[reaganaut1]

Cool. I want a chocolate chip cookie.

[ConservativeDude]

New York City officials estimated that a local law requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information about their menu items, which took effect in 2008, would reduce the number of obese city residents by at least 150,000 over five years.”

Typical government methodology....and the result here in the real world will also be typical....

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Passing a law “posting” the calorie contents of fast food is only going to reduce the number of people reading the contents.

[Uri’el-2012]

The article starts with a false assumption.

Grams of carbohydrates cause more weight gain than number of calories.

[WackySam]

At a 170 lbs, I can’t eat over 2,500 calories a day without gaining weight- and I cycle 150-350 miles a week.

[svcw]

Ok, so the bottom line is still: eat less, move more and everyone is different, when it comes to losing weight.

[rolling_stone]

Obamacare will make me lose weight, my wallet gets lighter every day...

[dila813]

And the health care bill was built with the old math too, they think they are going to be cutting obesity and saving money as well.

[savedbygrace]

New York City officials estimated that a local law requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information about their menu items, which took effect in 2008, would reduce the number of obese city residents by at least 150,000 over five years. That law was a model for a national measure included in the recently passed health-care bill. But the estimate of obesity reduction was built on the old calorie math.

And on the ridiculous idea that the obese will be dissuaded from eating what they want to eat just because the calorie information for menu items is available to read.

"Oh dear. I see the triple chocolate mocha cake ala mode is 2,378 calories. I shan't have so many calories as that, my good man. I shan't."

Yeah, right.

[aruanan]

But new research—based on studies of volunteers whose calorie consumption is observed in laboratory settings, rather than often-unreliable food diaries—suggests that the body's self-regulatory mechanisms tamp down the effects of changes in diet or behavior.

The self-regulatory aspects of metabolism have been known for many decades. The ability to adjust intake spontaneously to compensate for over or under-eating relative to one's caloric needs is something that appears to erode with age. Many years ago groups of young and old males were either overfed or underfed to provoke weight gain or loss and then studied afterwards. The younger males spontaneously ate less or more over the succeeding months to regain their pre-study weight. The older men (these were well past middle-aged) stayed either over or underweight.

[PoloSec]

The Government solution to weight problems: You must be weighed every month by a designated Gov’t physician. If it is determined you should weigh 170lbs, then you will be taxed for every pound over 170. conversely you will also be taxed for every lb under 170. This would serve the common good of all Americans and further reduce the cost of Obamacare. sic..

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Buy a pedometer. It tells you how many steps you take (and converts it into miles), and how many calories you burn off. You have to walk more than you think to burn off a certain number of calories. Having the pedometer makes it fun.