Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel the nutrition diva here with your quick and dirty

tips for eating well and feeling fabulous today I'm going to give you some tips

and how to find the most nutritious choices on any restaurant menu.

Hi nutrition, Diva. I'm wondering about going out to eat at restaurants and finding healthy food.

A lot of restaurants do publish nutritional information, but many do not.

So what are the best sources to find out or what tips should I use for eating healthy at restaurants.

In an effort to help people make healthier choices when eating out,

New York City and several other municipalities have passed new laws that require restaurants

to publish their calorie counts right on the menus.

Usually these laws only apply to restaurants with more than one location, such as fast food and chain restaurants.

But even if they're not required to put them on the menu, many restaurants, especially the chain

restaurants, publish nutrition information on their websites.

So you can find a lot of this stuff online, and in fact a lot of it has been gathered together

in one place on nutrition data.com.

Now I've heard from a lot of people who would say that having the nutrition information

right on the menus take some of the fun out of eating out. And frankly, the restaurants aren't that crazy about this idea either,

because they know that many restaurant goers would be horrified to find out just how many calories

their favorite dishes contain.

Having spent some time in professional

kitchens, I can tell you that sparing calories is not the first priority of

most chefs. They want their food to taste good, and it's a whole lot easier to turn out tasty dishes when no one's

measuring out the butter if you know what I mean. Now I'm going to sidestep the

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