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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Childhood obesity does not concern me nearly as much as adult stupidity.
Wish the freakish looking lesbo clown would work on that issue first.
They will talk a lot, throw large cash gifts at the ward csars, and nothing will change.
Skinnier kids will fit in smaller caskets?
How about protecting black babies and children from being murdered, before they can even grow up to be fat?
> 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.
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.
could be they’re too slow to react fast enough to dodge incoming gunfire...
She should start with Governor Pritzker who looks like he doesn’t miss many meals. He sets a poor example for the youth.
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.
Leftists always want to “crack down” on things.
Not address. Not review.
Crack down.
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.
“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.
Oddly, I have no issue with this.
Ghetto kids subsist on soda and McDonalds.
Abolish mayoral stupidity.
Off with their heads!
“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
Thread winner.
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Cut down on childhood obesity so the kids are less likely to catch lead being slung by her political supporters?
"I am Groot."
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