Fast food survey: almost all children meals high in salt, calories

IMPROVE decisions here are some of the children healthier meal combinations in fast-food restaurants. The meals have been 300 to 500 calories.

Subway: Turkey Breast, roast beef or veggie joy sandwich on wheat bread. Apple slices or yogurt; low-fat milk or 100% juice.

Burger King: Macaroni and cheese or a hamburger or four chicken tenders, Apple fries without caramel sauce, fat-free milk.

KFC: Grilled chicken drumstick, corn cob and coleslaw, water, string cheese.

McDonald's: Hamburger or four chicken nuggets with BBQ sauce, Apple dippers without caramel dip, low-fat milk.

Source: Rudd Center for food policy and obesity

There are only a dozen or so healthy children fast-food chains, popular meals from thousands of possible combinations in the country shows a comprehensive new Analyse.Forscher at Yale's Rudd Center for food policy and obesity check the nutritional information on more than 3,000 children meal combinations to eight fast-food chains: McDonald's, Burger King, subway, Wendy's, Sonic, KFC, Taco Bell and Dairy Queen. The review examined whether the meals had healthy food and not exceed the recommended limits in categories such as calories and sodium.They were also people order children meals at 250 restaurants at national level by five chains to determine what will be provided as the default choice.The results (fastfoodmarketing.org), the annual meeting of the American public health association in Denver released today, show: • 12 meal combos the diet meets criteria for preschoolers; 15 Combos meets the criteria for the elementary children. • Another 20 meal combinations met children calories goal but were too high in at least an area such as sodium. • The calories kids meals from 300 up to 1, 000 • teens purchase ranged 800 to 1,100 calories in a fast food meal, half a day worth of calories. • Kids 2 to 12 usually order food with half a day sodium. • Some chains offer no 100% juice or milk. ethni-fast-food chains provide at least a healthy side dish and drink, but staff members give customers French fries and soda as the default option usually automatically. The exception is underground, which promotes their healthy decisions 60% of the time.The healthy choices the default option in kids meals cuts children storing billions of calories per year, says, that Yale's Marlene Schwartz.That is important, because approximately 84% of parents take their child to a fast-food restaurant at least once a week reports, according to a survey of the Eltern.Kinder display for fast food in the television and the Internet are bombarded today, Yale's Jennifer Harris says. For teens, see five fast food TV viewing per day; 31 / 2; See primary school pupils and children in the pre-school age see three. Guidelines: You share in the United States community today, so please keep smart your comments and civil. Access to other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Using the button "report abuse you" to make a difference. Read more.

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