is also influence on the reduction of calorie consumption under their needs, in addition to influencing the feeling of “good action”.
He Analysis of the level of “good prove” is fundamentally in this workBecause it is a variable that has also been measured on the basis of the study and consumption data, which have been developed for years in which data from comparable areas were compared where it was applied and where not the caloric data of the menus.
Above all, because the study by the authors of the article has tried not only the impact of the obligation to measure the calories, but also The why of the reactions of the customers to the increased behavioral stimuli. The purpose of the analysis was to see what the differences in the customer’s response who had caloric information from their menu and those who missed that information were.
In fact, the information of the calories in the menus has a very clear effect because of the ‘moral costs’ that finding a food that knows it can be considered an excess that can cause guilt, discomfort or discomfort, feelings, feelings influences the client’s decision about food in relation to their weight level.
But, and here is one of the most interesting elements of the research, with those people whose BMI is under the recommended, there is a double negative effect: They reduce their caloric consumption and information influences their sense of “good”. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM