Tue February 15, 2011 Shots - Health Blog  Prominent Calorie
Counts Don't Budge Fast-Food Choices  When the health law was
signed last March, nutrition experts applauded the new
requirement that most chain restaurants print calorie
information about the foods they serve on the menu.  But it's
going to take a whole lot more than simply posting calories to
get people to change their eating habits at fast-food
restaurants, concludes a study just published in the
International Journal of Obesity  Researchers did a real-life
study of low-income, mostly minority parents and adolescents who
eat out regularly at fast food joints in New York City. They
surveyed them about their eating habits before New York's
labeling laws took effect in July 2008. Then after the laws were
in force, they interviewed more people of similar ethnic and
economic backgrounds before they walked into the restaurants and
then checked their receipts when they left.  Meanwhile, they
surveyed a comparable group of people dining at fast-food rest