Across America, Children Getting Diabetes Treatment Can Also Order McDonald’s Junk Food—in the Same Hospital

‘Imagine this: you walk into a hospital where a loved one is being treated for lung disease, and you see the hospital selling a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. You’d likely be outraged. “Is this really happening in 2016?” you might ask. Hospitals should not be billboards for products that cause the very diseases they’re treating.
Fortunately, given tobacco’s deadly effects on people’s health, hospitals and other health institutions have systematically eliminated tobacco products from their wards. But in hospitals across the country, children continue to be treated for diet-related diseases like Type 2 diabetes on one floor while they see the world’s most recognized junk food brand—McDonald’s—on another.’
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