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Menu Labeling

Is the Obama Administration Allowing Industry to Delay Menu Labeling Implementation?

Nancy Huehnergarth | Posted 06.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Calorie-Labeling-Laws, Michelle Obama, Fda, Fast Food Restaurants, Menu Labeling, Chain Restaurants, FDA Food Labeling, President Obama Food Labeling, Health News, Diet and Nutrition, Diet & Nutrition, Healthy Living News
Nancy Huehnergarth

Consumers are responsible for making healthy food choices, not industry, food service establishments exclaim. But how can consumers make better choices if industry continues to fight to hide the caloric content of their food?

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A Comprehensive Menu Labeling Standard Is Needed to Support Healthy Choices

Dan Glickman | Posted 06.15.2013 | Politics
Read More: Affordable Care Act, Food Labeling, Diet and Nutrition, Ann Veneman, Menu Labeling, Nutrition, Agriculture, Politics News
Dan Glickman

When families go to restaurants, movie theaters, sports arenas and supermarkets, they should have the option to eat healthier food and the calorie information they need to make informed choices between various food options.

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What the Heck Happened to Let's Move? An Open Letter to Michelle Obama

Nancy Huehnergarth | Posted 05.08.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Michelle Obama, Lets Move, Menu Labeling, Nutrition, Let's Move Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Let's Move, Let's Move Campaign, Let's Move Initiative, Menu Labels, Health News, Healthy Living News
Nancy Huehnergarth

If you continue to avoid supporting policy change, I believe that history will remember Let's Move as another "feel good" first lady program that's long on public relations and short on substance.

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Rival Pizza Companies Team Up To Lobby Washington

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 05.29.2012 | Home
Read More: Domino's, Pizza, The American Pizza Community, Menu Labeling, Pizza Hut, Home News

American pizza companies are banding together and heading to D.C. in late June to address their concerns about mandatory menu-labeling legislation pas...

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Obesity: We Need an All-Out Campaign

James R. Knickman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Prevention, New York State, Health Care Costs, Obesity Epidemic, Health, Public Health, Soda Tax, Menu Labeling, Diabetes Prevention, New York News
James R. Knickman

If ever a challenge vexes us in the public health world, it is how to take on the obesity epidemic.

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Hey Waiter! There's a Megacalorie in My Stew!

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Eating, Obesity, Menu Labeling, Nutrition, Cspi, Restaurant Meals, Healthy Living News
Michael F. Jacobson

The restaurant industry had resisted calorie labeling for years, but the future is clear: consumers, want nutrition information when they're ordering at restaurants.

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MEAL Act: Dems Push To Get Calorie Counts On Menus

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Menu Education and Labeling, Rosa DeLauro, MEAL Act, Menu Labeling, Calorie Counts, Tom Harkin, Politics News

Sen.Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro(D-Conn.) are reintroducing the aptly-named MEAL Act. "MEAL" stands -- somewhat awkwardly -- for Menu Edu...

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