Restaurant Meals Have More Than Half Of Daily Recommended Calories

Eating out for breakfast, lunch or dinner? Your meal likely contains more than half of your daily recommended calorie intake, according to a new study from Canada.

Researchers from the University of Toronto examined the calorie, sodium, fat and cholesterol levels of 685 meals and 156 desserts from 19 sit-down restaurants around Canada, and found that the average meal has 1,128 calories.

Even though most nutritional facts are based on eating 2,000-calories a day, the number of calories a person should eat each day differs from individual to individual, based on weight, physical activity level, and other factors. The USDA's current daily calorie recommendations are as follows:

Estimates range from 1,600 to 2,400 calories per day for adult women and 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day for adult men, depending on age and physical activity level. Within each age and gender category, the low end of the range is for sedentary individuals; the high end of the range is for active individuals.

The study, published as a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine, also showed that the average sit-down restaurant meal has 151 percent of the daily recommended amount of sodium for adults, 60 percent of the daily recommended amount of cholesterol, and 89 percent of the daily recommended amount of fat. And the average meal contained 83 percent of the daily recommended trans and saturated fats particularly.

"The high level of saturated fat is worrisome because according to the Institute of Medicine, intakes of saturated fat should be kept as low as possible," the researchers wrote in the study. "Furthermore, though recommendations suggest that approximately 20 [percent] to 35 [percent] of energy should come from fat; in this study, 45 [percent] was derived from fat."

They continued on to write: "Overall, the results of this study demonstrate that calorie, fat, saturated fat, and sodium levels are alarmingly high in breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals from multiple chain [sit-down restaurants]. Therefore, addressing the nutritional profile of restaurant meals should be a major public health priority."

In another study, published in the same new issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., found that processed food makers and restaurants are slow to decrease sodium levels in their foods. Jacobson analyzed sodium levels in food between 2005 and 2011, and found that sodium in processed foods went down by 3.5 percent and increased in fast food by 2.6 percent.

"A traditional recommendation among physicians for treating and preventing high blood pressure is to counsel patients on reducing sodium intake," Jacobson wrote in the study. "While in an ideal world that recommendation would be sufficient to lower blood pressure in the patient population, in the real world it places unrealistic demands on both patients and physicians given the high sodium levels present in processed and restaurant foods."

The new studies come on the heels of a report just published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, showing that the nutrition quality of fast food has improved just 3 percent over a 14-year period. For more on that research, click here.

For more on what we're really eating, click through this slideshow on gross ingredients in processed foods:

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Bradley Cooper's spy thriller 'Dark Invasion' to be written by 'Sons of Anarchy' star Taylor Sheridan

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Warner Bros. has hired actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan to adapt Howard Blum's upcoming nonfiction book "Dark Invasion" for Bradley Cooper's 22nd & Indiana banner and John Lesher's Le Grisbi Productions, TheWrap has learned.

A true spy thriller set in 1915, "Dark Invasion" finds Germany sending their Secret Service to the U.S. to wage a covert war to keep America from helping the Allies. They bomb factories and the U.S. Capitol building, sabotage ships, set up an anthrax lab several miles from the White House and shoot JP Morgan Jr., who helped finance the Allies.

Blum's book follows Tom Tunney, a NYPD captain tasked with recruiting the team that will bring the German spies to justice. Blum's book reportedly claims that the CIA considers Tunney the first head of homeland security.

Cooper and Lesher will produce with Adam Kassan.

Crown/Random will publish "Dark Invasion" on September 11, a significant date since the book concerns what are considered to be the first attacks on U.S. soil since its formative years.

CAA and Janklow & Nesbit brokered the lucrative deal for movie rights back in January.

Sheridan, who starred on "Sons of Anarchy" and had a recurring role on "Veronica Mars," has recently been making a name for himself as an in-demand screenwriter.

His crime drama "Comancheria" was voted to the 2012 Black List and is in development at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Peter Berg's Film 44, which is also working with 20th Century Fox Television to develop Sheridan's Greek God action drama "Olympus."

Sheridan is represented by the Gersh Agency, Elevate Entertainment and attorney Neil Meyer.

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Do markets erode moral values? People ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, researchers say

May 10, 2013 ? Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, searching for the cheapest electronics, fashion or food. Thus, markets reduce moral concerns. This is the main result of an experiment conducted by economists from the Universities of Bonn and Bamberg.

The results are presented in the latest issue of the journal Science.

Prof. Dr. Armin Falk from the University of Bonn and Prof. Dr. Nora Szech from the University of Bamberg, both economists, have shown in an experiment that markets erode moral concerns. In comparison to non-market decisions, moral standards are significantly lower if people participate in markets.

In markets, people ignore their individual moral standards

"Our results show that market participants violate their own moral standards," says Prof. Falk. In a number of different experiments, several hundred subjects were confronted with the moral decision between receiving a monetary amount and killing a mouse versus saving the life of a mouse and foregoing the monetary amount. "It is important to understand what role markets and other institutions play in moral decision making. This is a question economists have to deal with," says Prof. Szech.

"To study immoral outcomes, we studied whether people are willing to harm a third party in exchange to receiving money. Harming others in an intentional and unjustified way is typically considered unethical," says Prof. Falk. The animals involved in the study were so-called "surplus mice," raised in laboratories outside Germany. These mice are no longer needed for research purposes. Without the experiment, they would have all been killed. As a consequence of the study many hundreds of young mice that would otherwise all have died were saved. If a subject decided to save a mouse, the experimenters bought the animal. The saved mice are perfectly healthy and live under best possible lab conditions and medical care.

Simple bilateral markets affect moral decisions

A subgroup of subjects decided between life and money in a non-market decision context (individual condition). This condition allows for eliciting moral standards held by individuals. The condition was compared to two market conditions in which either only one buyer and one seller (bilateral market) or a larger number of buyers and sellers (multilateral market) could trade with each other. If a market offer was accepted a trade was completed, resulting in the death of a mouse. Compared to the individual condition, a significantly higher number of subjects were willing to accept the killing of a mouse in both market conditions. This is the main result of the study. Thus markets result in an erosion of moral values. "In markets, people face several mechanisms that may lower their feelings of guilt and responsibility," explains Nora Szech. In market situations, people focus on competition and profits rather than on moral concerns. Guilt can be shared with other traders. In addition, people see that others violate moral norms as well.

"If I don't buy or sell, someone else will."

In addition, in markets with many buyers and sellers, subjects may justify their behavior by stressing that their impact on outcomes is negligible. "This logic is a general characteristic of markets," says Prof. Falk. Excuses or justifications appeal to the saying, "If I don't buy or sell now, someone else will." For morally neutral goods, however, such effects are of minor importance. Nora Szech explains: "For goods without moral relevance, differences in decisions between the individual and the market conditions are small. The reason is simply that in such cases the need to share guilt or excuse behavior is absent."

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Customer support ideas for the travel industry | Intxt

The provision of good customer support is something that says a lot about a company and can completely change a consumer?s opinion of you and your business. Nowadays customer support isn?t just about a smiling person at a desk, today it is about moving forward with the 21st century and integrating innovative technology and methods of contacting people.

In terms of the hospitality sector, the travel industry is one that can thrive by utilising texts for customer support. Not only is texting a more personal means of contact, it can often be far more convenient for customers than them having to contend with phone calls during office hours or tons of indirect emails.

For travel agents, text messages can serve as a simple reminder. For example, a text could state ?Hello Craig, your next payment instalment is due next week. Would you like to know our opening hours??. Deposit instalments are often things that slip people?s minds and such a polite reminder is likely to be held in high regard. Plus, the fact that you have mentioned opening hours suggests that you are considering their schedule and convenience. For customers that have booked with you, you can inform them of any excursions that have been added to their destination, the current exchange rates and when their tickets are available. All of this demonstrates the best customer service possible. Using responsive texting is particularly effective as customers are able to reply, not only with yes and no answers, but also with any questions that they may have.

Of course, the travel industry doesn?t just involve those who have bought package holidays. There are many people, especially those on business, who may require a flight only. Airlines can text passengers about of any delays or seat reservations that they may have booked as well as confirmations, terminal information or any security information due to the heightened security measures at UK airports. A similar method of contact would be effective for cruise operators. Not everyone likes to fly, but everyone likes informative customer service at the touch of a button and it likely that using SMS for customer support will have more of a reach.

The travel industry makes huge amounts of money with hotels. Hotels come in a range of shapes, sizes, themes and of course star ratings. Even if your accommodation has a low star rating, that doesn?t mean that you have to fall back on customer service. Just think how many good ratings you will get on TripAdvisor by offering the best customer support there is? Hotels can text details of booking confirmations to ask if a customer would like to add on breakfast, to ask any details of any specific requests such as room on a high floor or responsive texting could even allow for customer feedback after their stay.

One of the most effective and somewhat important ways of providing the best customer service is by sending a text stating one simple thing. Thank you. Consumers like to feel special and that they have bought into something that was worth their money. Whatever the nature of your business in the travel industry, ensure that you text a customer after a flight, holiday, stay in a hotel or after an excursion as a simple form of gratitude for their custom. A simple and cost effective text saying ?Thank you for flying with Fab Flights, we hope you had a relaxing journey and enjoyed your trip. We hope to see you again soon!?. Whilst this may seem pointless, to the consumer it demonstrates that you have taken the time to contact them and have thought about their needs. You never know, you might get a text back saying how great you are and there?s nothing like good feedback.

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