May 18/New York/Rand Corp. -- A Rand Corp. study of 28,433 regular and 1,833 children's menu items in 245 national chain restaurants finds that a whopping 96% of them fail to meet recommendations for the combination of calories, sodium, fat and saturated fat set by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
The findings were published online in the journal Public Health Nutrition. The study was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which has made childhood obesity a major strategic initiative.