According to the study which used data from the US, female consumers who consult food labels weigh nearly 4kg less.
Along with the Universities of Tennessee, Arkansas (USA) and the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural Finance Research, the University of Santiago de Compostela has participated in a study on the relationship between reading the food label and obesity.
The results indicated that the body mass index (BMI) of those consumers who read that label is 1.49 points lower than those who never consider such information when doing their food shopping. This translates as a reduction of 3.91kg for an American woman measuring 1.62cm and weighing 74kg.
The city-dwelling population (49% of the sample) takes nutritional information into account the most. This is also the case for those with high school education (40% of those surveyed) and universities studies (17% of the total sample).
According to sex, 58% of men either habitually or always read the information contained within nutritional labels. However, this figure stands at 74% for women.
The study also touches on significant ethnic differences. In this sense, the white female consumers see the greatest reduction in the body mass of around 1.76 points.
Source: NIAFR
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