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Lightfoot wants to crack down on childhood obesity
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 12/15/2022 | Fran Spielman

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: chicago; illinois; koolaid; lorilightfoot; nannystate; reallyoldnews
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To: simpson96

Childhood obesity does not concern me nearly as much as adult stupidity.
Wish the freakish looking lesbo clown would work on that issue first.


41 posted on 01/19/2022 3:09:18 PM PST by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: simpson96

They will talk a lot, throw large cash gifts at the ward csars, and nothing will change.


42 posted on 01/19/2022 3:10:01 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: Leaning Right

Skinnier kids will fit in smaller caskets?


43 posted on 01/19/2022 3:17:07 PM PST by Qiviut (🍊 #standup "Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: simpson96

How about protecting black babies and children from being murdered, before they can even grow up to be fat?


44 posted on 01/19/2022 3:18:15 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

> I’m thinking her intentions are good but... <

I don’t even think her intentions are good. Lightfoot is fussing about sugary drinks only because she doesn’t want to deal with Chicago’ s real problems. This is just another case of a Leftist putting on a show to distract the masses.


45 posted on 01/19/2022 3:22:00 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Don Corleone

Yeah. So you had to buy two drinks instead of just one so you could get the same amount of sugar. Bloomie and the lefties do not understand human nature/ingenuity at all. They are morons.


46 posted on 01/19/2022 3:27:44 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: simpson96

could be they’re too slow to react fast enough to dodge incoming gunfire...


47 posted on 01/19/2022 3:28:17 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: simpson96

She should start with Governor Pritzker who looks like he doesn’t miss many meals. He sets a poor example for the youth.


48 posted on 01/19/2022 3:34:36 PM PST by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: simpson96

Lets’ start with limiting snap and welfare food to fresh vegetables and fruits, no processed foods, no sugary foods, no fast food and no soft drinks.


49 posted on 01/19/2022 3:50:32 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: simpson96

Leftists always want to “crack down” on things.

Not address. Not review.

Crack down.


50 posted on 01/19/2022 3:52:47 PM PST by Allegra
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To: simpson96

I know the cause of most childhood obesity. I am retired and currently watching my one year old grandson. I have so much respect for moms after this. It is really hard work keeping up with him. After three weeks I am beginning to see what is probably happening out there. The kids get a little grouchy and they are given food to quiet them down. It is an easy way out but in the long run it is a really bad habit. You are taught that every time you become anxious find some food to relax you.


51 posted on 01/19/2022 4:10:53 PM PST by 12chachacha (Bad illogical advice)
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To: simpson96
Everything you need to know about Chicago
52 posted on 01/19/2022 4:17:28 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: simpson96

“Lightfoot wants to crack down on childhood obesity”

This is good news for citizens on the perimeter outside Chicago. Ever since the Mexicans beat the crap out of Groot’s BLM racists in May, 2020, Mayor Groot has limited her BLM savages to destroying only the Chicago ghetto and woke white businesses and no more.

For background, Mayor Groot ordered her BLM racists to attack Mexican neighborhoods and businesses back on May, 2020. The Mexicans set up barricades on the roads and manned them with men carrying AKs. They beat the hell out of Groot’s racist savages and chased them back into their ghettos.


53 posted on 01/19/2022 4:21:19 PM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: simpson96

Oddly, I have no issue with this.

Ghetto kids subsist on soda and McDonalds.


54 posted on 01/19/2022 5:28:33 PM PST by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: simpson96

Abolish mayoral stupidity.


55 posted on 01/19/2022 6:03:12 PM PST by sasquatch
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Off with their heads!


56 posted on 01/19/2022 8:26:47 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: dljordan

“Stop the EBT cards. Should I have said that?”

You can keep EBT, just allow them to only be redeemable at state run stores that only sell beans, rice, meat, milk, vegetables, fruits, and other non processed staples which has a parking lot with stalls too small to fit escalades or other luxury SUVs


57 posted on 01/19/2022 8:31:24 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Luke21

Thread winner.

L


58 posted on 01/19/2022 8:32:40 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: simpson96

Cut down on childhood obesity so the kids are less likely to catch lead being slung by her political supporters?


59 posted on 01/19/2022 10:18:58 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Luke21
In Chicago they need them to say “Groot says.”

"I am Groot."

60 posted on 01/20/2022 6:16:58 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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