by Aimee Keenan-Greene

New York City plans to introduce a bill to ban toy giveaways in fast-food restaurant meals for children, Reuters reports.

Late last year San Francisco passed a city law banning toys sold with meals that don't meet nutrition standards, which include some McDonald's Happy Meals, despite the Mayor's initial veto.

This means  McDonald's Happy Meal has some improvements to make.

The McDonald’s Mighty Kids' Meal which  includes a double cheeseburger, french fries, and chocolate milk totals 840 calories, 37 grams of fat, 14 grams of saturated fat, 85 milligrams of cholesterol, and 1,460 milligrams of sodium.

The 4 piece chicken nugget Happy Meal, small fries, and diet coke has the lowest calorie combo at 490, with 23g of Fat.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. 

In some states, the childhood obesity rate is above 30 percent.

Almost 32 percent of kids ages 2-19 are overweight. Almost 17 percent are obese according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007-2008. JAMA. 2010)

Childhood obesity has become an epidemic in the past three decades:

Children 2 to 5 years old, obesity  increased from 5 to 12.4 percent.

Children 6 to 11, obesity  increased from 6.5 to 17 percent.

Adolescents 12 to 19 years old, obesity increased from 5 to 17.6 percent.

 Children who live near fast-food restaurants are more likely to be obese, says the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. (Child body mass index, obesity, and proximity to fast food restaurants. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. Posted online on April 29, 2010)