This article in the Corriere della Sera this online version. The fast food salads go up to 823 calories !!!!!!!!!!
antiobesity A judge requires large restaurant chains to inform it. But controversy is mandatory
Calorie menus
New York, the turning healthy
Mayor Bloomberg: "The more awareness of what we eat" The restaurant association, "too much"
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW YORK - A milkshake Chocolate McDonald's contains 1,160 calories and a Wendy's cheeseburger contains 980 and a plate of guacamole avocado with fried corn Chipotle (fast food chain tex-mex style) are worth 750 calories. Despite their promise to be 'healthy' and 'restricted', even the produce of the most fast food go up to 823 calories. As of yesterday the great American food chains like McDonald's, Starbucks and Dunkin'Donuts have an obligation to display the number of calories of their products on the menu.
The decision was made a federal judge has ordered that the Big Apple for the city of New York this new rule aimed at curbing the obesity epidemic afflicting the population, especially among young, poor and minorities. The new regulation, which affects all chains with at least 15 years working in the U.S. territory, will cover about 2,400 restaurants in Manhattan alone. "The measure will help New Yorkers have a greater awareness of what they put in their teeth," says Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder of the initiative. "We should not forget that man is what he eats."
According to studies made official by the City of New York over the next five years on calorie labeling will prevent 130,000 New Yorkers to become obese and 30 000 of developing diabetes. In favor of the measure have suffered decreased in the media field. From New York Times, in an editorial that points out that "in the last two years the weight of New Yorkers has increased by 5 million pounds, especially in deprived inhabited by poor and minorities. " "In those ghettos are consumed every month as many as 10 million fast food meals - Times-presses and diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease have reached epidemic levels."
a very different view are the associations of restaurateurs. "I have nothing against restaurants that individuals who know their customers, to proceed on a voluntary basis to provide this information," said the restaurant association spokesman Chuck Hunt. "But it seems to us excessive calories to be provided by law." While national chains like Starbucks, Quiznos, Subway, Chipotle, Jamba Jus, Auntie Anne'se Chevys have been adhered initiative, others have decided to declare war with the law which, according to experts threatens to undermine their profits.
These McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Domino's, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell. "The information on the calories are already available online-argue-and then there is no need to print on the menu." But according to the court for the Southern District of New York, Richard Holwell, the legislation passed by him should help to produce a kind of effect the culture on the rest of America, where obesity is considered one of the most serious public health emergencies. "It seems reasonable to expect that, if not all, at least some of the customers look menu, and thus the calories that are going to eat - the judge said Holwell -. Perhaps in this way will eventually choose something that contains a few less calories. And this choice they gradually begin to have an impact on obesity. " The heads of the Department Health were convinced that the mere publication of the calories on the menu in foods in a few years should help save millions of lives.
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