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“They have a right to know the calories and what's in their food.”
“I feel like I eat fairly healthy at home, so I feel like when I go out I can [ignore] calories.”
“When you provide information ... parents, once they have access to it, make different decisions.”
PHILADELPHIA. Since the dawn of time — or at least the day the first artery-clogging cheesesteak came off the grill of a lunch cart in South Philly — Philadelphia has constantly been ranked among America’s fattest cities.
But when chain restaurants and retail food establishments start listing calorie counts next Monday thanks to a law passed by City Council last year, will eating habits actually change?
“The general belief is that people see the numbers and experience sticker shock where they are quite surprised by how many calories are in the foods and they get especially surprised by the relative calories in food,” said Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.
But some say they already know what they’re eating isn’t the best for them and don’t expect to change their habits.
“No, it tastes too good to stop eating,” said Leah Gonsales, a student at the Art Institute of Philadelphia.
The law will not apply to mom and pop restaurants because the process to test and analyze each dish is not feasible, experts say.
Still, managers of chain restaurants say they’re not concerned that the new law will run customers away.
“I actually think it’s going to help business a little bit because we do list some nutritional information” said James Ceravolo, general manager at a Center City Subway. “It could be a positive, but not a negative.”
Early research on whether menu labeling leads to healthier decisions is mixed, although most studies seem to point to positive effects.
One study of New York City’s menu labeling, which began in 2008, indicated that lower-income consumers did not change their habits, and that some ate even more calories, however.
But Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, the sponsor of Philadelphia’s bill, said she expects to see a difference here.
“Information is power, period,” she said. “And when you provide information, irrespective of income level, parents, once they have access to it, make different decisions.”
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