Last month, New York University and Yale medical professors published another ground-breaking study. It shows that New York City's law requiring fast food chains to post calories on their menus does not reduce their customers' intake of high calorie food.
This tells lawmakers everywhere what laws will work and which doesn't. Efforts to require fast food restaurants to post nutritional information on their menus have really been gaining ground all over the country. Sixteen municipalities including California, Seattle, and Portland have passed laws similar to the ones of New York City's.
The Menu Education and Labeling Act, which would impose labeling regulations nationwide, is now pending in Congress. This bill will in fact extend the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, which requires food manufacturers to include nutritional information on their packaging to restaurants. We all know how effective that law was, don't we :) It's actually a fact that since 1990, obesity has more than doubled.
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