Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Feeding the obesity epidemic

David Zinczenko thinks we need more information about the calories in restaurant meals. USAToday Opinion, Mar 25, 2008 Sorry. I don't believe it. I don't know anyone who doesn't know there are more calories in Aussie cheese fries with ranch dressing (2900 cal, Outback) than in a baked potato with sour cream (150 cal), or that there aren't more calories in a Starbucks Venti strawberries and creme Frappucino (about 750 cal) than in a coffee with cream (about 35 cal). There are a lot of reasons people over eat, but lack of information is probably at the bottom of the list.

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posted by Rosabelle 7:28 PM  

1 Comments:

  • At Wednesday, 26 March, 2008, Blogger Rebecca Scritchfield, MA, RD, ACSM HFS said…

    I agree! I do think people need access to information. But I have a hard time believing that people who eat a lot of fast food will use information on restaurant menus to make healthier food choices.

    I also am not impressed with what I've been reading about this "men's health" author. Who made him the expert?

    Here's a couple posts I did on the calories on restaurant menus...

    http://rebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/calories-on-restaurant-menus/

     

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