NYC May Ask (fast food) Restaurants to List Calories right up on their big menus, next to the $ cost. Will it, and the trans fat prohibition, happen? I hope so. I think the general public has shown that we can’t handle making smart health choices. But will listing the calories really help, will people not buy that triple cheeseburger and super-huge fry if they see how many calories it is? Don’t know. But they can’t go around saying, “I didn’t know.” On a personal level, I’ve been counting my calories since late July and looking for trans fat info since before then. Many of the restaurants that have nutritional facts available don’t make them very easily available. I’d love to be able to look at a menu–any menu–and know exactly what I can eat when I only have 1000 calories left in my budget. (Every time I consider my eating habits in terms of budget I remember that the general public in the US have problems with money as well…)
And hey, even if the proposals don’t follow through in NYC, Kentucky Fried Chicken to switch to no trans fat frying oil. Pressure can be a fabulous thing.
In unrelated linkage, Snopes has a great Halloween page up. Down with urban legends.
Eric returned safe and sound and not too burnt after nationals. Actually, it sounds like the fields were browner than usual and it was too cool to do much swimming. Eric informs me that I didn’t miss much, but along with the usual swag, he brought me a Furious hat. A perfect gift indeed, because as much as I would have wanted one, I wouldn’t have bought it myself. And my Nebraska hats are looking pretty ratty.
Must. Work. Today. …
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