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Should restaurants be required to list calories and fat grams on their menus? In order to make informed decisions about food choices and in the interest of providing the means in which consumers can enhance their dining out experiences restaurants should list fat grams and calories on their menus.

Restaurants can help consumers make appropriate and healthier food choice by placing a list of calories and fat grams on menus. Diners may appreciate the information provided by the restaurants and use that information to choose food items that are healthier and have lower fat and caloric contents. This allows the consumer to make the choice and not some else.

There are lobbyists in th United State who are in favor of banning certain types of foods like fried chicken and foods cooked in oils that contain high amounts of trans fat from our menus. This violates the right of all Americans to choose. Americans are being robbed of their basic rights by these special interest groups. We, as Americans have the right to make informed choices when it comes to food and its consumption.

Restaurants can thus protect the rights of all Americans by providing fat and caloric content on their menus as this will serve the American citizen as a means of making informed decisions about the food they consume.

Dieters are more like to eat at restaurants where they can have at their fingertips ready access to information that will enable them to make more appropriate food choices. In short it enables diners to decide based on the information provided on the menus to make their own decisions with regards to what items they will order. This takes decisions regarding food choices out of the hands of special interest groups and back into the hands of the consumer where it belongs.

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