In 2017, Ontario became the first and only province to legislate calorie counts on restaurant menus. The goal was clear: to get people to eat less, especially people who have been eating too much.

Former Health Minister Deb Matthews told reporters in 2014: “A raisin bran muffin from Tim Hortons has more calories than a cheeseburger. I think when people start to realize that they’ll make ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. In 2017, Ontario became the first and only province to legislate calorie counts on restaurant menus. We ...

For the past two years, many restaurants in England have been presenting every tempting dish on their menus alongside a cold dose of reality: their calorie counts. The idea is that, faced with the ...

Led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, the new study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, examined whether the mandatory calorie labelling law had increased customer awareness of ...

Since 2022, calorie labels on menus have been compulsory for any restaurant, café or takeaway chain in England with more than 250 staff. The idea behind this enforced rule was to help tackle obesity ...