Healthy Eating Minnesota Community:

Twin Cities Medical Society

Project Description

The nation’s families, on average, consume one-third of their calories eating out, and children eat almost twice as many calories when they eat a meal at a restaurant compared to a meal at home. These facts clearly contribute to the obesity epidemic among children and adults in the United States.

The Twin Cities Medical Society (TCMS) believes that by having access to nutritional information, consumers who eat out will make informed and healthier choices. To accomplish that goal, TCMS, with partners like the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support and the American Heart Association, is pursuing regulations whereby chain restaurants will be required to list calorie information on menus or menu boards and all restaurants will phase out the use of transfats, an unhealthy additive used commonly in fast food and chain restaurants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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All HEM Communities

Dakota County Public Health Department - "Smart Choices"

Farmers Legal Action Group (FLAG)

Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP)

Land Stewardship Project - "Big Stone Lake Area Foods Group"

NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center - "Northside Healthy Eating Project"

University of Minnesota - Morris - "Morris Healthy Eating"

Twin Cities Medical Society