On Friday September 13, 2013, the LA Times
published the following article:
“Public
Health Dept., restaurants team up for healthier dining
L.A. County restaurants
are joining the Public Health Department's campaign to offer patrons smaller
portions and healthier children's meals. The
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health launched a partnership Thursday
with restaurants throughout the region to promote healthier options for
customers. To be part of the Choose Health LA Restaurants program, places must
offer smaller portion sizes and healthier children's meals with less fried food
and more fruits and vegetables.
The
program is the latest effort to attack the obesity epidemic in Los Angeles
County, where about 23% of residents are obese. The county has also been
encouraging residents to eat less and to give up soda and other sugar-sweetened
beverages. "Small
changes in what we eat every day, at every meal can make a huge difference in
terms of not only our weight but our overall health,"
Kudos to the Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health officials. I believe these kind of initiatives put
us in the right path to a better quality of live. Although far from reaching a
critical mass, I think, every little effort counts. The obesity problem, and
child obesity in particular, is that serious.
As we discuss in previous blog (See
“Overweight Children” and “Obesity II”, May 2012), “…it
is about your behavior, mom, dad, not your child’s. You change the child’s behaviors by changing the behaviors of the
adults that take care of that child. Plain and simple. No kid starves if
there is food available. So it is about what
is available.”
We are responsible for our health. But
more so for our children’s health. And that is good parenting.
Daniel Adatto, BCBA
cadatto@tesidea.com 
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