Small restaurants serving big calories, salt: studies

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite public health progress in cutting calories, as well as salt and fat from fast foods and supermarket products, neighborhood restaurants are still packing big helpings of each into their meals, a trio of studies suggests. Small independent eateries are not required to display nutritional information for consumers – if they did, the researchers report, patrons would routinely see single meals containing nearly a full day’s worth of calories and fat plus one and half times the daily recommended intake for salt. “It’s really a disgrace. …