After months as an in-patient receiving treatment for her eating disorder, the last thing Jac Reaveley expected was to be confronted by calories "everywhere" after her release from hospital.
But - after the Government mandated calorie counts on many food and drink menus - that's exactly what she and many other survivors of illnesses such as anorexia found last year. For Jac, a Whitley Bay mum who works at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, she fears the change has made her recovery "far harder than otherwise".
She explained that shortly after returning home from hospital, an innocuous trip to the cinema turned hazardous - when she spotted that calorific values were listed on the menu, even for items like popcorn.
