Intelligencer
Teenage Waistland
Your inactive kid's getting fat? No sweat: Just have ZoneChefs® deliver his meals.
By Sarah Bernard
You don't have to be a lawyer for McDonald's to know that childhood obesity has become a rather big-and complicated-issue. On the one hand, it's a real problem. "More than half the kids in New York are fat," nutritionist Oz Garcia says with a sigh. "Schoolyard activity in the city is down 60 to 70 percent." On the other hand, argues a mother whose ninth-grade daughter already refuses to drink 2 percent milk, if you start micromanaging your kids' diet too early, can eating disorders be far behind?
