[Newsbot]

Title: Ontario doctors urge calorie info on menus
Category: Health
Posted By: Eisensapper
Date: 2009-04-08 05:27:14
Canadian

[roger-roger]

Im totally for this, I would love to be able to see how many calories are in the so called "light" menu items vs the traditional fare.

[Wally_Sconce]

calorie/nutritional info by request would be a good courtesy for restaurants that dont want to provide the information up front.

[Brenda]

$1:

Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, medical director at the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa, said women should consume about 1,600 to 1,800 calories per day, while men should limit daily intake to about 2,000 to 2,400 calories to maintain a healthy weight. A child's intake would be based on age and weight.

Ahhhh, so it is solely based on what you take in, not in what you use?

I think someone sitting on his/her ass all day should be watching more carefully what they eat and drink than a constructionworker or a nurse who are on the move all day...

[roger-roger]

They do have calorie calculators that help with that Brenda, just google calorie calculator and there should be like 30 different choices. This one is easy to use and not that in depth.

[Brenda]

See? If I was to sit on my ass all day, I'd need 1555 to maintain my weight, if I was working out 7 days a week, I'd need 2122...

So much for the generalization

[roger-roger]

Hehe they have a few cool ones on there also, I still think that resturants should be forced to be upfront with their calories. I would also support the price of food to represnt the amount of calories it contains.

[Brenda]

Why? I don't want to know that. If you want to know, make a study out of it. Going out to dinner should be "something special", not become "another chore".

I still believe that if you seriously want to maintain a healthy weight, you should cook yourself, and see going out to dinner as fun. Don't spoil it with giving me numbers of calories I don't want to know...

(do you count the calories in your coffee, pop, cookie, carrot, sub or whatever you eat and drink during the day too?)

[stokes]

The biggest problem with restaurants is their portion sizes, how many of us actually own plates the size of what you get in some of these places. Also what doesnt help is that when we were kids our parents told us we had to eat everything on our plates. Now over eating has become a learned behavior that is hard to break.

[Wada]

Just learn how to say no. That ain't soooo hard.

[Pseudonym]

I would love to be able to choose the highest calorie items on the menu just for the hell of it. I'm going to hate myself when my metabolism actually starts to slow down.

[raydan]

I go VERY rarely to restaurants.

First of all, I find that home cooked meals taste better (my GF loves my cooking).
Second, you serve the portion that you want. Better to start off with a smaller plate and go back if you want. Besides buffets (and how bad is that food), you can't do that in restaurants.
Third, you actually know what's in your plate and you put as much "quality" as you want into your cooking.
Forth, I don't pay for "ambiance". At home, put on some music, break out the candles, dress the way you want (I found out the hard way the restaurants don't allow erotic eating).
Fifth, the wine is double (and more) the price of that in a liquor store.

As stokes said, a lot of restaurants put the emphasis on portion size and not on quality. Surprisingly, this seems to appeal to a lot of people. I'd rather have less of something really good than more of something not all that good.

[SigPig]

Eisensapper Eisensapper:

I would also support the price of food to represnt the amount of calories it contains.

I wouldn't want to know how expensive fast food would become.

[roger-roger]

Just make it a penny for every 10 calories.

[Brenda]

still too cheap