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by Marion Nestle
Dec
22
2008
Restaurants are adding healthier kids’ meals
Several years ago, I gave a talk to executives of restaurants like Applebee’s and Darden’s about what they could do to make it easier for people to control their weight and eat more healthfully. I allsuggested that they make healthy kids’ meals the default. Let parents order junk food for their kids if they want to, but set up the situation so they have to ask for it specially. The executives went ballistic and gave all kinds of reasons why this was impossible (parental responsibility! cost! trouble!). Lo and behold: somebody must have listened and changes are coming, or so it seems. Let’s hope they really do this!