Study: Restaurant Kids' Meals Loaded With Calories

WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report tells parents they won't be
finding many healthy choices for their kids at the nation's top
restaurant chains.
The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest report
looked into the nutritional quality of kids' meals at 13 major
restaurant chains. The center found 93 percent of 1,474 possible
choices at the 13 chains exceed 430 calories. That's one-third of
the daily recommendation from the National Institute of Medicine
for children ages 4 through 8.
Some meal combinations contained more than 1,000 calories.
The report says that while there are some healthy choices,
"parents have to navigate a minefield of calories, fat and salt to
find them."
The report notes that eating out now accounts for a third of
children's daily caloric intake, twice the amount consumed away
from home 30 years ago.