- Fast Food Restaurants Permitted Children: As hard as it is to believe, even though children were not allowed to drink alcohol or buy tobacco, they were permitted to eat in unhealthy fast-food restaurants. In fact, they were encouraged to do so, by advertising and family. Parents who loved their children and wanted them to grow to be strong and healthy would inexplicably take them regularly to dine on obesity-promoting food and beverages loaded with sugar and fat and salt. There were even special selections designed for minors (“Happy Meals,” some were called) that were akin to miniature packages of cigarettes that contained toys. These items helped hook them on unhealthy lifestyles from an early age. Eventually these restaurants were made off-limits to minors the same way bars were.
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