Most chain restaurants continue to offer kids the same narrow range of salty, sugary, fatty foods like chicken fingers, burgers, fries, and soda. A new study from the Center for Science in the Public Interest shows that only 3% of kids' meals at the nation's top chains are healthy, and restaurants have made little improvement to their kids' menu items since CSPI's last study in 2008.
Restaurants can do better. Please urge them to add more fruits and veggies and cut the salt, sugar and fat from their kids' meals: bit.ly/kids-meals
The FMW is dedicated to eliminating harmful food marketing -- particularly marketing aimed at those who are most vulnerable to obesity and other nutrition-related diseases -- by actively identifying, investigating, and advocating changes to marketing practices that undermine health.
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Nickelodeon is the largest entertainment company for kids. It markets food to children through a variety of media and the use of branded characters on food packages. Most of that food is unhealthy.
