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You how many calories are in your cheeseburger or your milk shake. the rules would require chain restaurants with 20 or more locations to post the calorie count for each and every item on the menu. they would also apply to bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores, coffee chains, and the calories could be up on the menus by next year. new york city was the very first in the country to put a calorie posting law in place, which has never deterred me. >> heather: i was going to say. one state is...

Im so excited, peter. i cant wait for it to come out. >> bradley, thank you so much. >> thanks. >> see, hes cute. >> oh, yeah. you like him, i know. >> were loving this story. if you go to the movies this weekend maybe to see that movie, you can pick up a snack at the concession stand, but you might want to rethink what you pick when you hear the calorie count. >> yeah, think twice. the new health care law is actually requiring chain restaurants with at least 20 locations to post calorie content...

Grant the writ now and theyll wait until the october term. >> gregg: well wait and see. thanks. good to see you, lis weihl and merced mercedes colwin. >> heather: an interesting debate and, you may have heard, eating a big breakfast will actually cut your calorie count and slim your waistline? turns out that is not true. >> gregg: i knew it wasnt true. i am vindicated. >> heather: why bigger may not be better. well find out coming up next. ♪ ♪ hey baby i hear the calling ♪ scrambled eggs �...

Marketing institute are out with their pitch, and its called nutrition keys. basically, it contains four basic icons for calories, saturated fat, sodium and sugars. on small food packages, one icon can be used for calorie count per serving. they also pitched this possible option. let me show it to you. its a panel of six icons, the four original panels for calories, saturated fat, sodium and sugar, but add also called nutrients to encourage. they define those as potassium, fiber, protein, vitami...

And sugars. on small food packages one icon can be used for calorie count per serving. they pitched this option also, six panels, then nutrients to encourage. they define those as potassium, protein, vitamins, calcium and iron. these labels are not out on foods yet. you could start seeing them in the next few months. a reminder that these are suggestions from the food industry. the government is also working on its own research in labeling. some people are worried that positive and negative nutr...

>> aha. it is more and the calorie count, i dont think it is once you get the fat on, the fat will stay on, i think the chemicals in the brain get accustomed to a different kind of thinking, eating instead of activity and the people were sedentary and the second study backs me up. we look at mice and ordinarily i say forget about it, mice are not people and this time they looked at the brains in mice and they put them on a treadmill and exercised them they found they broke a cascade in the brain...

And potentially altering your body fat compensation, for years. joining us now, dr. marc siegel of the fox news medical a-team i think ate for five when i was pregnant. so, that means that i am in big trouble. >> you know, and i just went to the opening in giants stadium on friday -- >> hey, dont say "giant" around me. >> they have an enormous buffet and people are eating like pigs and you couldnt have gotten anyone away from it and this binge eat and the study shows, people -- they binge eat an...

State, government says were your mommy, and were going to tell you what to eat, were are mommy and your daddy and you cant have this and that and is an attack on freedom, i am grossly overweight. >> no, youre not. >> i made the choice -- yes, i am -- >> im grossly overweight, are not. >> no, im grossly overweight -- no, no! >> im grossly overweight! i am telling you when they take away the freedoms and the little things, the freedoms and the big things are next, and the real goal, democrat, left...

Restaurants. >>neil: you have a big place. >>guest: but i dont have to worry because we cannot keep sending people on calorie count. >>neil: i dont want to get you in trouble. >>guest: putting a calorie count, for years mothers have been telling kids, did not eat candy. its bad for you. i dont listen to my mother, i will not listen to the f.d.a. the fact is it is insane. they should concentrate on salmonella, concentrating on if it is bad spinach or this or that. long term they are trying to cha...

This for a moment. do you see a trend here? forcing restaurants to display the calorie count. apparently were too stupid to know that a double cheeseburger with the trimmings has -- fox news alert. a lot of calories! or herding us like cattle at airport lines and screaming at anyone who dares not following the demeaning fourth grade teacher like reprimand demands. take over the car companies that cant cut it on their own. [ inaudible ] policing our language. monitoring our tea parties. dismissin...