US asks restaurant companies to promote healthier foods to children

By Waylon Cunningham

New York -The U.S. federal government will ask restaurants to self-regulate their marketing to children by promoting healthy meals and limiting advertisements for unhealthy foods, according to the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission’s second report released Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is tasked with investigating what its supporters call an epidemic of childhood disease.

The commission’s cooperative approach to the industry, rather than calling on regulators to enact strict rules, drew criticism from public health experts such as Marion Nestle, a former New York University nutrition professor who has studied food marketing for decades.

Nestle said the food and restaurant indu