Big Apple "snack attack" is "wholly unscientific," creates health risk
Declaring that New York City's latest nanny-fad, banning all beverages but water and snacks deemed too high in calories, fat and sugar" is "insane," according to Gilbert Ross, M.D., medical director of the American Council on Science and Health in an op ed in the New York Daily News .
Ross notes another concern is limiting children's sodium intake and offers:
But sodium is also necessary for good health, and it's likely that slashing it in young people's diets will cause more health problems than it will solve. There is no medical basis for broadly, arbitrarily limiting sodium intake in teenagers' diets.
Dr. Ross is entirely credible except on one point: he implies that the NYC Department of Health is ignorant of the medical science. They aren't. They just ignore it.