Don't tell anyone, but this Obamacare rule just kicked in

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Beginning this week, all but the smallest restaurant chains must display the calorie counts for everything on the menu. That includes sandwiches, donuts, ice cream, pizza, movie popcorn, even gumball machines.

A standard Double Bubble gumball is 20 calories. Now you know.

It even applies to cocktails. A Moscow mule: 138 calories. A 9-ounce Piña colada: 490.

The age of ignorance is over.

Will this help us lose weight or just leave us depressed? Researchers can’t seem to agree. If you do find it depressing, go to a food truck, the rule doesn’t cover them.

The trouble with numbers, though, is they’re easy to ignore. That’s why the national debt can be $21 trillion and no one cares.

http://mynorthwest.com/983138/obamacare-rule-calorie-count/

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I wonder what the calorie count is on the KFC and Mickey D's that 45 eats all the time.

[Soxfan58]

2. 390 in one KFC chicken breast

But the sodium is 1190mg. Cheer up maybe he will stroke out.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. We can only hope.

[politicaljunkie41910]

3. My guess is that the info will more likely be used to sue restaurants who say their pancakes have

315 calories when they actually have 326 calories. Watch and see. I'm betting that the first lawsuit will be about some negligible inaccurate amount from someone who weighs 350 lbs and who'll claim that they thought their 3 egg,bacon, sausage, and cheese omlette breakfast with pancakes on the side was 2700 calories when it was actually 2900 because the menu calorie count didn't include the calories related to the butter and syrup.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Someone posted last weekend that grocery stores are having to do

it now too. A lot of people think it won't do any good but I disagree. I wanted to know how many calories were in a roast chicken and when my store finally displayed it about three months ago I was glad that I didn't have to make an educated guess anymore.

I used to teach nutrition to my first graders and everyday we would go through the choices for that day in the cafeteria for breakfast and lunch. They would do "thumbs up" (or down) when we read each item and they would shout out. "Too much fat" or "Too much sugar". We would discuss the food groups, etc. and how much we need to be healthy. Of course they still wanted the cookie instead of the apple to eat first but I know it was needed education to get them into good habits and make good choices to carry through life. Their parents did complain though...their kids would tell them at home that they weren't eating healthy foods. Oh well.

[Rorey]

6. I haven't had onion rings from Sonic since I saw the calorie count

It works for me. It helps me to say "no" to a lot of things that I was once ignorant about.

[zipplewrath]

7. Alot of surprising results

I was in some chain a couple years ago that had the caloric content displayed. None of them were exactly "health food", but I was surprised when the lowest caloric sandwich they had was the hamburger.

[ProudLib72]

8. One time when I taught a HS class set up through the community college

there was a girl who went next door during break to buy a pint of Ben and Jerry's. She ate the whole thing by herself. I went through the calorie count with her. It was roughly 1300 calories for the entire pint. I told her, "That's it for the day. You've had your caloric allotment." She didn't care. Then again, she was 17 and could burn those calories in an instant. That was a few years ago, and I wonder if she has since had to start worrying about her caloric intake.

[Stallion]

9. Sooner or Later I Check the Nutrition Information on Just about everything I eat

---don't always make the "right choice" but I often make adjustments in my caloric intake based on that "bad choice". I think this is fantastic but I really don't go out to eat near as much as I used to. You can literally cook a great steak or salmon dinner for the price of that crap McDonalds serves for 7-8 bucks. I used to pay 10-12 bucks for "Wings" then realized how easy they are to cook yourself for half the price-and it tastes just as good with the right ingredients/cookware

[Phentex]

10. Same here. I like seeing the calorie info...

don't eat out much but I will have lunch with coworkers occasionally. We usually go to salad/sandwich shops and I would like to see the info there. Sometimes that healthy salad has a ton of calories.