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| Health Groups Call On Fast-Food To Drop Soda From Kids' Menu |
| 2014-02-04 |
| [BREITBART] Health organizations and U.S. nutrition experts say they are calling on fast-food restaurant chains to take sugary drinks off their children's menus. Margo G. Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said McDonald's agreed to drop soda and sugary drinks from Happy Meal menus last year, and 100 U.S. and local health organizations along with nutritional experts said in a letter to Wendy's, Burger King and 21 other restaurant chains that they too should remove the items from their children's menus. Subway, Chipotle, Arby's and Panera already exclude sugary drinks from kids' meals. "With 1-in-3 children overweight or obese in the United States, it no longer makes sense to include sugary beverages in restaurant meals for young children," the letter said. The groups quoted research published in The Lancet that found drinking just one additional sugary drink every day increases a child's chances of becoming obese by 60 percent, Wootan said. Besides CSPI, the letters to the restaurant chains were signed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Endowment, the Consumer Federation of America, MomsRising.org and the National Council of La Raza. "Parents face an enormous uphill battle when it comes to teaching their kids about nutrition and feeding them a healthy diet," said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and chief executive officer of MomsRising.org. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 You tell 'em, JFM! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-02-04 16:16 |
| #12 and she'd say, "NO. it's not good for you". We knew not to ask again. So you were raised by your parents instead of the government? How very old-fashioned! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-02-04 12:36 |
| #11 After seeing the Super Bowl ad by Coke, safe to say this is clearly a blue-on-blue affair. Yes, I will have popcorn with my Pepsi. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-02-04 12:22 |
| #10 Since my kid and I rarely eat out and that is the one time he has soda.... Fuck off assholes. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-02-04 11:41 |
| #9 We are more obese, but living longer. The new Puritanism seeks more power and control over your lives. "With 1-in-3 children overweight or obese in the United States, it no longer makes sense to include sugary beverages in restaurant meals for young children," the letter said. Power. Government as your father/mother. Don't worry. Given the socialist bent for destroying free markets and killing incentives to get ahead (by taking anything you make for redistribution), we'll all be back to 40s-50s relative income levels soon enough where we won't be able to afford this stuff so regularly. Out with soda and back to (Red) Koolaid (to kill the taste of just affordable tap water). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-02-04 10:40 |
| #8 Center for Science in the Public Interest A Ralph Nader outfit; funding sources unknown. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-02-04 10:28 |
| #7 USA Today Diet soda, it turns out, may not be the panacea for weight loss that we all thought — and many of us hoped — it was. In fact, a Purdue University study has found that diet sodas may be linked to a number of health problems from obesity to diabetes to heart disease, just like their more sugary counterparts. Some studies have shown that when people drink diet soda, they engage in what's known as "cognitive distortion," deciding that since they saved on liquid calories they can splurge elsewhere — the "diet coke and fries" order. Which is fewer calories than fries and a milkshake. Here's what I was remembering - Somehow artificial sweeteners throw off the body's ability to know how many calories it needs. Normally when someone consumes something sweet, the body expects calories and sugar to follow. But when a person drinks diet soda the payoff never arrives. "You get this kind of confusion and that can lead to overeating, and at least in the animal model that can lead to an increase in blood sugar spikes," Swithers said. Purdue News, with abstract of the study. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-02-04 08:37 |
| #6 There's some study out there claiming diet drinks leave your body starving for sugar, so you eat more, and blimp up. I s'pose I'll hafta find a link... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-02-04 08:12 |
| #5 Knucke dragging, bible thumping, gun toting Pied-Noir (that's me) calls health groups to drop dead. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-02-04 07:16 |
| #4 My Mother had no problem teaching us to eat healthy. We would ask for something and she'd say, "NO. it's not good for you". We knew not to ask again. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-02-04 06:57 |
| #3 I think fast food chains in the U.S. generally carry either Coke products or Pepsi products, g(r)omgoru. SodaStream is a private pleasure. This is just the White House's crusade against the pleasures of the lower classes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-02-04 06:41 |
| #2 In particular if it's SodaStream? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-02-04 05:53 |
| #1 Heretics, Heretics I say! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-02-04 02:06 |