Today's Seattle Times has a wonderful article about happy meals. Here's the beginning, check it out at www.seattletimes.com
HAPPY MEALS = SORRY NUTRITION
By BOB DEANS
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON — Happy Meals make sorry nutrition, and most kids would be better off brown-bagging it than reaching for a bucket of the colonel's fried chicken, a study released Monday asserts.
Fat-laden children's meals that pack up to 1,000 calories at a sitting are contributing to obesity and the long-term onset of heart disease and diabetes, warned Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health advocacy group based here.
The group surveyed 13 popular chain restaurants that offer children's menus and provide nutritional data.
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