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SynthesisThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2011

Calorie menu labeling on quick-service restaurant menus: an updated systematic review of the literature.

Jonas J Swartz, Danielle Braxton, Anthony J Viera

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02804503 (The Effect of Menu Labels on Food Choices in Hispanics), which is not on this map. Cited by 74 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02804503 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2014, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of Menu Labels on Food Choices in Hispanics

TypeinterventionalSponsorTexas Christian UniversityRan2014 to 2015Enrolled372ConditionsFood SelectionArmsCalorie Labels, Exercise Labels, No Labels
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 255 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Physical activity equivalent labeling vs. calorie labeling: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018
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  10. Best practices in policy approaches to obesity prevention.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonas J SwartzPublic Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7461, USA. jonas_swartz@med.unc.edu
Danielle Braxton
Anthony J Viera
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nutrition labels are one strategy being used to combat the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 mandates that calorie labels be added to menu boards of chain restaurants with 20 or more locations. This systematic review includes seven studies published since the last review on the topic in 2008. Authors searched for peer-reviewed studies using PUBMED and Google Scholar. Included studies used an experimental or quasi-experimental design comparing a calorie-labeled menu with a no-calorie menu and were conducted in laboratories, college cafeterias, and fast food restaurants. Two of the included studies were judged to be of good quality, and five of were judged to be of fair quality. Observational studies conducted in cities after implementation of calorie labeling were imprecise in their measure of the isolated effects of calorie labels. Experimental studies conducted in laboratory settings were difficult to generalize to real world behavior. Only two of the seven studies reported a statistically significant reduction in calories purchased among consumers using calorie-labeled menus. The current evidence suggests that calorie labeling does not have the intended effect of decreasing calorie purchasing or consumption.

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Food LabelingRestaurantsEnergy IntakeFood PreferencesHumansObesityOverweightPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActUnited States

Identifiers

PMID22152038
PMCPMC3254594
OpenAlexW2104095846

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