Thursday, 24 February 2011

UK restaurants to include calorie Info on menus

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The Government of the United Kingdom are here by encouraging restaurants to include calorie counts who agree to be bound by the terms of their menus.

But how effective it is likely to be?

The system is currently optional, but if the companies did not cooperate in the investigation, the Board of Directors may pass under the supervision of compliance with the provisions of the legislation.

The changes are likely to come into force September:

Restaurants, takeaways, cafes, pubs and sandwich shops should be signed up to put calorie labelling, they eat, and the takeaway menus from September this year.

It feels good to empowering consumers to make sensible choices. The Government feels it will tackle a problem that currently face many dieters: Home meal calorie count is easy, as it is marked in the package, but the staff canteens, cafes and restaurants, table meals must be "guesstimated" at its best.

The problem is a small, according to the study of America does not have a similar system may not work. The researchers have published their findings in the International Journal of obesity.

427 low-income parents and teenagers were supervised by a fast procedure for information before and after the introduction of calorie labelling. Although many parents and teenagers, a few of them noticed the details (9%, 28% of adults and teenagers) took account of the ordering. Overall, the amount of burnt consumed were the same before the calorie labels.

Even when calorie information exists, it is the only thing that consumers are going to take account of the far. "Taste" and then "price" were parents and teenagers in this study, considered to be important factors.

Information on local restaurants is a calorie? If so, you can subscribe to the add-in makes the difference?

Image credit: Yaletown Business Improvement Association


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