The other issue is that eating right is very hard given the limited choices available. How do I, as a consumer, know which restaurants in Ottawa use oils using trans fats or not? Just because I ordered the vegetable stir fry on a bed of plain white rice doesn't mean that the stir fry wasn't made in oils using trans fats?
And what about choice on the market? My doctor is telling me to ignore the "Heart Smart" labels on soups because the heart smart label indicates that the soup is low-fat. However, just about every soup on the market is very, very, very high sodium. Given that my doctor has told me to cut down on the salt, I've taken soup right out of my diet unless I prepare it myself. And I've made some pretty decent soups WITHOUT using salt, so I don't know why they can't put something on the market that doesn't have your full recommend sodium level for a whole day.
#1 - I think government has to get involved when it comes to restaurants unless each restaurant wants to put the FULL nutritional information beside each menu choice.
#2 - I think the more labeling the better. You can't say "let the consumer decide" and then not give the consumer the information required to decide.
#3 - The government should push back on industries that claim that their food is healthy when it clearly isn't.
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