Will This Help Us Make Healthier Choices at Restaurants?

Now that chain restaurant menus list how many calories are in each dish, it's harder to justify eating certain foods anymore (we're talking to you ,460-calorie scone from Starbucks). But a study, presented by Texas Christian University researchers at the Experimental Biology meeting in April 2013, found that people make even healthier choices if, instead of seeing the calorie count, they're shown how much exercise it takes to burn off what they're considering eating.

Maybe one day, menus will list how many minutes you'll need to log on the rowing machine to erase that scone (48 minutes with vigorous effort, for the record). Until then, here's a quick guide for you (all calorie calculations are based on a 140-pound woman).

- by Melissa Walker

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