LA blocks new fast-food outlets from poor areas (Update)

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Customers enter a McDonalds restaurant in Los Angeles on Monday July 28 2008. In South Los Angeles fast food is also the easiest cuisine to find and thats a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.  ...
Customers enter a McDonald's restaurant in Los Angeles on Monday, July 28, 2008. In South Los Angeles, fast food is also the easiest cuisine to find, and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol. The City Council is poised to vote Tuesday on a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a swath of the city where a proliferation of such eateries goes hand in hand with more fat adults and chunky children than other areas of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

(AP) -- City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to place a moratorium on new fast food restaurants in an impoverished swath of the city with a proliferation of such eateries and above average rates of obesity.


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