Why calorie counting is decreasing in importance in diet programs is because most people are ignorant and under calculate what they are actually eating or don't have the discipline to keep track of everything they eat on a daily basis.
hey tolerance you do know small mom and pop restaurants are exempt from this ruling don't you and many large restaurants have already been posting calorie info on their menues for years now????
Not everything the gov't mandates is bad or wrong.. 35+ years ago before the federal pension vesting rules, co's would fire people a few months shy of their retirement date so they would not have to pay out the pension. No we have vesting rules regarding pensions. My grandfather was in the pension business and saw this happen.
Many people including (gasp)conservatives look at food labels(calories/protein/sodium) in stores when making food choices and are glad it is labeled and use the information.
Always nice to make personal insults. It really helps you make your point.
you do know small mom and pop restaurants are exempt from this ruling don't you and many large restaurants have already been posting calorie info on their menues for years now????
Some bureaucrat decided what constitutes a "mom and pop" restaurant. Will you refrain from eating there because they don't post calories"????" For Pete's sake, if you're an avid calorie-counter, you can figure it out for yourself pretty damned close.
Look. It's great that you appreciate it. But that doesn't justify the government's imposing another expense, another burden on doing business. If, as you say, many restaurants were already doing so voluntarily, then why should it be made mandatory?
It reminds me of the smoking laws. I suspect [but certainly don't know] that you heartily approve of those, too. But your approval does not, in my opinion, justify the use of government force to dictate what people may do with their own property.
If enough people wanted to know the calorie counts of the food they were ordering at a restaurant, everyone would do it without compulsion.
There is a growing sentiment in this country that if I like something, then the government should help me get it by forcing someone else to do it under penalty of losing their government permission to conduct business.
As for calorie-counting vs. eating the right foods (which is different for everyone,) have at it. Maybe I can get Congress to make it illegal to display calorie counts because it's become stylish to consider that an outmoded method for losing or maintaining weight.
And don't think it couldn't happen. Once we've allowed government to make such decisions, it will use that power over and over in a completely arbitrary and capricious fashion.