Plans to require restaurants to publish calorie counts on menus have been shelved by the government.  The demand was one of the main promises of the National Obesity Strategy and joined Ciara to discuss is Helen Heneghan, Professor of Surgery and Consultant Bariatric Surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital.

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