{"id":226424,"date":"2010-01-25T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001254"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:00:03","slug":"you-ignore-calorie-info-for-yourself-but-not-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226424","title":{"rendered":"You Ignore Calorie Info For Yourself, But Not Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/1-25-2010%209-57-12%20AM-thumb-240x173-36309.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Parents apparently don&#8217;t do a great job choosing lower-calorie options for themselves when faced with calorie information on menu boards &#8212; but they do make low cal choices for their kids, says a new study.<\/p>\n<p>From Reuters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On average, parents whose menus did not list calories chose a meal of about 670 calories, while those who did have that information chose a meal of 570 calories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One hundred calories may seem like a small amount, but over time it could make a significant difference,&#8221; said Dr. Pooja Tandon, a pediatrician at the University of Washington, who led the study. For example, she said, an extra 100 calories per day in adults can lead to 10 extra pounds in a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Do you do this? Why?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,583808,00.html\">Parents Cut Kids&#8217; Calories When Menus are Labeled<\/a> [Fox News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents apparently don&#8217;t do a great job choosing lower-calorie options for themselves when faced with calorie information on menu boards &#8212; but they do make low cal choices for their kids, says a new study. From Reuters: On average, parents whose menus did not list calories chose a meal of about 670 calories, while those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}