Study Rates Nutritional Quality of Children's Meals at Fast Food Chains

One of our clients, The California Center for Public Health Advocacy, released Kids' Meals: Obesity on the Menu -- its investigation into the nutritional quality of children's meals from 13 major restaurant chains. Some interesting facts that came out from the study:

• Ninety-three percent of the 1,474 possible meal choices for kids, exceed 430 calories. That's one-third of what the Institute of Medicine recommends children aged 4 through 8 should consume in one day.
• Every single possible combination of the children's meals at KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box and Chick-fil-A, is too high in calories.
• Forty-five percent of kids' meals at the 13 chains studied are too high in saturated and trans fat.

You can read a copy of the press release here. Also, FOX 40 was at Monday's press conference, take a look at their segment here.