Health communication and food labelling

2023

• Daley AJ, Kettle VE, Roalfe AK. Implementing physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) food labelling: Views of a nationally representative sample of adults in the United Kingdom. PLoS One, 2023. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290509

• Iris N, Munir F, Daley AJ. Examining young people’s views and understanding of traffic light and physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) food labels. BMC Public Health, 2023. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16019-6

Recent news articles

PACE labelling and calorie intake

• The Telegraph: Food labels could tell you how much exercise is needed to burn off that slice of cake

• Daily Mail: Is THIS how your favourite snacks will look in the future? Obesity experts want to axe traffic light labels in favour of calorie-burning equivalents, which tell you to walk 15 minutes to burn off a chocolate bar

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

  The Sun: CHOCS AWAY Exactly how long it will take to burn off the calories from choc faves including KitKat, Mars and Twirl

• Daily Mail: Strap on your hiking boots TODAY! Six-hour stroll is needed to burn off just one Easter egg, expert says

• The Conversation: It could take 12 hours of walking to burn off your Christmas dinner

• Daily Mail: Burn off that Christmas dinner... with a 12-hour, 50-mile walk! 

• The Times: To burn off Christmas dinner just go jogging... for six hours

• Evening Standard: Twelve hours of walking needed to burn off average Christmas dinner

• The Economist: How society needs to revamp food packaging to beat obesity 

• HCM People: Amanda Daley

• New Food: Food labels should include physical activity calorie equivalent, says study

• BBC News: 'Four hours to walk off pizza calories' warning works, experts say 

• The Guardian: Exercise advice on food labels could help to tackle the obesity crisis 

• Sky News: Food labels should say how much exercise is needed to burn off the calories, new study  

Videos, blogs and podcasts

PACE labelling and health

• Physical Activity Researcher podcast: Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent Labelling of Food: Does it Work?

• NCSEM public lecture: Should the government include physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) labelling on food and drinks to decrease excessive calorie consumption?

• Channel 4: How to Beat the Fat

• Bloomberg Quick Take: Forget Calorie Counting. Food Labels With Exercise Quotas May Be More Effective

• ITV News: Food labels showing exercise needed to burn calories ‘could help tackle obesity’ 

• BBC Breakfast: Calories & Food Labels

• The acceptability and usefulness of physical activity calorie equivalent food labelling in young people. Funded by UKRI/ESRC. Led by Natalia Iris.
• The effects of physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) labelling on hot beverage transactions from vending machines: stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial (PACE-VEND). Funded by NIHR. Led by Tory Kettle and Amanda Daley.