Researchers urge Australia to adopt food labels estimating exercise needed to ‘burn off’

Researchers say physical activity calorie equivalent' labelling helps people consume less but eating disorder experts sound caution

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Labels on junk food such as chocolate bars could show how much exercise is needed to work off the calories - are being proposed by researchers as a way of countering Australia's growing obesity rate.

English researchers who developed the physical activity calorie equivalent" (Pace) labelling system, which suggests how many minutes of walking or running would burn off" the food after it's eaten, will present their research at an obesity conference in Melbourne next week, saying it shows the labelling encourages people to consume fewer calories when compared to other systems.

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