Healthy Fast Foods for Kids

04/15/2014

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Fast food establishments are working hard to advertise their healthy eating choices. Mother Jones took a look at how they are doing and here is what they found:

"Meals for 'moderately active' preschoolers — kids between two and five — should contain about 410 calories (slightly less for kids on the younger end of that range and slightly more for the older ones), according to USDA recommendations.

"Yet when we looked at kids' meals from 10 different fast-food chains, we found that all of them contained more than the recommended amount of calories — and some contained much more. The most caloric, from Carl's Jr., had a whopping 990 calories, more than twice what a preschooler should be eating (and about 33 percent more than what's recommended for a 10-year-old). The least caloric was KFC's Li'l Bucket, with 570 calories."

Seems like the term "healthy fast foods" is an oxymoron.

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