regulate how they sell food and drink to children, modeled perhaps on voluntary guidelines for promoting alcohol, the panel said. Restaurants should do more to provide healthy alternatives and should list calorie content and nutrition information. "Frankly, how many more of these reports do we need before the government actually starts adopting some of these policies?" asked Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which has been pressing for strong legislation and regulations to limit junk-food marketing to children. "Congress should help parents by requiring calories and other nutrition information on chain-restaurant menus, getting junk foods out of schools, and by directing the Federal Trade Commission to restrict the advertising of junk foods to kids." U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said his department was working to encourage exercise and healthier eating. "The FDA is examining how to revise food labels to ens --More 2206 Local Time 1906 GMT
