An online randomized trial of healthy default beverages and unhealthy beverage restrictions on children’s menus

Rummo, Pasquale E.; Moran, Alyssa J.; Musicus, Aviva A.; Roberto, Christina A.; Bragg, Marie A.

doi:10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101279

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“…Several cities in the US have mandated "health-by-default" ordinances, requiring restaurants to offer healthy beverages automatically with Kids' Meals [44,45]. New York City also recently introduced a "Healthy Happy Meal Bill", which sets nutrition standards for fast-food meals marketed to children with requirements to include fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and limit added sugar and salt [46].…”

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The Nutritional Quality of Kids’ Menus from Cafés and Restaurants: An Australian Cross-Sectional Study

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Australian families increasingly rely on eating foods from outside the home, which increases intake of energy-dense nutrient-poor foods. ‘Kids’ Menus’ are designed to appeal to families and typically lack healthy options. However, the nutritional quality of Kids’ Menus from cafes and full-service restaurants (as opposed to fast-food outlets) has not been investigated in Australia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutritional quality of Kids’ Menus in restaurants and cafés in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. All 787 cafes and restaurants located within the East Metropolitan Health Service area were contacted and 33% had a separate Kids’ Menu. The validated Kids’ Menu Healthy Score (KIMEHS) was used to assess the nutritional quality of the Kids’ Menus. Almost all Kids’ Menus (99%) were rated ‘unhealthy’ using KIMEHS. The mean KIMEHS score for all restaurants and cafés was −8.5 (range −14.5 to +3.5) which was lower (i.e., more unhealthy) than the mean KIMEHS score for the top 10 most frequented chain fast-food outlets (mean −3.5, range −6.5 to +3). The findings highlight the need for additional supports to make improvements in the nutritional quality of Kids’ Menus. Local Government Public Health Plans provide an opportunity for policy interventions, using locally relevant tools to guide decision making.

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The Nutritional Quality of Kids’ Menus from Cafés and Restaurants: An Australian Cross-Sectional Study

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Impact of Health, Environmental, and Animal Welfare Messages Discouraging Red Meat Consumption: An Online Randomized Experiment

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Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Roles of Cities in Creating Healthful Food Systems

Cohen

2022

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Over the past several decades, cities worldwide have attempted to reconfigure their food systems to improve public health, advance social justice, and promote environmental resilience using diverse municipal policies, often with the support of stakeholder-led governance mechanisms such as food policy councils. This article reviews the roles that cities have played in creating healthful urban food systems and the effects of those policies on public health. It explains that despite wide-ranging policy initiatives, disparities in food insecurity and malnourishment persist. It concludes by describing several promising pathways for urban food policy: engaging in food-focused urban planning to create equitable food environments; treating policies to address inequality and social justice as upstream food policies; considering the effects of new business models such as online food retail in urban food policy making; and using food procurement as a lever to influence regional, national, and global food systems. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 43 is April 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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An online randomized trial of healthy default beverages and unhealthy beverage restrictions on children’s menus

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

The Nutritional Quality of Kids’ Menus from Cafés and Restaurants: An Australian Cross-Sectional Study

The Nutritional Quality of Kids’ Menus from Cafés and Restaurants: An Australian Cross-Sectional Study

Impact of Health, Environmental, and Animal Welfare Messages Discouraging Red Meat Consumption: An Online Randomized Experiment

Roles of Cities in Creating Healthful Food Systems

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