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Study: Exercise Labels More Effective At Promoting Healthy Eating Than Nutrition Labels | Researchers at Johns Hopkins’s Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that packaging junk food with “exercise labels” that tell consumers “how much exercise is required to burn off the calorie and fat content within the products” led “teenagers to purchase fewer” bad foods. “Providing easily understandable caloric information — particularly in the form of a physical activity equivalent, such as running — may reduce calorie intake from sugar-sweetened beverages and increase water consumption among adolescents,” the study found.