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HEALTH & LIFESTYLE

US City Bans Sugary Drinks on Children’s Menus

July 29, 2018

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, file photo, shows soft drinks for sale at K & D Market in San Francisco. Recently, Baltimore, Maryland, became the largest city in the United States to ban restaurants from including sodas and other sugary drinks on their menus for children.

Recently, Baltimore, Maryland, became the largest city in the United States to ban restaurants from including sodas and other sugary drinks on their menus for children.

Now, Baltimore’s restaurants can only offer milk, water or 100 percent fruit juice as drinks with meals meant for children.

At places to eat in the city, boys and girls can still drink soda. But an adult will have to order it for them.

Restaurants failing to obey the new law face a $100 fine.

Doctor Leana Wen is Baltimore's Health Commissioner. She said that the "law will help families make the healthy choice the easy choice."

"The science is clear,” Wen said. “One of the biggest contributors to childhood obesity is sugary drinks." She added that "childhood obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, heart disease and early death.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, in Baltimore, one in three school-aged children is obese. CDC officials define obesity as weight that is higher than what is considered as a healthy weight for a given height.

A federal study of Baltimore showed that about one in four schoolchildren drink soda every day.

The America Heart Association suggests that children two years of age and older drink no more than one 227-gram soda per week.

The CDC website states that nationwide "the percentage of children and adolescentsaffected by obesity has more than tripled since the 1970s. Records from 2015 and 2016 show that nearly 1 in 5 school-age children and young people (6 to 19 years) suffer from obesity.

The Restaurant Association of Maryland opposes the new law. It says Baltimore’s restaurants are already facing enough business challenges. It warns the law will make those challenges even worse.

Other smaller U.S. cities – seven in California and one in Colorado -- have already banned sodas from children's restaurant menus. However, Baltimore is the first large city to take this step.

Whether or not such bans are approved in other cities, both large and small, remains to be seen.

I'm Anna Matteo.

Kenneth Schwartz wrote this story for VOA News. Anna Matteo adapted his story for Learning English. George Grow was the editor.

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Words in This Story

juice – n. the liquid part that can be squeezed out of vegetables and fruits

contributor – n. someone or something that contributes something or that contributes to something

factor – n. something that helps produce or influence a result: one of the things that cause something to happen

adolescent – n. a young person who is developing into an adult : a young person who is going through adolescence

tripled – v. to cause (something) to become three times as great or as many

challenge – n. a difficult task or problem: something that is hard to do

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