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Lara MJunk Food Crackdown
April 13th 2011 18:05
Several cities are making it harder for their residents to enjoy guilty pleasure snacks. In an effort to promote health awareness, New York, Boston and Cleveland have come out with restrictions surrounding foods regarded as harmful to their resident's wellbeing. The foods targeted include sodas and other sugary drinks, fried foods and other items containing those scary trans fats.
Employees of New York's Department of Health recently received a new set of guidelines that spell out certain office dos and don’ts. The employees are told what types of perfumes they can wear and urged to resist the temptation of eavesdropping on others. As if this wasn't enough, this guide goes on to instruct what food is allowable at company parties and gatherings. Not surprisingly fried foods did not make the cut. It goes as far advising how to serve popcorn at these parties. The salty treat must be, 'popped at the party and served in brown paper lunch bags'. Employees are to, 'cut muffins and bagels into halves or quarters, or order mini sizes'. They also are told to offer thinly-sliced, whole-grain bread. My favorite part is that when 'celebration cake' is served, the office cannot also serve cookies. New York also is hoping to reduce its resident's general intake of salt, sugar and alcohol.
The mayor of Boston is trying to put a stop to the city's sugary drinks. He is using a stoplight system to categorize those drinks that are allowed and those that will be pulled. 'Red' drinks include non-diet sodas, sweetened ice teas and sports drinks. Drinks that fall under the 'yellow' category are diet sodas, 100% fruit juices and low calorie sports drinks. Bottled water and low fat milk are two items that get the mayor's 'green' light.
A Cleveland City councilman recently introduced an ordinance that would ban the sale of any prepared food containing artificial trans fat. Restaurants would have to change the way they do business, either by eliminating or changing menu items. Food services would also have to keep food labels on file to show how much trans fat they contain. It would then fall back to food manufacturers to produce this information for restaurants.
My conclusion; you better get your goodies while you can as this push on healthy living has become a recent trend in cities across America. With talks of 'fat taxes' it will be interesting to see how the food industry reacts to all of these happenings.
Employees of New York's Department of Health recently received a new set of guidelines that spell out certain office dos and don’ts. The employees are told what types of perfumes they can wear and urged to resist the temptation of eavesdropping on others. As if this wasn't enough, this guide goes on to instruct what food is allowable at company parties and gatherings. Not surprisingly fried foods did not make the cut. It goes as far advising how to serve popcorn at these parties. The salty treat must be, 'popped at the party and served in brown paper lunch bags'. Employees are to, 'cut muffins and bagels into halves or quarters, or order mini sizes'. They also are told to offer thinly-sliced, whole-grain bread. My favorite part is that when 'celebration cake' is served, the office cannot also serve cookies. New York also is hoping to reduce its resident's general intake of salt, sugar and alcohol.
Popcorn is allowed, but fried foods are a no go
The mayor of Boston is trying to put a stop to the city's sugary drinks. He is using a stoplight system to categorize those drinks that are allowed and those that will be pulled. 'Red' drinks include non-diet sodas, sweetened ice teas and sports drinks. Drinks that fall under the 'yellow' category are diet sodas, 100% fruit juices and low calorie sports drinks. Bottled water and low fat milk are two items that get the mayor's 'green' light.
Bottled water gets the green light
A Cleveland City councilman recently introduced an ordinance that would ban the sale of any prepared food containing artificial trans fat. Restaurants would have to change the way they do business, either by eliminating or changing menu items. Food services would also have to keep food labels on file to show how much trans fat they contain. It would then fall back to food manufacturers to produce this information for restaurants.
My conclusion; you better get your goodies while you can as this push on healthy living has become a recent trend in cities across America. With talks of 'fat taxes' it will be interesting to see how the food industry reacts to all of these happenings.
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