Calorie Counts On Menus Have Virtually No Impact On What We Eat

[Peter1469]

Calorie Counts On Menus Have Virtually No Impact On What We Eat

I does for me. I don't eat out much because it is hard to find healthy food. Many of the signature meals are over 1100 calories. I suspect it is a lot of added sugar.

As of May last year, all American restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets have been legally obliged to provide calorie counts on their menus in a bid to help people make less fattening choices. So how's that going then?

Not so well if the latest study – the largest to date on how calorie information affects consumer purchases – is anything to go by.


The setting for the study, published in the British Medical Journal was a large franchise of a national fast-food company with three different restaurant chains located in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi (you can do the sleuthing and come up with some theories as to who this might be, but the franchisees who handed over data didn’t get active permission from head office to name the restaurant, so the authors couldn’t divulge).


104 outlets were involved in the analysis, all of which added calorie information to their in-store and drive-thru menus in April 2017. Weekly aggregated sales data was made available to the researchers from the pre-labeling (April 2015 to April 2017) period to up until April 2018 – a year after labeling implementation. That’s a whole lot of data – around 50 million transactions – and a far longer follow-up than most previous evaluations of food labeling interventions.


Virtually no impact…

Read the rest at the link.

[Common]

Dont forget the salt content, you have to worry about everything when eating out. My wife who used to enjoy salads out after she told them to hold on certain things like cheese and she used either vinigrettes or light oil and vinegar dressing. Now she worries about the cleanliness of the kitchens and if they wash the ingredients and handle them right.

Its a no win, I go with salmon and baked potato or something cooked to a temp thats safer.

[Peter1469]

Dont forget the salt content, you have to worry about everything when eating out. My wife who used to enjoy salads out after she told them to hold on certain things like cheese and she used either vinigrettes or light oil and vinegar dressing. Now she worries about the cleanliness of the kitchens and if they wash the ingredients and handle them right.

Its a no win, I go with salmon and baked potato or something cooked to a temp thats safer.

I add a lot of salt to my food. I use sea salt.

Luckily I am not salt sensitive. (I think 30% of humans are.)

[Common Sense]

Ever since the calorie counts have been posted I've been shocked by some things that I thought were low in caloric content, but turned out to be very high.

Some people clearly don't care, but informing consumers isn't a bad thing.

[donttread]

Calorie Counts On Menus Have Virtually No Impact On What We Eat

I does for me. I don't eat out much because it is hard to find healthy food. Many of the signature meals are over 1100 calories. I suspect it is a lot of added sugar.



Read the rest at the link.

Makes sense. I'm on a 6 month sucessful weight loss roll right now but if I am going to scrimp I'll do so at home.

[Captdon]

I worry about calories at 210 lbs. Until then, it's just food. Ithink about fat and carbs to an extent. I eat healthy enough at home to not worry about eating out. Salt is a big problem for me either way.

As to salt:

Table salt is typically mined from underground salt deposits. Table salt is more heavily processed to eliminate minerals and usually contains an additive to prevent clumping. Most table salt also has added iodine, an essential nutrient that helps maintain a healthy thyroid.
Sea salt and table salt have the same basic nutritional value, despite the fact that sea salt is often promoted as being healthier. Sea salt and table salt contain comparable amounts of sodium by weight.

http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...On-What-We-Eat

[Peter1469]

I worry about calories at 210 lbs. Until then, it's just food. Ithink about fat and carbs to an extent. I eat healthy enough at home to not worry about eating out. Salt is a big problem for me either way.

As to salt:

Table salt is typically mined from underground salt deposits. Table salt is more heavily processed to eliminate minerals and usually contains an additive to prevent clumping. Most table salt also has added iodine, an essential nutrient that helps maintain a healthy thyroid.
Sea salt and table salt have the same basic nutritional value, despite the fact that sea salt is often promoted as being healthier. Sea salt and table salt contain comparable amounts of sodium by weight.

http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...On-What-We-Eat

You will die without adequate salt levels. You see marathon runners die from "too much water." It wasn't too much water, but rather too little salt.

But as I said above, 30% of humans are salt sensitive- they have to pay attention to their salt intake.

[Dr. Who]

I don't often eat out so the calorie count is less important than getting something that I like. Also, I rarely eat the entire portion that I'm served, so that reduces the calorie count. It's not often that I find restaurant food, even at high end restaurants, particularly impressive. Many are all hat and no cattle. The food looks good, but tastes meh. So, if I'm patronizing a restaurant, it's because they make something that I either don't make at all or that I can't make as well. If that's the case, I don't care about the calories.

[silvereyes]

I add a lot of salt to my food. I use sea salt.

Luckily I am not salt sensitive. (I think 30% of humans are.)

My favorite:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/315081.php

[silvereyes]

https://www.saltroomlv.com/many-uses-himalayan-salt/