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Add to FavoritesMandatory nutritional info on a restaurant menu is a ludicrous suggestion for several key reasons.
Firstly, how would you regulate those restaurants that change their menu daily to bring us the freshest, seasonal food and ingredients? You would be discouraging some of the best restaurants and chefs from practising their art. Daily specials would be a thing of the past as they would need scientific analysis before they could be sold. This would play into the hands of crap-artists like Macdonalds and Burger King; just the very shysters we need to get rid of and stop allowing them to call themselves restaurants.
Secondly , if we need to be told what is and isn't good for us, what does that say for us and our own level of intelligence and education? While I don't doubt that there are many out there who are blissfully ignorant in terms of nutrition believing that eating the lettuce on their KFC is going to save their life, our efforts should be directed to ensuring that people and especially our children are educated properly. Children should be taught from an early age what healthy food is all about. Why stop there though? One of the reasons that we have a junk food and TV dinner generation is that many of the parents are incapable of cooking and preparing proper meals for themselves and their families. Teach the kids to cook properly at schools, I say. It used to be called Home Economics, but was never compulsory. Make it compulsory for one of the secondary or high school years (even just 1 hour a week) and the difference will be felt for years to come.
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Restaurants are being persuaded more and more to please list their nutritional information on their menus. For example, the board of supervisors in some of the larger cities are requiring chain restaurants to post their nutritional facts to their menus and not just the calories .They want complete nutrition facts like fats, carbohydrates, sodium, and sugar.People in New York has started posting the calorie intake , while other states think it would be good if all states required all restaurants to list the nutrition information to their menus.
Several different reasons it could become very helpful to those with people with different taste, dietary requirements, health reasons, especially those with allergies to certain foods.It would help for people to be more aware of these type of things and eliminate having to ask the waiter or service while ordering their meals. For some people, this kind of thing doesn't concern them, for others it is a major issue.Counting your calories and knowing what your eating can add years to your life so, yes , this can be a very good idea to those who are trying to be more health concious in their eating habits.
For diabetics, heart patients,they will surely appreciate this .It will help them select different foods that will be more healthy. I fore see this plan to be so helpful and maybe not too difficult for resturants to the listing the type of oils used and the listing of other ingredients used in their food. Dining out is sometimes so convienient especially while traveling .People need to stay aware of their eating intake even on the road. Choosing foods such as fruits and vegetables are very important to everyone's diet and resturants have been offering more of these selections. While a more healthy selection of foods,people still need to be aware of the intake of what they are eating.
For some time now in supermarkets and fruits stands the requirements are to list the ingredients plus the calorie intake ,fats, sugars, and etc. and what exist in these products before being able to sell these products. This is really giving security to the people or customers whom are purchasing these items what the product contains.Taking a vote on this issue in some people's opinion, the people will benefit more from these suggestions to list the nutritional guide lines to the menus.With this kind of service, it would be a promotional plus also to resturants versus the ones that did not have it. Everyone that has been ask about this issue that has concern about the nutritional facts being posted on the menus has voted yes! The more information we have on what we are eating, the more healthier choices we will make and to that we will have a more healthier world!
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