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Lightfoot wants to crack down on childhood obesity
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 12/16/2021

Posted on 12/16/2021 7:24:45 AM PST by KeyLargo

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 joined City Clerk Anna Valencia in introducing an ordinance that would prohibit Chicago restaurants from serving or marketing pop and other sugary drinks as the “default beverage” with kids meals.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; democrats; restaurants; soda
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thin thugs take up less room in the morgue.


21 posted on 12/16/2021 7:40:25 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CaptainKip

Some quick weight loss fads really work. Like being shot dead.


22 posted on 12/16/2021 7:40:51 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: HighSierra5

23 posted on 12/16/2021 7:42:23 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: BusterDog

>Big targets, and they don’t move fast.

They could lure them on a Christmas-y train, have Tom Hanks strangle them all, film it and call it “The BiPolar Express.”


24 posted on 12/16/2021 7:54:06 AM PST by struggle
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To: Sacajaweau

“automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks” My kids have never automatically been served anything at a restaurant. And please, people, stop thinking that juice is a healthier option than soda because it is not. Juice is a sugary poison developed to use fruit crops when there is too much real produce to sell.


25 posted on 12/16/2021 7:56:18 AM PST by Savage Rider
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To: CaptainKip

Why don’t they fine parents who are caught allowing their kids to drink soda?


26 posted on 12/16/2021 8:00:37 AM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: KeyLargo

During the covid lockdowns, parks, bealches, lakes and other recreational opportunities for young folks were closed across the country and there were stories of kids being arrested for playing baseball in the park, surfing alone, etc. In one community, police removed the hoops from basketball courts to discourage basketball games.

So now you’re forcing kids to be couch potatoes and spend their day zooming, watching TV, or playing video games, and then there’s an explosion of childhood obesity. How could that possibly be? To use an expression from the sixties, well, duh!


27 posted on 12/16/2021 8:01:43 AM PST by Rufii
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To: KeyLargo

She really doesn’t have to worry about this because the kids never make it far without being shot to death. Problem solved!


28 posted on 12/16/2021 8:05:32 AM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: KeyLargo

Getting shot while sleeping in your home is great for weight loss...


29 posted on 12/16/2021 8:05:59 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: struggle

“ They could lure them on a Christmas-y train, have Tom Hanks strangle them all, film it and call it “The BiPolar Express.”

****

Pay per view.


30 posted on 12/16/2021 8:08:44 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: KeyLargo

Lightfoot is performing a distraction from not cracking down on Chicago’s high murder rate, which includes more childhood fatalities than childhood fatalities due to Covid19.


31 posted on 12/16/2021 8:16:33 AM PST by Wuli ( a)
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To: KeyLargo

Simple fix. Don’t allow any kids to eat restaurant food unless they have a “nutrition passport” showing they are under doctor’s care for weight control. Even better, expand that to the whole population of the city. And ban sales of non-diet drinks, and meals that contain more than 500 calories. And only one of those per day.

If we can save just one life….


32 posted on 12/16/2021 8:23:21 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: KeyLargo

Lightfoot wants to crack down on childhood obesity...that way, the kids will make for a smaller target when being shot at in the city.


33 posted on 12/16/2021 8:23:28 AM PST by Go Gordon
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To: jimmygrace
Family mourners, dressed in pink and white in tribute to the little girl, view her in the tiny open casket in the Chicago church

Funeral for the baby who was shot twice: Chicago girl who was killed sitting on father's lap in van months after she survived being shot in mother's womb is laid to rest

Six-month-old Jonylah Watkins buried in Chicago a week after being shot Family and friends sob by tiny white casket at New Beginnings Church

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34 posted on 12/16/2021 8:35:09 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Hey, lizard woman, why don’t you crack down on obese criminals first?


35 posted on 12/16/2021 8:42:50 AM PST by chuckee (t)
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To: econjack

Democrats are so good at fixing problems this will end up with a citywide hunger problem with children starving.


36 posted on 12/16/2021 8:45:00 AM PST by cnsmom
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She already is.

She’s having residents shoot the fat right off the kids.


37 posted on 12/16/2021 8:47:58 AM PST by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: KeyLargo

Hope you sent that to Mayor Lori Lightfoot.


38 posted on 12/16/2021 9:03:31 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: KeyLargo

There are a lot of people who I think carry more fat than I think they should. NONE of my business. None of the delightful mayor’s business either.


39 posted on 12/16/2021 9:50:08 AM PST by all the best
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To: KeyLargo

Just put Mayor Beetlejuice’s picture on the cup. That will make them lose their appetite.


40 posted on 12/16/2021 9:59:50 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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