Study: Parents May Order Less For Kids If Menu Includes Exercise Needed To Burn It Off.

reports that a new study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests that parents “might order fewer calories for their children if menus included calorie counts or information on how much walking would be required to burn off the calories in foods.” For the study, researchers “surveyed 1,000 parents of children aged 2 to 17 years.” The parents “were asked to look at mock menus and make choices about food they would order for their kids.” Investigators found that with no calorie numbers, “parents mock-ordered...an average of 1,294 calories worth of food for their kids,” but when the “calorie or exercise information was included, parents ordered 1,060 to 1,099 calories per meal for their kids, according to the study.” http://consumer.healthday.com/kids-health-information-23/adolescents-and-teen-health-news-719/calorie-counts-on-menus-may-mean-fewer-calories-for-kids-695751.html