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New Bill Calls For Calories On Menus A new bill in Congress that would require many restaurants to include nutritional labels on their menus is set to be introduced Wednesday. The effort comes as the Food and Drug Administration weighs similar proposals and a survey by an advocacy group shows most Americans would like calories listed along with prices. THE PROPOSAL, by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., would force chain restaurants with at least 20 outlets to list key nutrition information. It would be far less detailed than information boxes now on packaged food, but visitors to a McDonald’s or Wendy’s would see calories listed on menu boards above cashiers’ heads and at drive-in kiosks, while customers at sit-down restaurants, like Denny’s or Applebee’s, would get menus that revealed fat and sodium content along with calories. Though many chains provide the information on their Web sites or keep nutrition binders behind the counter, only a handful make it visible to customers at the point of sale. “People shouldn’t have to dig for it,” DeLauro said. “It’s something that’s very important to people and their health.” Two-thirds of Americans support a requirement calories, nutrition, while, information, food, said, restaurants, out, fat, pizza, percent, make, chains, though, saturated, now, menus, labels, labeling, items, wootan, provide, often, nutritional, nearly, less, group, delauro, data, customers, americans, web, two, think