Just for the fun of it, I went out to a website of a company in the county that will have to post their calories now.
Here's how they describe one item on their menu:
One Serving of Fries (approx. half of regular order)
This is from Five Guys. They have 2 sizes of fries that you can order, Regular or Large. The line that I'm listing is the third option that they have on their site to tell you that even when you order the smallest size of this, you're only supposed to eat half of them... but it's what the people want.
I just don't think it needs to be MANDATED to be put up.
read the writing on the wall......national healthcare (oxymoron of course) as Pelosi sees it-----"preventative, diet before diabetes blah blah blah...." while I dont disagree with this and it is true,,, THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT/RESPONSIBILITY in this realm......
free healthcare = a different more invasive lifestyle
what country?
THAT BROAD PELOSI NEEDS TO GO....and take her hen house with her and all the roosters that service it......
you see, Savage, her husband and the rest of the farm animals need to beat feet...........find their own COMMUNE(IST) and 'live for others'----dont you dare legislate MY LIFE
GET OFF MY BACK
What's REALLY funny,,,,is they dont want us eating fats/salt etc.......but-----go ahead and have an abortion paid for by someone else.....WHAT A BUNCH OF F'EN MORONS........
GET THEM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Re March 10 article, “County votes to post calories”: The Schenectady County Legislature deserves high praise for passage of Local Law 2-2010, requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information on menus and menu boards. Six counties and New York City have similar laws. Studies in New York City have shown that when consumers see calorie counts on menu boards, they order fewer calories. The Schenectady County Legislature has taken an important step by guaranteeing that consumers have the information to make healthy choices when eating out. One-third of New York’s children are overweight or obese; two-thirds of adults are. Obesity leads to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. All are major risk factors for heart disease, New York’s and the nation’s No. 1 killer. The American Heart Association endorses menu labeling since it gives consumers a tool to choose to improve their health. The obesity crisis has become so severe that for the first time in history, children are predicted to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Knowledge is power, and knowing how many calories are in food items can give people the power to help fight this epidemic.
ANNE SAILE Ballston Lake The writer is chairwoman of the American Heart Association’s Capital Region Advisory Board.
My husband and myself took my mom to lunch at the Blue Ribbon Diner yesterday. Sitting at a table next to us were two women. They ordered one lunch to split between the two of them and they had scales with containers to weigh the portions each one shared.
I realize that some people must be strict on their food intake for medical or personal reasons. My husband and I consider eating out as fun. We view it as escaping the everyday hum-drum of life. If we had to bring scales or count every calorie when going out to eat, it wouldn't be fun for us anymore. But that's just us!
Vee hav VAYS of making you PAY for dat vun!!!!!!!!! NO MORE FUN EATING OUT! NOW YOU WILL DO SEET-UPS AFTER EACH MEAL OR GO TO ZEE CONZENTRATION CAMPPPPP!
So true GB......so very scary true....so very sickening true.....so sadly, very very sadly true.........the only thing lacking is the actual reasoning edumacation that needs to back up the legislation....of course 'they wont go there'......
they can all GET OFF MY BACK.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Calorie counts don’t change most people’s dining-out habits, experts say
Oh, calories. There are so many of you at the Cheesecake Factory.
The Firecracker Salmon appetizer, rolled in spinach, deep-fried in a crisp wrapper, served with sweet hot chili sauce: 660 calories. The Orange Chicken, another deep-fryer visitor, soaked in spicy orange sauce: 1,890 calories.
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Questions about the effectiveness of calorie disclosure come as the federal government is finalizing regulations to nationalize labeling in chain restaurants next year as part of a measure tucked into President Obama’s health-care law. Some chain restaurants are tweaking menus in anticipation, offering more low-calorie meals. Yet several high-cal eateries that operate in Montgomery — including the Cheesecake Factory, Chipotle, Five Guys and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers — report no change in dining habits because of the labels.
“Have we seen a big [drop] in sales? No, not at all,” said Todd Stallings, owner of several Five Guys restaurants in Montgomery, which based its rules on the upcoming federal policy. “When people come to Five Guys, they know we are not cooking their french fries in water.”
Some experts question the wisdom of the labeling policies, even if they agree that people have a right to know the caloric content of what they are ingesting. (Recommended daily calorie intake varies based on age, weight, height and activity levels but is generally 2,500 for men and 2,000 for women.)
Just another government intrusion in our lives and we just sit there and take it "cause it is good for us"
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How does someone like Sue Savage, for instance, have more expertise than I do in knowing what I should eat? I do a lot of reading on the whole weight/diet topic and there is actually a lot of questioning going on among some pretty knowledgeable people, people with advance degrees in medicine, biochemistry and so forth, and a lot of new information is coming out suggesting the whole calories in/ calories expended theory of weight loss is by no means the whole story. So when someone like Sue Savage, for instance, states that consumers MUST have that calorie count right there in their face to help them make "better choices" (I believe that is an exact quote), who is deciding what the best choice consists of? And on what basis? Just for fun, for about a year now, I've been keeping track whenever I enter a Burger King or McDonald's, of the "size" of the patrons relative to to the rest of the population. I seldom eat fast food myself anymore, but I accompany others on a fairly frequent basis. Guess what? The average Mcdonald's customer is thinner than the average random gathering of adults in the area, according to my observations. It's true, you almost never see a truly obese patron in there, or even a fat one. No, they aren't hiding in the drive-through either; I look. Try it yourself. You know where the fattest seem to gather? In the supermarket sections of Walmart. This isn't scientific, but a lot of the people who think they know what we should eat aren't using any more science than I am to arrive at their judgement.
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