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Let's say you're at a restaurant. you see an item you want and then you see how fattening it is because of the labels they put on the menu. does that influence in the end what you order? earlier i spoke with senior medical kronts elizabeth cohen about the results of a new study that just might surprise you. >> that's what this one study says. so this one study looked a. people who ate at a restaurant called taco time. it's out west in the suburbs. that's an important distinction because in seattle you have to put how many calories on the menu, but in the suburbs you don't. they looked at was t...

>> we have a couple. the kids give him some and the next thing you know, 20, gone. >> maybe if the dog knew how many calories he was eating he wouldn't eat so many nuggets is what you would think. when it comes to people that doesn't seem to be true. this is a really interesting study they did in seattle. in the city of seattle, you have to have nutritional labeling on certain menus but in the burbs, you don't know. so they compared how people eat. they found the label you had to have in seattle it didn't make a difference. people still ordered high calorie foods. we're talking about high calo...

Suburbs, you don't. there were a lot of things you might want to think twice about at this restaurant. for example, the 609-calorie beef natural soft taco or the 906-calorie beef big time mesi-burrito. >> yes. >> 906. about half the calories people are supposed to get in one burrito. >> apparently, people didn't care. >> okay, a lot of advocates for these whole labeling. we're hoping this is going to impact how people order food, et cetera. but it's not working. they're not very encouraged by this. >> well, it's important to remember this is one restaurant. maybe the kind of people who go to t...

>> reporter: about a year ago, 27-year-old steven hayes was looking for inspiration. he came across documents about the brooks slave ship. they laid out a plan to pack in as many slaves as possible in a ship to transport from africa to the new world. hayes was horrified. >> i was thinking about back when i was in high school. i didn't learn anything about the transatlantic slave trade. i learned that we picked up slaves and brought them to america and the civil rights and these wars. it didn't say anything about how the slaves got here. >> reporter: hayes felt he need to tell this story that a...

As 609 slaves were jammed in elbow to elbow. so hayes got to work. for five months he plastered, welded, and carved until his hands literally bled. he created 15 life-size statues to represent the 15 many slaves that were brought to the u.s. between 1540 and 1850. the process was emotional for hayes and even his models. hayes says one of the models broke down. >> one of the guys, he was like, yeah, i would kill myself or kill somebody for putting me through this. just imagine like eight weeks of being cooped up in one position, being able to feces and everything being thrown about everywhere. ...