Restaurant meals packed with calories

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A single meal at a North American restaurant may contain more than half the calories the average person needs for the whole day, according to research published Monday (Tuesday in Manila) in a leading US medical journal.

Researchers from the University of Toronto sampled hundreds of meals at 19 chain sit-down restaurants and found that average breakfast, lunch and dinner meals contained 1,128 calories, or 56 percent of the daily 2,000 calorie recommendation.