{"id":209423,"date":"2026-04-25T12:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:21:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-lawmakers-doctors-and-youth-advocates-rally-for-junk-food-transparency-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209423\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Lawmakers Doctors And Youth Advocates Rally For Junk Food Transparency Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lawmakers, health officials and advocates gathered at Roberto Clemente Plaza on Friday to demand that the state take action to protect youths from unhealthy food products.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Participants want the NYS Legislature to pass a package of food policy reforms that would take aim at junk food marketed toward children.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One key feature of the legislation includes restrictions against misleading youth-targeted advertising.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Another would require warning labels listing added sugar and sodium content on restaurant menus.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Kathy Hochul has not yet indicated whether she would sign any of the food reform bills into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawmakers, health officials and advocates gathered at Roberto Clemente Plaza on Friday to demand that the state take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-209423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}