Calorie menu count a no brainer

As a person who has battled with weight all their lives the proposed introduction of calorie counting in hotels and restaurants is nothing short of manna from heaven.

To us mere mortals that would prefer to place our health ahead of our social lives, I find it at the least discriminatory that going out for the occasional meal is completely and permanently off the menu for us.

The Food Industry chiefs’ argument against Health Minister James Reilly’s proposition is very sadly based on raw economics, man hours and the time and energy it would require to implement. From a personal point of view, and I’m sure I speak for many, but the investment of the said €110m and the thousands of supposed job loses for this initiative, the financial cost — not to mention health benefits of this investment — would be recouped several times over, with the opening of their doors to many people where eating out is an utter no no up to now.