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To: Elsewhere who wrote (117670)	10/25/2003 12:19:58 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Each year, approximately 300,000 deaths occur related to obesity... On the same subject, someone brought this to my attention just the other day : The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that labeling menus is among several proposals it is considering to help people watch what they eat. Food companies already are required to put nutrition information on the backs of food packages, and nutrition advocates have been pressuring the government and the industry to impose similar requirements on the restaurant industry. apnews.excite.com I'm not so sure labeling food on resto menus will do that much good - can you imagine listing all the nutritional content in a menu that changes daily in a similar way to what's on pre packaged food ? Almost nobody wades through those labels, and I even feel that if you have to read the list of ingredients, you probably don't even want to be consuming the stuff anyway ! Besides, I can't find out what pesticides are on the fresh produce I buy, or hormones in meat, so you get it coming and going. As for merely listing caloric content - here, I have always thought there's a problem when the portions in so many restaurants are so huge it's normal to take a doggie bag home (something that seems to be uniquely an American thing.) One thing for sure, there are visibly more fat people here in the US than in Europe.