Agreed, but I do think the government should go first. How about the provide us with a label about how much waste is in the system, what % of my $ goes to graft and, oh yeah, country of origin might be a good idea here too.
Posted on 08/03/2008 8:25:52 AM PDT by mngran2
New Yorkers have been in the throes of sticker shock since this spring when the Big Apple became the first city in the country to implement a law forcing chain restaurants to post the calorie count of each food in the same size and font as the price.
Restaurants have not exhausted their legal challenges, but the city will start fining violators up to $2,000 beginning Friday, say officials with the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
While some sit-down chains and fast-food eateries are waiting until the last minute, coffee shops like Starbucks — home of the 470 calorie raspberry scone and 610 calorie cookie — have been replacing their menu boards and adding calorie tags to pastries in recent weeks. The result: Do a little eavesdropping in a New York City restaurant, and you may think you’ve stumbled into an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
At T.G.I. Friday’s, one of the few sit-down chain restaurants to have already added calorie counts to menus, a group of young women gasped as they studied the menu, barely able to find a meal under 1,000 calories, never mind an appetizer or dessert. Both Stephanie Fowler and Lindsay Green asked about the suddenly popular Classic Sirloin — at 290 calories, it was one of the lowest calorie items on the menu — but learned the restaurant ran out by the time the dinner rush started.
Outside the Forest Hills’ Dunkin’ Donuts, Juan Restrepo, the 45-year-old owner of a construction company, said he was quitting corn muffins — 510 calories! — this time for good.
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Unless you eat some complex carbs along with it... I think the "sirloin" will just sit and rot in your intestines...
Too much infomation?
I have been trying to drop about 15 pounds and get in shape. Why is it that I am sympathetic to this?
"Mental Hygiene" ???
I have no problem with this. Full disclosure. Now let’s mandate country-of-origin labels on ALL food. Not just fish.
“”Mental Hygiene” ???”
Really. Strange choice of words.
Maybe it’s like the old saying, “clean mind, clean body, take your pick.”
They should also post information about how much calories are burned by the simple act of walking or jogging.
Stupid liberals.
I think it refers to well washed brains :)
I have no problem with this at all. As a matter of fact, this should be done everywhere. Disclosure is the conservative solution to this problem. The liberal tact would be mandate low calorie items on the menu. Every diner deserves to know what he/she is eating.
BK Whopper w/cheese 770
Large fries 500
Medium diet Coke 0 (have to cut back somewhere)
Total 1270 calories
I think it's an excellent idea for restaurants to provide that information, in fact I often choose Subway because they provide that information voluntarily, but I can't imagine what makes the city think they have a right to order restaurateurs (the owners of private property) to comply - except the typical politician's inflated sense of self-importance. I'd love to see all of NYC's restaurants follow the letter of the law in a manner that would give the do-gooders a heart attack faster than an oversized plate of Fettucini Alfredo. Quite a few high end restaurants have menus with no prices listed, and I would cheer if the rest deleted their prices and added a note: "prices removed to comply with the meddling of Section 81.50 of the New York City Health Code." If neither the price nor the calories are listed, then a lawyer could reasonably argue that the letter of the law has been followed. No doubt the restaurants would eventually lose, since you can't fight City Hall, but they'd have a good time playing with the regulators.
http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/20-Worst-Foods/index.php
America’s 20 Worst Restaurant Meals (caloriewise)
It's pretty disgusting when you read how hard you have to exercise to burn off what it took you minutes to eat. A 180 pound man burns about 100 calories a mile at a brisk 3.5mph. You'd have to walk 6 miles and kill two hours of your day just to burn off that one cookie.
If it's under 1,000 cal, it ain't a meal.
Well I guess if you consider paying attorneys by the hour a good time. Sounds about as fun to me as burning money. Wait...it's the same thing.
Cholesterol is not good for you, either. So why not just ban food altogether?
Many folks will argue with you that Cholesterol in foods (meat, eggs...) is NOT dangerous... think of it this way... our ancestors would have all died off because they ate a diet rich in meat... the Eskimos would all be dead and their diet is primarily meat.
They should also post information about how much calories are burned by the simple act of walking or jogging.
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Approximately, 100 calories per mile.
Agreed, but I do think the government should go first. How about the provide us with a label about how much waste is in the system, what % of my $ goes to graft and, oh yeah, country of origin might be a good idea here too.
Total 1270 calories
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To walk that off ( 100 Kcal./hr.) is 12.7 miles of walking. At 3 to 4 miles per hour, that is 3 to 4 or more hours of walking.
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