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"There&amp;#x27;s a lot of nutritional info on food labels, but now researchers are suggesting that adding another kind of number might help people make healthy-eating choices.... Researchers observed West Baltimore teenagers who were choosing between three sugary sodas: one displayed the amount of calories of the drink; another showed calorie counts as a percent of recommended daily calorie intake; and the third had info about how long you&amp;#x27;d have to jog in order to burn it off. While all three convinced many of the teens to buy something else (most got water instead!), the research suggests that the &amp;quot;here&amp;#x27;s how long you&amp;#x27;d have to exercise&amp;quot; labels were the most effective. The focus of this study was on teenagers--who might look at food-buying very differently from adults--but the researchers suspect the results could have a wider-reaching appeal: &amp;quot;My sense would be if you did this sort of study in a group of people for whom nutrition or fitness might be more important, you might have a bigger effect. ... If you&amp;#x27;re more interested in changing your behavior, you&amp;#x27;re more likely to pay attention to this sort of information,&amp;quot; said researcher Sara Bleich. But what do you think: good idea? Some have criticized it--BlissTree calls it &amp;quot;dumbing down&amp;quot; nutrition, and that the labels could even serve as triggers for people with eating disorders--while others, like the Washington Post, say that the business of calories is confusing and it&amp;#x27;s smart to turn a label into something we can all understand. Hmm. What do you think? Would a food label telling you how much you&amp;#x27;d need to exercise have any impact on you? And what numbers mean the most to you when you look at a food label, anyway: calories? Carbs? Fat? More food label fun: * An Ally In Sorting Out Nutrition Information Labels * Healthy Eating: New Quick-Read Food Nutrition Labels Coming Soon * How Obsessed Are You With Food Labels? More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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