drink labels and “soda taxes” — do seem to help, other studies presented at the same meeting showed.
In one study, researchers led by Anna Grummon, of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, gave 400 soda-loving adults $10 and asked them to spend it in a mock convenience store.
One group of shoppers were sent to a store where the sodas had prominent health warnings emblazoned on their labels; while the other group went shopping in a store where sodas didn’t have such labeling.
The result? Folks sent to the “warning labels” store bought an average of about 110 calories’ worth of sugary beverages, compared to 143 calories among shoppers sent to the store without such warnings.
The researchers concluded that implementing policies that require sugar-sweetened beverages to carry
