I don't know if this public health education method is doing any good, but I did manage to snag a calorie button at a recent baseball game.
I went to a Mets vs. Cubs game at Citifield Sunday night (Cubs 10, Mets 6, 11 innings). While everyone else was engrossed in the game, I was distracted by the vendors.
They wore calorie label buttons!
I managed to get one.
Is anyone evaluating this public health education method?
Whether it does any good or not, I wish I could have gotten the button for peanuts: 960 calories!
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Marion Nestle is a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is the author of Food Politics, Safe Food, What to Eat, and Pet Food Politics.