Text messaging can be used as a means of communicating the basics of daily eating requirements that, despite public service efforts, often go overlooked, and yet are at the root of making food choices, a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found.
Nutrition information labels are useless, they say, if consumers don't understand how many calories they need in a day and ignore the 2,000 calorie per day benchmark on which they are based, which might or might not apply to them, but is the framework provided by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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