“It’s important for us to continue to show consumers, policymakers, and industry how small changes can lead to big benefits,” lead author and PhD candidate Mengxi Du said.
on restaurant menus — and new research shows this information has potentially saved the lives and wallets of thousands of Americans., found calorie counts have prevented at least 28,000 cancer cases linked to obesity and 16,700 cancer deaths over a lifetime, while saving a staggering $2.8 billion in healthcare and societal costs.
Some 40% of new cancer diagnoses are said to be obesity-related, contributing to more than 43% of direct cancer-care costs. Those numbers are slashed when calorie counts are accessible, the study authors found.chain restaurants to post calorie data on their menus in 2008. Federal rules for chain restaurants took effect in 2018.
To build its model, the Tufts research team used cancer statistics, as well as data from a national survey of 235 million American adults over the age of 20 from 2015 to 2016.
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