Tell Your Governor to Support Menu Labeling In Your State

Please urge your Governor to support regulations or legislation requiring fast-food and other chain restaurants in your state to list calories, saturated plus trans fat, carbohydrates, and sodium on printed menus, and just calories on menu boards, where space is limited.

Without clear, easy-to-use nutrition information, it’s difficult to make informed choices at chain restaurants. Otherwise how can you know that a tuna fish salad sandwich has 50% more calories than a roast beef sandwich? Or that a small chocolate milkshake at McDonald’s has more calories than a Big Mac?

Let your Governor know that implementation of menu labeling is a public health priority.

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Dear [ Decision Maker ],

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Dear Governor:

As your constituent, I urge you to establish regulations or support legislation to require fast-food and other chain restaurants to list calories, saturated plus trans fat, carbohydrates, and sodium on printed menus, and just calories on menu boards (where space is limited).

Although Americans eat out more than ever before, few restaurants provide nutrition information.  As a result, we often are getting more calories, fat, and salt than we realize.  This can be particularly problematic for people who watch what they eat to manage health conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure.

Restaurant labeling regulations would give the citizens of our state an important new tool to help us eat well and maintain a healthy weight.  It would provide information that would allow people to take responsibility for their own health and make more informed decisions for a significant and growing part of our diet.  And limiting the requirement to chain restaurants would not burden independent restaurants.

Thank you for your time and consideration.  I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

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