Calorie Counts Coming Soon

It is about to get easier to count your calories when you eat at a chain restaurant. The health bill, which passed into law on Tuesday, includes a requirement for chain restaurants with 20 outlets or more to list calorie counts on menus, menu boards, drive-through displays and vending machines. The disclosure of calorie information is intended to give consumers better information to make healthier choices.

Another resource for nutritional information is The Good Guide for Safe, Healthy and Green Products.The Guide provides not only general nutritional information on hundreds of national brand food products, but also rates food manufacturing companies, based on employee working conditions and benefits, philanthropy, and energy, water and waste management policies.