Editorial: Disney, Bloomberg are ahead of the times on era's health issue

Posted on June 7, 2012 |

• Editorial

By Angelo S. Lynn

If you’ve been reading the news this week, you’d know the connection between the Walt Disney Company recent action and one proposed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The former will banish junk-food advertising from its television shows for kids, and the latter is considering a plan to ban oversized sugary drinks. Both are addressing the obesity epidemic that is sweeping the nation.

And with good cause.

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