{"id":506,"date":"2005-12-01T06:47:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/so_at_least_the_heart_disease_wont_come_from_drinking_milk.html"},"modified":"2005-12-01T06:47:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T14:47:24","slug":"so_at_least_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/so_at_least_the.html","title":{"rendered":"So At Least The Heart Disease Won’t Come From Drinking Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its effort to promote a healthier New York, the City Health Department is going all out to encourage bodegas to sell . . . wait for it . . . not lettuce, not an apple, not even whole-wheat bread but rather low-fat milk<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Drop the can of Pringles chips, put back that Snickers bar, forget about the Oreos — healthy eats are coming to a bodega near you.<\/p>\n

The city Health Department is launching an unprecedented bodega health-food campaign, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Starting next month, 15 bodegas in Brooklyn, Harlem and The Bronx will begin selling low-fat milk as part of a pilot program to get the neighborhood delis to sell healthier alternatives.<\/p>\n

If low-fat milk sales are strong, the program will be expanded to include more bodegas — and more food products, such as diet beverages, healthy fresh vegetables and low-fat dairy and snacks, said Lynn Silver, the Health Department’s assistant commissioner for chronic-disease prevention and control.<\/p>\n

City officials will hang posters promoting the low-fat milk and help store owners track sales.<\/p>\n

“Bodegas are an important source of food in communities,” said Silver. “But many stores only stock whole milk.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s easy to see how brisk sales of Terra Blue Potato Chips<\/a> and Pom<\/a> will surely follow, but some aren’t so sure:<\/p>\n

While many customers said yesterday they’d like to see more healthy choices on the shelves, store owners were skeptical whether people would actually buy them.<\/p>\n

“I’ve tried selling skim milk but nobody buys it,” said Hanoud El Gazali, owner of the Harlem Deli Grocery.<\/p>\n

“Not everybody likes skim milk. It might be good for people, but it’s not always good for business.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its effort to promote a healthier New York, the City Health Department is going all out to encourage bodegas to sell . . . wait for it . . . not lettuce, not an apple, not even whole-wheat bread but rather low-fat milk: Drop the can of Pringles chips, put back that Snickers bar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}