| Weight loss is a big subject on a lot of people's | | | | bother to perform a nutritional analysis on their |
| minds these days, and for good reason. America | | | | foods. Not only do you not know what you are |
| and other developed nations are experiencing | | | | eating - they do not know, either! |
| problems with obesity and overweight like never | | | | In order to get a better idea as to the nutritional |
| before. | | | | content, what you will have to do is note the |
| If you eat out a lot, it may have crossed your | | | | ingredients that go in to the food you like to |
| mind that it is not easy to find out what the | | | | order at your favorite restaurant, and start |
| nutritional facts and calorie information on the | | | | crunching numbers on your own. To use Outback |
| food you are eating it. Indeed, even a lot of chain | | | | Steakhouse as an example once again, it has |
| restaurants, which have web sites, will not reveal | | | | been shown that, despite the fact that they are |
| the nutritional data on the food they serve to the | | | | apparently unaware of the nutritional value of |
| public. | | | | their foods, an order of the popular appetizer, the |
| Why is this? Restaurants successfully convinced | | | | Bloomin Onion, comes with 2,310 calories! While |
| congress a few years ago that they do not need | | | | normally one person will not eat an entire order |
| to share its nutritional facts. This measure | | | | for themselves, that is still quite a lot of calories. |
| effectively exempts most restaurants from the | | | | Even worse, the Cheese Fries at Outback |
| 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act. Most | | | | Steakhouse come with nearly 3,000 calories! That |
| national chains such as Outback Steakhouse are | | | | exceeds the recommended calorie intake for an |
| not required to share the nutritional info on any of | | | | individual per day! And that is only the fries, which |
| their foods, either in their restaurants, or on the | | | | are normally meant to be served as a side dish - |
| Internet. | | | | add the rest of the meal on to that, and, well, |
| What may even be more alarming is the fact | | | | you begin to get the picture. |
| that, were you to ask the restaurant for | | | | One thing is clear - restaurants are not required |
| nutritional facts, they likely would not be able to | | | | to give you nutritional info for a reason. You |
| tell you. This is because most restaurants, owing | | | | probably would never want to eat at most of |
| to their legal "pardoning" by congress, do not even | | | | them again if you knew the truth! |