This is significant, because it shows how such a policy, could help to refocus the industry and improve the amount of information that consumers have available to them. (McDonald's Second Quarter Rises 2010) Clearly, the proposal to increase fast food restaurant disclosure on calorie and other health information to consumers; can help to prevent the sharp increases in the obesity rate. This is because such polices have shown to: cause restaurant to offer larger choices of healthy foods and they allow consumers to see what they are eating. Once this occurs, it could mean that obesity rates will begin to slow and possibly reverse, because of the increased amounts of information available.

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