One of the less discussed aspects of Obama's new health care bill is that it now requires chain restaurants (and vending machines) to disclose information about calories directly on the menu.
Buried deep in the health care bill, section 4205 calls for mandatory nutrition labeling of menu items at chains with more than 20 restaurants. While it’s not necessarily the most groundbreaking change, it represents a wider shift by lawmakers not only to provide better health care but also to help prevent disease in the first place. (The bill also includes $15 billion for other preventative health programs over the next decade.)
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While cities like New York and Philadelphia have already tested the waters in this sort of legislation, a nation-wide mandate should set a new precedent for transparency in what you eat.
One of our goals here at menuvore is to give people more information about what they eat, whether it be "Does it taste good?" or "Is it good for you?". We think that the more information you have, the better your eating experience will be.
The details on implementation are still a little fuzzy, but for now we are optimistic and will watching to see how it unfolds.
Do you want to know how many calories you are eating when you go out? Let us know!
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