Do posted calorie counts help people make healthy choices?

By The Christian Science Monitor
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 13:05 EDT
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Do posted calorie counts help people make healthy choices?

Have you seen numbers on your menus lately, such as, 410 calories for a bagel and cream cheese, 190 calories for a latte, 1,815 calories for a chicken burrito? Those guilt-inducing numbers are popping up on menus more and more often. Since 2008, when chain restaurants in New York were first required…


 
 
 
 
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