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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,541 posts) Wed May 9, 2018, 02:31 PM May 2018

Don't tell anyone, but this Obamacare rule just kicked in [View all]

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/

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Don't tell anyone, but this Obamacare rule just kicked in [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2018 OP

I wonder what the calorie count is on the KFC and Mickey D's that 45 eats all the time. redstatebluegirl May 2018 #1

390 in one KFC chicken breast Soxfan58 May 2018 #2

We can only hope. redstatebluegirl May 2018 #4

My guess is that the info will more likely be used to sue restaurants who say their pancakes have politicaljunkie41910 May 2018 #3

Someone posted last weekend that grocery stores are having to do BigmanPigman May 2018 #5

I haven't had onion rings from Sonic since I saw the calorie count Rorey May 2018 #6

Alot of surprising results zipplewrath May 2018 #7

One time when I taught a HS class set up through the community college ProudLib72 May 2018 #8

Sooner or Later I Check the Nutrition Information on Just about everything I eat Stallion May 2018 #9

Same here. I like seeing the calorie info... Phentex May 2018 #10