Activity icons 'could help healthy living’
We think a clearer way of making people more mindful of the calories they are consuming is for a food or drink product to also show on the front of the packet a small icon which would visually display just how much activity you would need to do to burn off the calories it contains.
Take, for example, a medium coffee mocha. Who'd have thought that this could contain nearly 300 calories?
We recognise that just to live and breathe we need to consume a certain number of calories every day - for a man that's about 2,500 and for a woman 2,000.
But anything more than this, without a more active lifestyle, could lead us to gain weight.
Possible questions:
- What is the link between running and walking?
- How much exercise do you need to do to burn off the mocha?
- What is the formula to help work out how long you will need to run to burn off a certain number of calories?
- If you run for an hour how many calories does this predict you will burn?
- If you ran for a full 24 hours, how many calories would you use?
Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35981098
