Kids’ UNhappy Meals: Worst Of The Poor-Nutrition Gut-Busters

Here's the skinny on kids menus — they produce chubby children.

The greasy Mac & Cheese Quesadilla kids meal at Friendly's — with a whopping 2,270 calories — tops the list of unhealthy, fattening foods parents feed their kids at restaurants, according to an eye-opening survey by thedailybeast.com.

"Children's meals at restaurants are garbage," said Mary Jo Messito, director of the Pediatric Obesity Clinic at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

"Somehow, the restaurant industry has created special meals for children that are trash. And I don't know where that came from."

She said eateries stuff kids with high-fat items like chicken fingers and hot dogs, which are low in nutritional value — instead of promoting smaller versions of healthy adult meals like fish and vegetables.

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