Informed eating.Watch out double bacon cheeseburger. Several states are looking at requiring restaurants to list nutritional information next to food and drink items on their menus and menu boards. The bills vary a bit from state to state, with requirements including some or all the following: calories, grams of saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be plus trans fat trans fat n. 1. A trans fatty acid. 2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group. trans fat A fat containing trans fatty acids. , milligrams of sodium, and grams of carbohydrates. Some bills also state that obesity lawsuit immunity would be available only to those restaurants that comply. Although public health advocates support the bills as a way to fight the growing obesity epidemic, restaurant associations oppose it. Bills are still alive, as of mid-April, in Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Pennsylvania, Vermont and West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. . |
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