Posted on 01/19/2022 2:29:52 PM PST by simpson96
Determined to reduce childhood obesity, Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved Wednesday to stop Chicago restaurants from automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks.
At a City Council meeting, Lightfoot introduced an ordinance that would prohibit Chicago restaurants from serving or marketing pop and other sugary drinks as the “default beverage” with kids meals.
Parents would still be able to request sugary drinks for their children.
Instead, the “default” beverages on kids meals would be:
• Water or sparkling water or flavored water with “no added natural or artificial sweeteners”
• Nonfat or 1% dairy milk containing “no more than 130 calories per container or serving offered for sale.”
• 100% fruit or vegetable juice or juice combined with water or carbonated water with no added sweeteners in a serving size of no more than 8 ounces.
• “Nondairy milk alternatives” that meet National School Lunch Program standards, contain “no added natural or artificial sweeteners” and have “no more than 130 calories per container or serving for sale.”
Every beverage “listed or displayed on a restaurant menu or in-store advertisement for children’s meals” would have to be one of those “default” beverages, the ordinance states. City inspectors would make sure of it.
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None of the government’s business. Not our parents or nannies. Government needs to stick to dealing with criminals.
Yeah. I'm thinking her intentions are good but...there are all of those Amish Yutes dying in the streets. But then...she'd have to admit there is a problem (Racist!)...one for which there is not an easy answer (More Racist!).
Quit enriching bread. Take out niacin & riboflavin which provide like 400% of the RDA.
Right. That’s the mayors job. Not stopping car-jackings. Not stopping muggings. Monitoring children’s diets.
Why doesn’t she crack down on gangland murder?
Sure. Getting rid of shortness and funnylookingness were nonstarters and too personal for Lori.
I remember all the 1984 “Big Brother says” posters. In Chicago they need then to say “Groot says.”
Meanwhile, the black gangs are killing kids a a historic rate and nothing is done.
“Take them for a walk down the street. Then they can eat hospital food.”
You win.
ABOLISH WELFARE
Brilliant diversion. NOT.
Everyone should take nutritional advice from a dumb short Pygmy 🤪
I thought Michelle solved the problem of childhood obesity by starving the kids at school.
Do kids need to show an ID to get a soda now? THATS RACIST!
Smaller targets. Good thinking!
Make kids thinner so they’re smaller targets for drug dealers?
I wish parents would “crack down” on childhood obesity but that would usually entail crackdown on parent obesity and that ain’t gonna happen. I have noticed that obese children tend to grow into totally self centered adults.
Attempting to deflect attention from the instant lead-poisoning many Chicago children die from from every week.
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