Sentences with phrase «in school vending machines»

But despite the city's efforts, such as providing free breakfast for students and placing restrictions on snacks sold in school vending machines, childhood obesity continues to pose a major challenge.

In 2006, three of the largest beverage companies voluntarily agreed to limit their offerings in school vending machines to water or low - calorie options.

Soft drinks no longer are offered in some school vending machines.

The soft drink industry said it has shifted to lower - calorie drinks in school vending machines and it welcomed USDA's proposal.

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation already has a track record in that area — the group persuaded the American Beverage Association to remove most full - calorie soft drinks from schools and to replace beverages in school vending machines and cafeterias with lower - calorie or no - calorie versions.

a provision that would, for the first time, give the USDA authority to regulate all foods sold in schools, possibly meaning an end — finally — to so - called «competitive foods,» such as sugary drinks and candy in school vending machines and ice cream bars and fruit rollups in the deli line.

The Van Lentes» healthy vending machines in schools provide wholesome snacks that are a better alternative to the foods and drinks typically found in school vending machines.

A well - intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed to instill better snacking habits in a sample of schools in Appalachian Virginia, according to a study by Virginia Tech researchers.

This news comes at a time when healthy vending is a hot issue, especially as the USDA recently launched its proposed guidelines for competitive foods (i.e. foods sold in school vending machines, a la carte and in student stores), which are currently undergoing public comment.

And we're working to reauthorize our child nutrition legislation that will make significant new investments to revamp our school meals and improve the food that we offer in those school vending machines, so that we're serving our kids less sugar, salt and fat, and more vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

We recently reported that regulators in India want to enforce similar measures in the country, with traffic light labelling becoming mandatory for all food products sold in school vending machines and canteens.

The Democrat - led House voted Thursday to send President Obama a bill that would enable more poor children to receive free meals at school, raise the nutritional quality of cafeteria fare and reduce the junk food and sugary beverages sold in school vending machines.

Salty and sweet snacks are readily available in retail stores near schools, but snacks also are being sold during the lunch hour by booster groups, in school vending machines and often in the lunchroom itself.

With the USDA's recent proposal to improve the nutritional quality of snack foods sold in school vending machines, a la carte and in student stores (a.k.a. «competitive foods»), schools across the nation will be turning to healthy vending to assist them with compliance and improved student performance.

Legislation that passed the Illinois House on Wednesday would ban artery - clogging trans fats in food served in restaurants, movie theaters, cafes and bakeries or sold in school vending machines, starting in 2013.

Seventy - five percent of Alabama voters overall and 71 percent of public school parents back the National School Lunch Program's enhanced nutritional guidelines, now in their third year, and more than 6 in 10 support federal rules implemented in 2014 that regulate food and drinks sold in school vending machines, at snack bars, and on a la carte menus.

And roughly 7 in 10 support federal rules implemented in 2014 that regulate food and drinks sold in school vending machines, at snack bars, and on a la carte menus.

The legislation is designed to curb the spread of childhood obesity by requiring the Department of Agriculture to update the minimum nutritional standards for food sold in school vending machines, at snack bars, and in a la carte lines in the school cafeteria.