According to a survey performed Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, 84% of parents interviewed fed their children fast food at least once in the past week. Along with this survey comes data rating fast food meals from different corporations, determining the healthiest fast food meals present in the industry. Among the top healthiest meals are meals produced by places such as Burger King and Subway. Dairy Queen, however, had the worst scoring meal of all, the contents adding up to 973 calories in total.
In response to an earlier blog posting, the emergence of this data further supports the development of a law in San Francisco limiting the amount of calories allowed to be present in fast food meals targeted at young children. With evidence that as many as 84% parents feed their children fast food at least once a week, this law comes into more of a perspective for me. If parents are actually feeding their children fast food on a regular basis, it is more of a necessity for there to be laws limiting the amount of calories present in meals for younger children.
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