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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Have Ya Heard?

If you checked out the New York Times today, imbedded deep in the Health Care Legislation is a new law requiring every chain restaurant with more than 20 locations to clearly post calorie/nutrition info on drive-thru signs and menus. These restaurants have about a year to get this done.
New York is already known to do this, and now Obama would like the rest of the country to catch up. How do you feel about actually knowing how many calories your favorite fast food meal is putting a dent in your daily intake? Would you rather just NOT KNOW? Perhaps not knowing is a blessing in some sense, but I think it's fair to say that we should have the option to know to make wiser decisions about our eating habits. I don't think it will make a big difference in the obesity epidemic, as there are several factors contributing to it, but atleast people will be more aware of how much they are eating!


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