Menu Calorie Labels In Food Businesses May Prevent Over 9,000 Heart Disease Deaths In England, Study In Lancet Suggests

The new study is unique because it is the first to model how menu calorie labelling impacts obesity, and what its link with cardiovascular disease mortality in England is.

If menu calorie labelling is made mandatory for all English food businesses, about 9,200 CVD deaths could be prevented from 2022 to 2041, according to a modelling study published in The Lancet Public Health. ( Image Source :Playground AI/ABP Live )

Legislation on calorie labelling, which came into force in England on April 6, 2022, makes it mandatory for the country's large food businesses, which are businesses with over 250 employees, to prominently display on the menu the number of kilocalories associated with each meal option, and also show somewhere on the menu the total number of calories a person is recommended to consume in a day. This is to ensure that the people who visit the outlets of those food businesses to eat something can