Obesity and overweight = the epidemic of the New World? by Anna Goghova

City health officials, in their continuing fight against obesity, proposed a new regulation today requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information on their menus after a federal judge struck down a similar measure in September. It seemed to be an excellent idea to spare the new epidemic, the well-known obesity. The sour truth is that the majority of the New Yorkers doesn't have access to calorie information. Not everyone will use it, but many people will, and when they use it, it changes what they order, and that should reduce preponderance and with it diabetes. Nowadays in NYC, two-thirds of adults suffer from obesity, and the big picture is, that half of children are overweight too. It causes many psychological disorders too. People are depressed, aftermath they gorge on fatty food and comfort themselves with the thought, that they always can put the diet off. It is a vicious circle. Some New Yorkers said they don't need a calorie table to know the difference between a juicy hamburger and a salad. In their opinion this is an unnecessary idea, witch wouldn't modify the eating habits in the country. The others welcomed the news and expect some feedback from the information. The decision was a victory for the New York State Restaurant Association, an industry group which had sued the city's Health Department to challenge the regulation. The new regulation, witch takes affect March 31, will apply to about 10 percent of the city's 23,000 restaurants but which serve about a third of all food eaten outside of the home each year, according to health officials. The main aim was to inspire the folk to require menu with calorie table to recognise their unhealthy influence. Chuck Hunt, a spokesman for the New York Restaurant Association, said that the nutritional information will not have wonder-worker affect. In supermarkets have been provided only labelled products for 13 years, but obesity has not declined.

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