McDonald's recently announced it would no longer list soda on the kids' meal section of its menu board. Subway, Chipotle, Arby's, and Panera also have taken soda off their children's menus. But still, most of the top chains, including Wendy's, Burger King, and Chili's, still promote sugary beverages as a part of their children's menus. Will you help change that?
While taking soda off the menu is not the only improvement needed to make restaurant children's meals healthier, soda and other sugar drinks uniquely promote obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Sugar-sweetened beverages are the largest source of calories in children's diets and provide nearly half of their added sugars intake. Drinking just one sugary drink each day increases a child's odds of becoming obese by 60 percent.
Please take a minute to ask the top restaurant chains to take soda off their kids' menus. If McDonald's can do it, so can they.
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