Disney theme parks to rid trans fats internationally
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Walt Disney Resorts in Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo will eliminate trans fats from all food served at the parks by 2009.
This move comes in addition to ridding foods of trans fats at Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida, by the end of this calendar year. The American parks began to take action a year ago, as a response to nutritionists. Healthier options such as low-fat milk and baby carrots have been added to the menu, to increase guest choices.
Disney Consumer Products has already licensed the company's brands to healthy prepared food products in Canada, via Sobey's grocery stores' Compliments label, while Tesco supermarkets will start offering similar foods next month.
As concern over childhood obesity grows, many companies are taking steps to cleanup their act, and gain the trust of customers. Trans fats have been linked to coronary diseases.
Sources
- Meg Tirrell "Disney phases out foods with trans fat at its theme parks". Bloomberg News, October 23, 2007
- "Disney dumps trans fat at foreign theme parks". Toronto Star, October 23, 2007
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