Healthy Kids Meals Bill
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Minnesota lawmakers are touting a bill that would help make eating out healtheir for kids.
The healthy kids meals bill was announced this afternoon..
Kimt's jessica bringe joins us live to explain what changes we can expect at restaurants.
Live george and katieá i'm holding the main reason for the change right here á sugary drinks like soda!
This bill would make it so water and milk are the default options for kids at restaurants..
To improve the health of minnesota's kiddos.
At the minnesota state capitol building in st.
Paul senator karla bigham and representative jeff brand announced an effort to make healthier meal options available to kids when dining in restaurants.
What this bill will do is provide nutritious, healthy excellent milk for children.
This bill will hopefully start ensuring children have healthy habits when it comes to their decision making on nutrition.
The bipartisan "healthy kids' meal's bill would change the default beverage option in kids meals from sugary drinks including soda to options such as water and milk.
We want to get everybody on the same page and i think it's important when we talk about our future generation of folks we talk about healthy options for our families.
The american heart association is supporting the effort á saying more than 80á percent of the top 200 restaurant chains have sugary drinks on their kids' menus.
The heart association is really looking at childhood obesity as a driving factor of poor health problems and poor cardiovascula r health later in life and so looking at sugary beverages, particularly with kids, is a big part of our nutritional priority list.
It's also good to note the bill won't be a requirement..
Kids can still choose other options and there will be no additional charges added.
We know that sugary beverages is a really large source of extra calories for kids and leads to type 2 diabetes and child obesity, just a shift to make the healthier choice easier is one of the things that could move the needle in the right the american heart association also says nearly twoá thirds of kids living in the uás consume a sugary drink every day.
Live in rochester jessica bringe kimt news three./// thank you jessica.
Other supporters of the bill include the minnesota dairy association of farmers and minnesotans for healthy kids coalition.///