Don’t Believe Everything You Read

Many chain restaurants provide calorie content on their menus and Web sites to help people eat more healthfully. Great, right? Not necessarily. Researchers at Tufts University, reporting in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, analyzed the menu items and compared their results to the content information provided by the restaurants. According to the researchers, on average, the restaurant information was 18% less than the researchers’ calorie content analysis. Furthermore, the calorie content of 10 frozen meals purchased from supermarkets averaged 8% more calories than the amount listed on the label.

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