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Update Food Nutrition Labels to Include "Exercise Cost" for Calories Listed.

Created by A.T. on October 17, 2014

Update Food & Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for nutrition labels to include an "Exercise Cost" listed near the Calories number. Labeling a 250 calorie bottle of soda with the additional info that the average person would have to "Run 50 Minutes" or "Walk 5 Miles" in order to burn those calories would help inform consumers and allow them to make easier nutritional and health decisions.

Sara Bleich, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, already has a simple design with data to back it up:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/forget-calories-ii/381...

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