Voice-Tribune review by Robin Garr
Here’s bad news for Baby Boomers (and a cautionary note for the rest of you): As we get older, we can’t get away with eating as much as we used to. Our metabolism slows over time, and chances are our lifestyle slows down, too.You can sense this on the bathroom scale, or your belt size, or your kids’ snarky comments. But start looking at the numbers and it gets downright scary. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s numbers tell the tale: When you were an active 20-something, you could handle 3,000 calories a day. Now that you’re a 60-something desk jockey, you’re limited to 2,000.
For men, that means your daily quota has dropped 1,000 calories per day, which means you have to drop that Quarter Pounder, chocolate shake and fries from your snacking plan. It’s just as bad for women, whose recommended calorie load drops from 2,400 at 20 to a dainty 1,600 calories a day at 60. In other words, once my wife has had her KFC Half Spicy Crispy Chicken Meal with macaroni and cheese, potato wedges and a biscuit, she’s done for the day.
Enter the Louisville mayor’s Healthy Hometown Restaurant Menu Labeling initiative, a program that encourages local restaurants to post the calorie content of dishes on the menu.
This program has drawn some jibes, perhaps because it feels a bit like the Nanny State wagging its finger. It’s voluntary, though, in contrast with federal regs that require corporate chains to let us know what’s in our food. The folks at Metro Public Health and Wellness also point out that having the same data as the big guys makes Joe’s Diner more competitive with Mickey D’s.
One early participant is Heart & Soy. We dropped in for lunch the other day, skimmed the bright, neat menu and sure enough, every dish shows its calculated calorie content.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes.com:
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/count ... -heart-soy
and in the Voice-Tribune:
http://www.voice-tribune.com/life-style ... heart-soy/
Heart & Soy
1216 Bardstown Road
452-6678
http://heartandsoy.net