NY City giant soda ban gives three-month grace period for fines

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City will give restaurants and food outlets a three-month grace period before imposing fines for serving the large sugary drinks that will be banned, city officials said on Tuesday. The board of the city’s Department of Health passed the ban, the first of its kind in the nation, in September, arguing that excessive soda drinking was a significant cause of obesity and other health problems. …

No exercise, more than couch, tied to fat in kids

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For kids, time spent inactive seems less of a factor in higher body fat than does a lack of exercise, according to a new study. Researchers found that the more minutes kids spent exercising at the pace of a fast walk each day, the lower their body fat percentage was. But the time they spent as couch potatoes made no difference, according to results published in the Journal of Pediatrics. …

More California Teens Get Tobacco Products, New Statistics Show

Tulare County goes on record that “Preventing youth from purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products illegally is an important goal of our program,” the Porterville Recorder explains. Citing statistics showing that the illegal sale of tobacco products decreased from 13.2 percent in 2006 to only 5.6 percent in 2011, officials specifically work with the non-traditional tobacco retailers who may be targeted by youngsters in an attempt to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products. …

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