Article: Disney to serve healthier food at parks

kronk's angel · Post by **kronk's angel** » Oct Mon 16, 2006 4:14 pm

Disney to serve healthier food at parks

By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer Mon Oct 16, 1:53 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. will begin serving more nutritionally balanced meals at its domestic theme parks and will sign movie and other endorsement deals only with restaurants that limit fat and sugar in menu items, the company said Monday.
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Trans fats will be eliminated from meals at domestic parks by the end of next year, and will not be included in licensed and promotional products by 2008, Disney said.

Disney CEO Robert Iger said the move came in response to comments from parents about the eating habits of their children.

Link for more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_ ... lthy_foods

Just Believe · Post by **Just Believe** » Oct Mon 16, 2006 6:43 pm

Hmmm... I'm not surpirsed they didn't start doing this now. After "Super Size Me" was released, it gave the public a new health cautious look. However, Disney does offer some healthy selections like the salads and veggie burgers.

DisneyManInSeattle · Post by **DisneyManInSeattle** » Oct Mon 16, 2006 7:46 pm

Does that mean that ODV ice cream mickey ears will go??

Just Believe · Post by **Just Believe** » Oct Mon 16, 2006 7:53 pm

DisneyManInSeattle wrote:Does that mean that ODV ice cream mickey ears will go??

I really doubt things like that will go. They make such a good profit on the ODV ice cream mickey's, the turkey legs, monte cristos at blue bayou and more. I don't think Disney would ever do something to that extreme.

DisneyManInSeattle · Post by **DisneyManInSeattle** » Oct Mon 16, 2006 8:01 pm

I'd hope not. That and Gibson Girl icecream are my two favorite items in the park!

kronk's angel · Post by **kronk's angel** » Oct Mon 16, 2006 11:08 pm

I thought it would be nice not to have to seek out the vegetarian places just to find something that wouldn't make someone in the party sick.

But yes, the ice creams are excellent.

kronk's angel · Post by **kronk's angel** » Oct Tue 17, 2006 1:45 am

Same story, but from Reuters instead of AP:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/16/news/co ... _fat.reut/