Put the calorie exercise equivalent on food labels?

Will telling people how much exercise that biscuit equates to help to combat obesity?
23 December 2019

Interview with

Nadeem Gabbani, The Naked Scientists

OBESITY-CARTOON

Measuring an obese stomach

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We can’t rely just on a healthy helping of art to keep us in good shape: diet matters too, and the evidence is that we’re all eating far too much. Cue a paper from Loughborough University’s Amanda Daley exploring whether it helps to slap onto the packet the amount of exercise you’d need to take to work off the calories in a given food item. With his eye on the Christmas dinner table, Nadeem Gabbani has been taking a look...

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