Nutrition
Great List of Fast Food Restaurants and their Nutrition
I ran across this list from the Consumerist about Fast Food Restaurants and Nutrition.
It’s a great list describing what Fast Food Restaurants make it easy to find the Nutritional information.
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I know recently that there has been some talk about New York City law requiring Fast Food Restaurants to post their nutrition information on their menus. [...]
I ran across this list from the Consumerist about Fast Food Restaurants and Nutrition.
It’s a great list describing what Fast Food Restaurants make it easy to find the Nutritional information.
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I know recently that there has been some talk about New York City law requiring Fast Food Restaurants to post their nutrition information on their menus. I am totally against it. Here’s why?
I think it should be for ALL restaurants. Seriously, why single out Fast Food Restaurants. I think all restaurants should post on the menu calorie, fat, protein, and carbohydrate data.
For those people who think it will clutter the menu, it won’t Graphic Designers are expert at creating quality designs with information, just see Edward Tufte if you need to.
For those people who say it will cost too much money and make small businesses go out of business. That’s a load of crock. New Business and technologies are available to fill the role of making it easier to analyze food for nutritional purposes. As this becomes a requirement across the board, the market will make it cheaper.
I am usually against the government telling us what to do. In this case, requiring nutritional information on menus at the point of purchase is one place that I think restaurants and cafes will not do until forced to.
I suggest we all write our public servants (senators, mayors, governors, trustees, etc..) asking them to enact a law that requires all restaurants to put calorie, fat, protein, and carbs on all items on all menus.
What do you think?
You Don’t Diet?
Ever looked up the meaning of the word diet? Well here it is from Websters dictionary
Main Entry: 1di·et
1 a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed b : habitual nourishment c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d : a regimen of [...]
Ever looked up the meaning of the word diet? Well here it is from Websters dictionary
Main Entry: 1di·et
1 a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed b : habitual nourishment c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d : a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one’s weight <going on a diet>
2 : something provided or experienced repeatedly <a diet of Broadway shows and nightclubs — Frederick Wyatt>
I used to say that I don’t diet. Really? How could that have been? I didn’t regularly eat food and drink? Well, if that’s the case, where did the extra 20 pounds come from? Read the rest of this entry
Salad vs. Burger, What Should you pick?
I am amazed how much calories can be added to salads.
The Consumerist wrote about the myth of salads.
The salads didn’t seem to be a whole lot healthier than some of the regular sized sandwiches. Who knew that eating a full portion of, say, the BK Tendercrisp salad would result in consuming 210 more calories than [...]
I am amazed how much calories can be added to salads.
The Consumerist wrote about the myth of salads.
The salads didn’t seem to be a whole lot healthier than some of the regular sized sandwiches. Who knew that eating a full portion of, say, the BK Tendercrisp salad would result in consuming 210 more calories than if you’d simply ordered a Whopper Jr.?
It’s a great reminder to us all that we have to be mindful of what we eat. A Huge Cheesecake Factory Salad with bacon, cheese, eggs, oil dressing is still a huge amount of calories. The one benefit, is the salad hopefully has more nutrients with other vegetables, but not always. So, What do you pick a Salad or a Burger?
