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Started mandating that chain restaurants post calorie information on menus. our thoughts was chain restaurants might start voluntarily posting information about calories and as a result reducing them. >> reporter: the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health began examining menus at 66 of the 100 largest chain restaurants in the u.s. and found that in 2013, these chains introduced newer food and beverage options with an average of 60 fewer calories than traditional offerings. we took a closer look at menus from five of those restaurants. olive garden, chili's, applebee's, red lobster an...

>> what if you work out? do you add a little more food just to make up for the calorie differential? >> men tend to burn more calories than women because of more lean muscle mass. make adjustments. if you're a marathon runner, obviously you want to add 15% calories, which means maybe two more snacks per day. but in general, 80% of people, the way the book is laid out and as you can see, each meal is thought out with flexibility. there are three rules of dieting. one, dieting should not be expensive. buy regular food to lose weight. second, it shouldn't be complicated. we make it too complicate...