Southern California has always been home to healthy living (or at least health fads)… We birthed jogging, popularized yoga, and let’s not forget the countless diets that have seen the light of day here. And recent trends are howing an increased awareness of just what we’re eating: a recent South LA city has imposed a moratorium on all new fast-food restaurants.
Well now Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky is mulling over a new proposal that would force restaurant chains to display the caloric content of each dish on their menu.
Quote Yaroslavsky: “Most people do not have a clue how many calories they are taking in when they have a milkshake or a double hamburger with cheese and fries,” he said. “This is an incentive for people to make the right dietary choices.”
This new measure would only affect chains with more than 15 franchises, so most of our favorite little hole-in-the-walls could still slip by. But this very well could spell doom for Outback Steakhouses’ Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing (2,900 calories).
What are your thoughts? Is this Big Brother intervening, or a necessary public service for a willingly uninformed and seemingly disinterested public?
Read the full article over at the LA Times.
Photo by JasonJT
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1 Lindsey // Aug 13, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Although the masses might disagree, I don’t taste quality in fast food. I kind of abhor it, actually. With the exception of the occasional hole-in-wall, I don’t eat out because I love to put things together. On weekends or evenings, heating up the kitchen is a good excuse to get bodies under the roof, and leftovers (lemon herb chicken with french green beans and jasmine rice, say) are more appealing to my palate than a Big Mac.
I don’t care what Big Brother does as far as caloric content awareness is concerned. It can leave my cell phone calls alone, though.
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