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"New York City instituted a law a few years ago, requiring major chain restaurants to post the calorie counts for all their food right on their menus. That way, customers would be completely in-the-know that the cheeseburger they were about to order was X number of calories. Great idea, right? Except for one thing... ...apparently, it&amp;#x27;s not making that much of a difference. In fact, teenagers and parents buying food for small children are still ordering up the same number of calories per meal after the listings were posted (teens: 725 calories per meal; parents: 600 calories per meal). The study&amp;#x27;s authors concluded that menu labeling alone wouldn&amp;#x27;t put much of a dent in obesity; that it needed to be in tandem with &amp;quot;other public-health approaches--including participation by food manufacturers and restaurants to create healthier options and reduce advertising to children.&amp;quot; This made me think about the cities that don&amp;#x27;t have this on-menu calorie count (most of them don&amp;#x27;t--mine doesn&amp;#x27;t). We have to do some digging, but the info is out there if we want it. We can still go to a major restaurant&amp;#x27;s website and check out the entire menu&amp;#x27;s nutritional info--plus, there are books and guides galore filled with facts about out-to-eat entr?\uFFFDes. So do you ever read the calorie counts for restaurant items before you go out? Would you like or dislike having nutritional info printed right on the menus at restaurant--do you think it would influence your order, one way or the other? More on nutrition labels: * Calories On The Menu: Good Idea? * Nutrition Label Trivia: What the Heck Is Xanthan Gum? * Why 100-Calorie Snack Packs Might Make You Eat More More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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