Since 1980, New York's obesity rate for children has raised from 5% to as much as 17.4%. We've learned that Mayor Bloomberg took a stand for the city to combat trans fat, but he also took a role in helping NY State schooling children as well. In 2002, he took a huge step to help the city's children. All schools now have "an executive chef, whole wheat bread, salad bars and little plastic bags of sliced New York state apples."I'm not saying that school lunch is more appealing now, because it really isn't. It's just healthier now. Fries are no longer drenched with 4 gallons of oil, and cheeseburgers are made with layers of healthier skim-milk cheese. A lot of snack machines were replaced with healthier snacks. For example, in many elementary schools, ice cream machines were replaced with machines with whole wheat and baked chips. Soda machines were replaced with juice machines. Candy and gumball machines were replaced with those for gummys made from fruit juice. And many machines for protein and energy bars, and trail mixes were added. Even Murry Bergtraum began to sell pretzels and baked Lays chips a few years ago.
This act of replacing junk food with healthier food is yet another step for New York City to combat obesity. There is no longer a high amount of fat adding onto kids' weight in school.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/27/news/companies/kaiserchildren_tvads/?postversion=20070328099
http://www.healthdecisions.org/News/default.aspx?doc_id=112726
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