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In the nation’s ongoing battle of the bulge, there’s a fight in New York City to get calories on the menus of all major fast-food restaurants. Talk about sticker shock.

Though the proposal has already been denied once by a judge, city health officials have tweaked and reworked their original plan, hoping that the changes will be just what the doctor ordered. The idea behind the law would be to assure that burger-and-fries consumers were aware of the nutrition values of their food. To do this, calorie counts would be displayed next to their corresponding offerings, as large and prominent as their prices.

Resistance to the law has been met on several counts, most understandably with the restaurants that feel they are being micromanaged by the government. Their argument? Nutrition information is readily available online and many times onsite, so to add calorie counts to the menu would cause unnecessary clutter. Additionally, customers may not want to see the nutritional information for what they’re ordering. Furthermore, fast-food chains have said that the health department simply doesn’t have this kind of authority.

Only time will tell what happens on New York City’s fast food menus, though one thing is true: the country is fighting a weight battle and something must be done.

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