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    Saturday, May 25, 2024

    Overstepping bounds

    It's official.

    San Francisco is now the first major American city to prohibit fast-food restaurants from including toys with children's meals that do not meet nutritional guidelines.

    The city's Board of Supervisors gave the measure final approval last week in a veto-proof 8-3 vote.

    The ordinance will ban toy giveaways in fast-food children's meals that have more than 640 milligrams of sodium, 600 calories or 35 percent of their calories from fat. It also limits saturated fats and trans fats and requires fruits or vegetables to be served with each meal with a toy.

    That's too much Big Brother. Parents, not a board of supervisors, should decide what their children eat.

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