Are They Really Revealing It All? – Calorie Information from Restaurants and Packed Foods

January 10th, 2010 by Jamie

Are They Really Revealing It All? – Calorie Information from Restaurants and Packed Foods Apparently, there are already numerous fast food chains that are displaying the calorie content of all ...

Are They Really Revealing It All? – Calorie Information from Restaurants and Packed Foods

Apparently, there are already numerous fast food chains that are displaying the calorie content of all the foods that they are serving on their menu. The goal is to inform consumers about the amount of calories that they’ll take when they eat the foods that the restaurant is serving. However, based from a recent study, these are all propaganda, just to give off that image that the fast food restaurant is promoting a healthy lifestyle and obesity awareness.

Based from a latest study, most of the information found on those nutrition facts on the menus of various fast food restaurants are not true and should not be relied on.

A group has studied about these information and made some comparisons. The researchers have found out that the information on the nutrition facts presented by the fast food restaurants are incorrect. The total calorie content of the dishes that these restaurants are serving, which is written in their menu, are 18 percent less than the real calorie content of the ingredients.

If the main goal for publishing the nutrition facts of the dishes that these restaurants serve is to lose weight, then having such large discrepancies may lead to the opposite. It may cause more weight gain rather than weight loss.

As much as possible, these restaurants should make it clear and post only true facts; after all, the goal of publishing nutrition facts is weight awareness and prevention of obesity and not just purely business.

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