Picture yourself at McDonald’s its 12:30 and you’re so starving you could eat a whole elephant. You are trying to decide between two different value meals. Both are equally tempting, equally tasty and equally priced. How would you choose? If you knew that a double cheeseburger, small fries, and 16oz Coke had almost twice the about of calories as a regular cheeseburger, small fries and 32oz iced tea with 2 tsp. of sugar would you decide differently. Not even professional nutritionist can accurately estimate the calories in restaurant foods unless they are told, so how are we supposed to know? In a poll experienced nutrition professionals underestimated the number of calories in restaurant food by 200 to 600 calories. If all menu items were labeled on the ordering boards or where customers could clearly see them when ordering, it would help people make better healthy food choices. There are many reasons why teens, young children just people in general are becoming overweight; reduced physical activity, overeating, poor nutrition, poor quality sleep the list goes on and on. But one big factor that I found was that according to Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University Americans now consume about a third of their calories from fast food restaurants and vendors. Americans are spending almost half of their money at fast food places. This is understandable; it’s fast and usually inexpensive, but if we as Americans want to eat healthier shouldn’t we be able to see what we are actually eating, the calories, sugar, fats, and sodium? There is a huge link between eating out and weight gain. There has been a huge rise of heart rate and diabetes. People don’t want to have these health problems, as the years go on Americans are trying to step forward and make their life better by exercising more and eating right. The Rudd Center states that 48% of American adults