Calorie Count On Fast Food Restaurants

Some cities are trying to force some fast food restaurants to post the calorie count on the foods they serve. Starbucks, Burger King, McDonalds, KFC, and Subway are some of these restaurants.

People that are for this legislation say that if people saw how many calories are in each dish they might not buy the higher calorie ones but choose a lower calorie meal instead.

The fast food restaurants are against this because they are forced to do this only because they have voluntarily made the calories of their food public already. They have posted all the nutritional facts and calories on their websites.

What do you think? Would people choose the lower calorie meals or eat what they feel like having when they walked in? Is this new legislation just another way of the government barging in to our private lives? Should this legislation be forced only on the restaurants who have already disclosed this information and not on restaurants that haven't?

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Angella *ThePilatesLounge.com* H. Nov 19, 2007, 7:19pm UTC

I would definately like to see the calories posted on the items on menus or at least somewhere- I think some items have way more fat and calories than people realize. When you think that a drink from starbucks could cost you an extra hour of working out suddenly that drink doesn't seem so attractive anymore-

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Sharon Katz Nov 19, 2007, 8:48pm UTC

Angella, interesting that you should mention Starbucks. I have one on my corner and never went in there. I like coffee but some of what they sell there is pretty far from my definition of coffee.

Also, I never go into any fast food restaurant. When I was in college, many, many, years ago I went into a McDonalds and that was the first and last time I entered. I didn't care for the food at all and that was when they only sold a few thousand hamburgers as opposed to their millions now. LOL

But, if I did go into a fast food place I wouldn't want to see the calories. I know that I would be eating at a half a day's calorie allotment and if that is what I want to do I would just eat it.

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Sue D. Nov 26, 2007, 11:36pm UTC

I try and stay away from those places, because I know the caloric value of the food. I don't know how people could not know this information. I think they would choose it anyway.

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Fran S. Dec 1, 2007, 5:01pm UTC

they would and do choose it anyway, thats why we are such a fat nation

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Sharon Katz Dec 1, 2007, 7:21pm UTC

Thanks for your comment, Fran. But I don't think we're a fat nation because of fast food only. Fast food is also cheap and many people in our nation don't have the money to buy good, wholesome food which is also expensive. Let's face it, in many supermarkets you can buy a pound of pasta for 50 cents. That's lots cheaper than vegetables and a pound of pasta can feed more people for 50 cents than 50 cents worth of vegetables. You also get larger portions for your money at fast food restaurants.

Many people are living at or below poverty level in America and they have to spend the little money they do get in a way to get the most out of it.

America may be a fat nation and Americans might be the cause of their weight but our government is at fault as well.

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