Happy Meals? The Nutritional Value Of What Kids Actually Eat At A Fast Food Restaurant

So?

High-calorie, high-sodium choices were on the menu when parents purchased lunch for their children at a San Diego fast-food restaurant. Why? Because both children and adults liked the food and the convenience.

However, the study of data compiled by researchers in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, appearing this week in the new journal, Childhood Obesity, showed that convenience resulted in lunchtime meals that accounted for between 36 and 51 percent of a child's daily caloric needs. In addition, 35 to 39 percent of calories came from fat and the meals provided more than 50 percent of the recommended total daily sodium intake for most children -and as high as 100 percent of sodium levels recommended for pre-schoolers.

Then eat fewer Calories and less sodium at other meals.

Morons.