If you are watching your health and your waistline, you will be happy to know that menu-labeling should be coming to a chain restaurant near you. The MEAL Act will require restaurants with 20 locations or more to post calorie labeling on menus and menu boards. June 10th, in a breakthrough move, the National Restaurant Association joined with Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and health groups to help forge a compromise bill with Capital Hill to get this important piece of legislation moved forward. Similar legislation is already on the books in New York City & California, where people are happy to know just what is hiding in that restaurant food they are consuming. Soon everyone in the country will be able to sit down in their favorite chain restaurant and make a sensible decision.

Thanks to the persistence and fine work of our friends at CSPI, we will be able to pass on that 2800 calorie appetizer, if we so choose!