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NPR’s Alison Aubrey, with a story discussing our research published last week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0and the impact on individuals and food and beverage companies: [Listen to the story here<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It just might be the dawn of a new era in American eating. Two-thirds of us are now more likely to go for foods marketed as lower-calorie and “better-for-you,” and that means we’re finally eating fewer calories.<\/p>\n

As we’ve\u00a0reported<\/a>,<\/strong> 16 companies, including General Mills, Kraft and Nestle, have removed 6.4 trillion calories from the marketplace. The calorie cuts \u2014 tracked by the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation \u2014 are part of a nationwide effort to tackle the obesity epidemic.<\/p>\n

And a new paper\u00a0published<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/em>\u00a0finds that as a results of company’s trimming calories, Americans are cutting back on salty snacks and sugary treats.<\/p>\n

“We found that families with children cut 101 calories per day [per person] in their purchases,” researcher\u00a0Barry Popkin<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, tells us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the articles referenced in the NPR piece, published in AJPM here<\/a> (<\/strong>calories sold) and here<\/a> <\/strong>(calories purchased). Access to the accompanying commentaries is available here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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