03 Jan 2019 --- Foods appear to become less desirable when their calorie content is visible, a Dartmouth College study has found. Among participants, seeing pictures of food with calorie information not only made food less desirable, but it also appeared to change the way the brain responded to the food. Making calorie information available alongside food, via menus, for example, has been on the obesity-fighting agenda for a number of countries, including the UK and the US.