The Kern County Public Health Services Department announced Thursday its new Certified Healthy program, through which participating restaurants that meet a stringent set of criteria will receive a special logo for their grading card and menu, indicating which items are considered healthy.
“Kern County restaurants have, for years, required health certification in an operational sense,” Coughlin said. “This groundbreaking program takes public service a step further. It tells customers that the restaurant is certified healthy is a nutritional sense as well.”
The Public Health department said one of its goals with the program is to help reduce heart disease, diabetes and general obesity in the county. According to the department, heart disease is the second-leading cause of death in Kern County, killing nearly 1,000 residents a year.
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