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Health-Care Bill Requires Restaurants to Post Calories Counts

  • Ad Age, Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:15 AM
The health care bill wending its way through the House currently mandates that restaurant chains with more than 20 outlets post calorie counts as well as information about how the figures fit into recommended daily levels, Emily Bryson York reports. Section 2572, which contains the provision, is buried deep within the 1,990-page HR 3962, and was first uprooted by Politico.com.



"We're very pleased that the nutrition information provision continues to garner bipartisan support, and we're pleased that the agreement is now moving forward in the House of Representatives," says Mike Donohue, vice president of media relations for the National Restaurant Association.



A New York University study found that patrons at New York restaurants that display calorie information actually consumed more calories than legislation was enacted, although they generally believe they make healthier choices.



Brand Republic, meanwhile, reports that efforts to combat rising obesity among children and young adults appear to be paying off in Great Britain. National Heart Forum chairman Klim McPherson says restrictions on advertising to children and food labeling have been successful in leveling off the amount of overweight children but he maintains that the figure is still "unacceptably high," James Quilter reports.

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  1. Johnlloyd Scharf from None, November 3, 2009 at 5:20 p.m.

    USPS/IRS Health Care

    If health care is the problem, insurance is not the cause and government is not the answer.

    Of those "50 million," that lack insurance there were 45,000 who died without health care. With health care, 98,000 died FROM health care because of malpractice.

    The question is do we want to trust that largest corporation in the world, the U.S. Government.

    Do not expect house calls anytime soon.

    We have seen how well the government delivers on its promises and its bureaucracies pursue the money without giving us benefits on so many levels. Imagine another organ of the government that only ultimately must listen to the Secretary of the Treasury - another "service" of which is the IRS.

    http://theprogressivecapitalist.blogspot.com/2009/10/affordable-health-care-for-america-act.html

    That blog of mine above has several .pdf connections (HR. 3962 and two summaries, a few videos, and page references for new taxes and other mandates). If you cannot use the link, google "Progressive Capitalist H.R. 3962."

    If you believe the promises of this bill, you have to deal with the lie that it fosters competition with a government option called the "Public Option" and establishes the government as a monopoly making its own rules.

    Don't worry. You'll run out of "rich" soon enough. We have at least a$12 trillion economy of which at least $1.8 trillion is spent on health care. If you read the bill, there are plenty of opportunities to soak the middle class, if you do not mind the 1.6 million made jobless.

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