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No junk food in New York Hospitals.
– Reported, October 02, 2012
People nervously waiting around in New York City hospitals for loved ones to come out of surgery cant smoke. In a few months from now, they cant have a supersized fast-food soda. And soon, they wont even be able to get a candy bar out of the vending machine or a piece of fried chicken from the cafeteria.
In one of his latest health campaigns, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is aiming to banish sugary and fatty foods from both public and private hospitals.
In recent years, the citys 15 public hospitals have cut calories in patients meals and restricted the sale of sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks at vending machines. But now the city is tackling hospital cafeteria food, too. And the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative is expanding its reach: In the past year, 16 private hospitals have signed on.
This month, the city moved to ban the sale of big sodas and other sugary drinks at fast-food restaurants and theaters, beginning in March. Critics say the hospital initiative is yet another sign that Bloomberg is running a nanny state, even though the guidelines are voluntary.
If theres any place that should not allow smoking or try to make you eat healthy, you would think itd be the hospitals, Bloomberg said.
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