TY - JOUR AU - Platkin, Charles AU - Yeh, Ming-Chin AU - Hirsch, Kimberly AU - Wiewel, Ellen Weiss AU - Lin, Chang-Yun AU - Tung, Ho-Jui AU - Castellanos, Victoria H. PY - 2014 DA - 2014/09/24 TI - The effect of menu labeling with calories and exercise equivalents on food selection and consumption JO - BMC Obesity SP - 21 VL - 1 IS - 1 AB - Better techniques are needed to help consumers make lower calorie food choices. This pilot study examined the effect of menu labeling with caloric information and exercise equivalents (EE) on food selection. Participants, 62 females, ages 18-34, recruited for this study, ordered a fast food meal with menus that contained the names of the food (Lunch 1 (L1), control meal). One week later (Lunch 2 (L2), experiment meal), participants ordered a meal from one of three menus with the same items as the previous week: no calorie information, calorie information only, or calorie information and EE. SN - 2052-9538 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40608-014-0021-5 DO - 10.1186/s40608-014-0021-5 ID - Platkin2014 ER -