New law for chain resturants

As you may already know, the new health care bill recently signed by our President also addressed another market...resturants.

More than 200,000 fast food and other chain restaurants will have to include calorie counts on menus, menu boards and even drive-thrus.  The new law, which applies to any restaurant with 20 or more locations, directs the Food and Drug Administration to create a new national standard for menu labeling, superseding a growing number of state and city laws. 

The idea is to make sure that customers process the calorie information as they are ordering. Many restaurants currently post nutritional information in a hallway, on a hamburger wrapper or on their website. The new law will make calories immediately available for most items, but will it have an effect on the choices consumers make?

Would you think twice about ordering that Mocha Frappucchino at Starbucks if you knew before-hand that it packed a whopping 420 calories?  Would you steer away from that McDonald's Angus Bacon & cheese burger if you saw on the menu that it had 790 calories?  Would you even care?

Send me a comment...I'm really curious to know if it would make you think twice about making healthier decisions.


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♥Fit~NOW~Girl♥