McDonald's Corp. announced Tuesday that it will display nutrition information on the packaging for most of its menu items next year.

This is a good step, but I'd also like to see them do something like color-code items by sodium content, and percentage of calories from fat.

For me to believe that McDonald's was genuinely interested in promoting public health (as opposed to encouraging obesity as a way of increasing sales), I'd have to see them change the way they do promotions. For example, in the recent popular Monopoly "collect the stickers" promotion, it was a very limited subset of items that had the stickers - fried chicken strips, large french fries, hash browns, and drinks. They could have easily put the promotional stickers on small or medium-size food items, and on their salads, but they didn't. Instead, it appears that they are actively trying to encourage people to buy large portion high-fat foods. A large fries has about 500 calories in it. That's more calories than an entire bacon ranch salad with chicken!

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