New FDA rules will put calorie counts on menus

Started by walkstall, November 24, 2014, 07:53:41 PM

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walkstall



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WASHINGTON (AP) — Counting your calories will become easier under new government rules requiring chain restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores — and even movie theaters, amusement parks and vending machines — to post the calorie content of food "clearly and conspicuously" on their menus.

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/102214665?__source=xfinity|mod&par=xfinity
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Elfie

Sure is going to take the fun out of eating carnival foods lol
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Solar

Quote from: Elfie on November 25, 2014, 07:14:13 PM
Sure is going to take the fun out of eating carnival foods lol
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

:popcorn: OOPs, how many calories in this bag of popcorn? :rolleyes:
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Elfie

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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TboneAgain

Quote from: walkstall on November 24, 2014, 07:53:41 PM

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Counting your calories will become easier under new government rules requiring chain restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores — and even movie theaters, amusement parks and vending machines — to post the calorie content of food "clearly and conspicuously" on their menus.

more @
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102214665?__source=xfinity|mod&par=xfinity

I wonder... would I need the federal government if I wasn't so irretrievably stupid? Who should I ask about this?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on November 26, 2014, 03:34:53 PM
I wonder... would I need the federal government if I wasn't so irretrievably stupid? Who should I ask about this?

Do you have a lib next door?   :lol:
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

TboneAgain

Quote from: walkstall on November 26, 2014, 03:44:01 PM
Do you have a lib next door?   :lol:

If I have to limit my inquiries to who lives next door, I have only hillbillies to consult. And of course, as everyone knows, they're so gun-clinging, God-fearing dumb they won't have the answers I seek.  :tounge:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on November 26, 2014, 03:49:04 PM
If I have to limit my inquiries to who lives next door, I have only hillbillies to consult. And of course, as everyone knows, they're so gun-clinging, God-fearing dumb they won't have the answers I seek.  :tounge:

So it sounds like you have moved up in the world.   :lol: :lol:
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

TboneAgain

Quote from: walkstall on November 26, 2014, 04:05:24 PM
So it sounds like you have moved up in the world.   :lol: :lol:

I have to say, I do like it here. We're gonna have a bang-up holiday tomorrow!  :tounge:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on November 26, 2014, 04:14:42 PM
I have to say, I do like it here. We're gonna have a bang-up holiday tomorrow!  :tounge:

Nest to you and your young man.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."