The combination of a symbol and a numeric calorie count on a menu is the most effective way to influence patrons to select lower-calorie items. A little-noticed provision of the Affordable Care Act ...

Food product labels that include traffic light symbols to convey health-related information may be more effective in helping consumers resist high-calorie foods compared to information-based labels.

BOSTON (CBS) - "Red light, green light" isn't just a kids' game, but it's a tactic one local hospital is using to encourage healthier eating by its employees. And according to a new study, it's ...

Should food products be labeled with traffic light symbols to make health-related information on ingredients easier to understand? This question has remained a subject of debate. Now researchers at ...

Should food products be labeled with traffic light symbols to make health-related information on ingredients easier to understand? This question has remained a subject of debate. Now researchers at ...

A new study shows that labeling food choices in a hospital cafeteria with simple 'traffic-light' symbols indicating their relative health value was associated with a reduction in calories purchased by ...

A new study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators released today in JAMA Network Open, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that labeling food ...

We can't give a green light to color-coded food-nutrition labels when the public is still trying to figure out the shades of meaning in the terrorist-threat-level system. Maybe a "traffic light" theme ...

image: Brenna Ellison, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics, says the combination of a symbol and a numeric calorie count on a menu is the most effective way to influence patrons to ...