A Chocolate Bar Is 250 Calories. Can’t be so bad, thinks the greed, and the foil is ripped open. But what if the packaging contained significantly more specific instructions? If it would be, how tedious it would be, the calories again untrain? Many people would thoroughly think about whether the bolt is its low calorie value. A new study at least.
The concept of the so-called PACE Food Labelling is only a few years old, the first study was published in 2012. Accordingly, about a little man on the packaging emblazoned, and either goes or runs would be in addition to the Calories. In addition, the time it takes for an average person, to burn the consumed calories is. Some Examples:
- For the 253 calories of a Snickers bar would have the male 46 minutes or 24 minutes of Jogging.
- The 139 calories from a can of coke to burn, it would have to 25 minutes, or 13 minutes of Jogging.
- And for the 886 calories of frozen salami pizza would be 161 minutes and 84 minutes of Jogging due.
The complete Train is of course neither necessary nor practicable – the body needs energy in order to keep all processes from the brain to the digestive Running. The goal of the concept is rather to give a sense of what it means to the Calories. In Germany alone, two-thirds of men and more than half of the women are, according to the Robert Koch Institute overweight. The reason for this is simple: Many take more calories than your body burns.
Examinations: every Day, almost 200 calories saved
Even if the deterrent effect of the minutes, sounds information on Cola and co. plausible, scientifically, it was hardly. To change this, crawled a group of researchers led by Amanda Daley of the Loughborough University in the UK, databases and Social Media channels, according to all the studies she could find on the subject.
In the end, the scientists had a list of 15 studies with a total of 4600 participants that they were evaluating. Most of the results were positive: on average, consumed participants 65 calories less per meal, if the calories were spent as a sports minutes and not a different or no marking was used. In the case of three meals could result a difference of almost 200 calories, write the researchers in the “Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health”.
However, many studies under laboratory conditions have been carried out, investigations in real life – for example in supermarkets or Restaurants – must follow, the researchers write.
Why buy, if it brings hardly anything?
Apart from this, the scientists hope to gain a further advantage from the marking. You could remind people constantly of how important movement is. If this works, however, is not yet investigated. As well, it is conceivable that the sport could deter icons. Why buy, if you burn only a few calories?
This question can clearly be answered. Even small calorie savings can help you lose weight, if you can make it through you. Who creates it around permanently, every day around 100 to save calories, you can lose weight for over a year, seen more than two kilograms. Add to that the positive effects of exercise on the heart, muscles, bones and many other parts of the body.
In English the “Huffington Post” suggests independent researchers in addition to the danger that labelling people with eating disorders, drive, often, excessive sports, could have a negative affect. In addition, the label a go to little to the nutrient composition.
In fact, calories from tell nothing about how many vitamins or fiber stuck in a food. In this regard, the Nutriscore could help currently, several companies in Germany. The System calculates from the content of sugar, fat and salt as well as ingredients such as dietary fiber or proteins to a value of one to five, on a scale from green to red. In comparison to the now-discussed movement minutes marking but he has a significant disadvantage: It is much more abstract.