Predicting obesity reduction after implementing warning labels in Mexico: A modeling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In October 2019, Mexico approved a law to establish that nonalcoholic beverages and packaged foods that exceed a threshold for added calories, sugars, fats, trans fat, or sodium should have an "excess of" warning label. We aimed to estimate the expected reduction in the obesity prevalence and obesity costs in Mexico by introducing warning labels, over 5 years, among adults under 60 years of age.

Methods and findings

Baseline intakes of beverages and snacks were obtained from the 2016 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey. The expected impact of labels on caloric intake was obtained from an experimental study, with a 10.5% caloric reduction for beverages and 3.0% caloric reduction for snacks. The caloric reduction was introduced into a dynamic model to estim

SUBMITTER: Basto-Abreu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7386611 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature