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I vote YES because there is no other way to know all that you are consuming when you sit down to eat a meal. If you were to fix the same meal at home, you could estimate by the ingredients you are putting into each dish. However, you do not know exactly everything that is in the dish at a restaurant. Who really knows except the chef if the dish contains real butter, margarine, low fat, no cholesterol butter? Let us not even get into the milk! Moreover, itemizing the ingredients and statistics would encourage portion control as well. Sometimes restaurants give you an entre that would technically feed a family of five!

I feel that restaurants need to do their part in helping to get America in shape. I wonder how many would actually want to take the time to do a break down of the items on their menus. Would it be worth their time, trouble and money? When it comes to the difference between a healthy or clogged artery, my answer would be: YES, it is worth it.
Everything else we consume that is a food item is carefully labeled. It makes sense that restaurants should be kept to the same standards.

When I go to a nice restaurant, I tend to gorge myself. Not always intentional, but it happens especially crab legs! I have no idea when I leave how many calories, fat grams, carbohydrates, etc that I have consumed. If I had known, I guarantee I would not eat near as much!

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