New York, NY – The Board of Health today voted to require restaurant chains operating in New York City to prominently display calorie information on their menus and menu boards. The new regulation, which takes effect on March 31, 2008, applies to any New York City chain restaurant that has 15 or more outlets nationwide– about 10% of all New York City restaurants.
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Providing customers with prominently displayed calorie information at the time of purchase will help guide informed and healthier food choices, an important step in addressing the obesity epidemic that now affects millions of New York City residents.
“Obesity and diabetes are the only major health problems that are getting worse in New York City,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, New York City Health Commissioner. “Today, the Board of Health passed a regulation that will help New Yorkers make healthier choices about what to eat; living longer, healthier lives as a result.”
It’s just left-wing anti-Walmart type of hysteria. Why is it more important to have nutritional info about McDonald’s hamburgers than Kosher Delight?
We eat like pigs.
Ever go to a jewish wedding?
You eat a full course shmorg and then wait for the groom to break the glass then you get happy and eat more again.
Does this make sense tat at a 6 hour jewish wedding you dance for an hour and eat for four hours non stop?
Ever go to kiddush? Eat kugel, cholent, herring, fish take a 5 minute walk home and then eat another full meal…..
We eat like pigs. Eat right, feel good and lose some weight and feel even better!
Good luck.
Chaya
think it will actually help? did labels on cigarettes help, or was it the increasing cost, no smoking at the workplace, restaurants, or even bars, and the social attitudes toward smoking that changed behaviors. forcing 10% of the restaurants to label their menu boards will not change eating habits.