And, if you leave off the mayo---that saves about 25 cals.
Health activists in the U.S. have been working to try to pass laws requiring restaurants to publish this type of information for some time. New York City and Philiadelphia both passed this type of legislation in 2008 and the state of New Jersey is considering similar legislation. It has been even appeared in a version of the Health Care bill currently making its way through the US Senate.
I don't think the government, on any level, should be counseling people on their dietary choices. If a person wants to eat 500 calories a day or 5,000 calories a day is not the government's concern. Those kind of decisions are between the person and their doctor or dietitian.
What do you foodies think of restaurants that print calorie info on the menus? Do you use that information to make choices about what you’re eating or is it a waste of the restaurant’s money to research and offer that information?
And, if you leave off the mayo---that saves about 25 cals.
A worthless study. Many years ago, I did epidemiology grunt work at Yale Med. The methodology used in this study would have been laughed over to the main campus and the sociology department.
I learned in my late teens that calories mean nothing. If I have a weight probem and eat 2000 calories of sirloin steak one day, and the next day I eat 2000 calories of pizza, guess which day I will gain weight?
LOL!
I like the idea. I may still eat whatever I like, but at least I’ll know the nutrition info about it. I do Weight Watchers, and in order to figure out my ‘points’, I need total calories, total fat grams and total fiber. Sodium would also be nice, but I don’t count that, because I don’t need to do so.
Most folks don’t eat everything at one sitting, anyway, so they’d likely be eating half of the total.