Wow! We're Eating 78 Calories Fewer A Year Than Before
Can you believe it? The food industry -- that's companies like Kellog, General Mills, Pepsico and Hershey -- claim to have slashed trillions of calories from their foods, according to USA Today. That's 78 calories per person -- an average cookie or a small apple (you can't be serious!). The companies say they have cut 64 trillion calories from their products -- four times what they were supposed to. The 2010 pledge taken by 16 companies — including General Mills, Campbell Soup, ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods, Kellogg, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Hershey — was to cut 1 trillion calories by 2012 and 1.5 trillion calories by 2015, writes Mary Clare Jalonik. But what does this mean for the average person? Well, e ven though the companies that made the commitment represent most of the nation's most well-known food companies, they sold only around a third of all packaged foods and beverages at the beginning of the study, Jalonik reports. "Missing are many off-label bra...