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You probably know that fast food is pretty darn unhealthy, right? Seems the toys that come with kids’ fast food meals are bad for the body, too. So bad, in fact, that a Santa Clara board of supervisors approved a proposal to remove toys from meals with more than 485 calories and high levels of fat, sugar and salt. The toys promote poor eating habits, you see, and so the toy ban is about to be launched — it will take effect in about three months to give fast-food restaurants a chance to hopefully make kids’ meals more healthful.

And get this: Some meals are so unhealthy, even smart substitutions don’t help. Says a CBC news article: “Offerings like McDonald’s Happy Meals currently don’t meet the board’s nutritional standards, even when apple sticks are substituted for french fries.”