Today, Governor Kathy Hochul issued her State of the State address, affirming her commitment to much-needed mental health and food policies to improve New Yorkers’ well-being, including funding for healthy universal school meals.
As the first city to mandate added sugar warnings on chain restaurant menus, New York City is leading the way by promoting transparency and helping consumers make informed dietary choices. New York consumers have a right to know about the safety risks associated with overconsumption of added sugars and deserve to have access to information at the point of service about foods and beverages that may harm their health. The proposed rulemaking represents a commonsense approach that would provide vital evidence-based information to consumers and improve the food environment, with the long-term goal of reducing the risk of diet-related chronic disease.
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This toolkit is intended to support advocates who want to lead campaigns calling for state and local nutrient warnings on restaurant menus. We outline how nutrient warnings can be used to reduce the purchases of unhealthy foods and drinks, encourage reformulation, and build stronger, healthier, more resilient communities that are better prepared to withstand future public health challenges.
Does fast food lead to unhealthy visceral belly fat? Researchers tracked 3,156 young adults for 25 years. The more often they ate at fast food restaurants, the higher their visceral (deep belly) fat, whether or not they had obesity. And those who ate fast food at least three times a week had roughly five times the risk of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) compared to those who ate fast food no more than once a month.
New York City has become the first city in the nation to pass legislation requiring added sugars warnings in chain restaurants, a victory that marks a significant milestone on the path to rebuilding a healthier New York.
Times change. Airplane armrests used to have built-in ashtrays. We used to paint houses with lead paint and fill our cars with leaded gasoline. But many restaurants still lazily offer soda as a default beverage for meals marketed and sold to children.But that’s changing, too, thanks to pioneering public-health-minded officials like Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and City Councilmember Brandon Scott.
McDonald’s has announced a welcome next step toward improving the nutritional profile of its Happy Meals.For American children, that means that by the summer all Happy Meals will have no more than 600 calories, with less saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars.
