Junk food is being ousted from vending machines in hospitals in British Columbia, but fast foods still will be allowed, The Globe and Mail reports.
While the news is encouraging, you’ll have to forgive me if I’m holding back my glee. Isn’t most of fast food — unless it’s a salad or sugar-free fruit dish — really junk, too?
But, hey, let’s still applaud the Canadians for doing away with a practice that really gets the gall of such health authorities as Dr. Andrew Weil, who even recently wrote a New York Times editorial, "Surgery With A Side of Fries?" about the hospital-junk-food blasphemy.
Anyhow, B.C.’s Minister George Abbott said the ban is being put into effect to help stem the rising incidence of chronic disease.
Despite the new junk-food crackdown, contracts with companies like Tim Hortons won’t be affected. Even so, I suspect that the well-known food giant — faced with such nutritional pressure — will begin to put more healthy foods on hospital menus. At least, that’s my prediction.