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Not on the menu.(goodnews: essential natural health news)(nutritional aspects of restaurant meals)(Brief Article)
If we showed you a 10-ounce restaurant hamburger and a side order of onion rings, could you estimate the number of calories in the meal? Not likely.
That test was tried on 200 nutritionists by New York University and a group calling for mandatory nutrition labeling for restaurant meals.
The food experts consistently underestimated the 1,550-calorie meal--by an average of 685 calories.
The point of ...
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