Menu Mandates” Criticized For Being Ineffective Against Obesity.

reports a study released by the Cato Institute found that compelling “restaurants, movie theaters, and grocery stores to put calorie counts and nutritional information on menus has no long-term impact on obesity.” Advocates of “menu mandates” insist they “would nudge consumers to eat less and would cut obesity, while skeptics said” they “would put a cost on business, be ineffective and was part of an ever-growing nanny state.” The article points out that the Affordable Care Act has menu mandates, whose implementation was delayed until 2017. The mandates are expected to impact some 300,000 restaurants. http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/13/study-blasts-obamacares-menu-mandates-as-having-zero-impact-on-obesity/