ArticleAmerican journal of public health2009
Menu labeling as a potential strategy for combating the obesity epidemic: a health impact assessment.
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- Evaluating the impact of menu labeling on food choices and intake.American journal of public health · 2010Trial
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- Trends in the Nutrition Profile of Menu Items at Large Burger Chain Restaurants.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Effects of Menu Labeling Policies on Transnational Restaurant Chains to Promote a Healthy Diet: A Scoping Review to Inform Policy and Research.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Use of research evidence in state health policymaking: Menu labeling policy in California.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Frequency of Eating Out at Both Fast-Food and Sit-Down Restaurants Was Associated With High Body Mass Index in Non-Large Metropolitan Communities in Midwest.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2018Article
- Early childhood obesity prevention efforts through a life course health development perspective: A scoping review.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Menu labeling implementation in dine-in restaurants: the Public's knowledge, attitude and practices.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2017Article
- Factors Associated with Self-Reported Menu-Labeling Usage among US Adults.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2016Article
- Empowering people to be healthier: public health nutrition through the Ottawa Charter.The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society · 2015Review
- Changes in awareness and use of calorie information after mandatory menu labeling in restaurants in King County, Washington.American journal of public health · 2015Observational
- Reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption by providing caloric information: how Black adolescents alter their purchases and whether the effects persist.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Use of calorie information at fast-food and chain restaurants among US adults, 2009.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2014Article
- Statewide dissemination of a rural, non-chain restaurant intervention: adoption, implementation and maintenance.Health education research · 2014Article
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- Comparison of nutrition standards and other recommended procurement practices for improving institutional food offerings in Los Angeles County, 2010-2012.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2013Review
- Calorie postings in chain restaurants in a low-income urban neighborhood: measuring practical utility and policy compliance.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2012Article
- A 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention to improve healthy food and beverage choices.American journal of public health · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe conducted a health impact assessment to quantify the potential impact of a state menu-labeling law on population weight gain in Los Angeles County, California.
methodsWe utilized published and unpublished data to model consumer response to point-of-purchase calorie postings at large chain restaurants in Los Angeles County. We conducted sensitivity analyses to account for uncertainty in consumer response and in the total annual revenue, market share, and average meal price of large chain restaurants in the county.
resultsAssuming that 10% of the restaurant patrons would order reduced-calorie meals in response to calorie postings, resulting in an average reduction of 100 calories per meal, we estimated that menu labeling would avert 40.6% of the 6.75 million pound average annual weight gain in the county population aged 5 years and older. Substantially larger impacts would be realized if higher percentages of patrons ordered reduced-calorie meals or if average per-meal calorie reductions increased.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that mandated menu labeling could have a sizable salutary impact on the obesity epidemic, even with only modest changes in consumer behavior.
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