Sentences with phrase «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.

Over the years, there has been a big push to eliminate soft drinks from school vending machines and to educate parents about the risks associated with sugary drinks.

This extended a statewide push toward strict dietary guidelines for cafeteria food and a soda ban in grade school vending machines.

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

Outside of major metropolitan areas, popchips has experienced growth in nontraditional channels like school vending machines.

A 2007 USDA - commissioned report by the Institute of Medicine — part of the National Academies of Science — specifically advised against allowing artificial sweeteners in foods sold in elementary school vending machines or canteens for several reasons, including safety.

What began with strict dietary guidelines for cafeteria food and a soda pop - ban in grade school vending machines increasingly extends to the last beachhead for sugar - laden food in schools: classroom parties and holiday treats.

Since school meals formulate only part of a student's daily calorie intake, Smart Snacks was added to close the nutritional gap by providing healthy foods and beverages through school vending machines, stores, and à la carte services.

For validator machines that are used in many secondary schools to charge pre-pay cards with funds to use on schools vending machines, the process of upgrading the coin mechanism will be very similar.

School leaders can arrange to serve school breakfast during the regular school day, identify students who may be receiving insufficient food and connect their families to local resources, help food service managers and cooks create meals that are both nutritious and appealing, reduce the number of or eliminate school vending machines, and encourage parents to sign up for meal programs.

Geraci removed junk food from high school vending machines and is working with district educators to have special education students run the machines as vocational training.

«It would help to get junk food and soda out of school vending machines, it would help schools serve healthier lunches by providing more resources and training and model recipes, and it would help to bring more healthy produce from farm - to - school programs into schools,» she says.

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.

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

From the file of Rather Obvious News, this study from the University of Michigan Medical School: children who consume foods purchased from school vending machines, school stores, snack bars and other sales that compete with the federal school lunch program are «more likely to develop poor diet quality — and that may be associated with being overweight, obese or at risk for chronic health problems such as diabetes and coronary artery disease.»

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Former U.S. military leaders have identified a latent threat to the potential for a leaner, more agile fighting force: the school vending machine.

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.

They can bring snacks from home, buy healthy snacks from school vending machines or take lunch items students discard on food sharing tables.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Back in the dark ages of the food movement (circa 2002), I asked my school district to remove soda, cookies, candy, chips and candy - coated ice cream from our middle and high school vending machines, and replace them with healthier options.

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.

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

To help out in those situations, McWilliams relies on funds from school vending machines, grants and the parent - teacher organization.

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.

States including Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California have banned soda from school vending machines and cafeterias in recent years, and public officials are now turning their attention to sports drinks and other sugary beverages.

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.

Public school students may no longer be able to hit the school vending machines for their daily fix of Oreo cookies or cheese danish, if a bill introduced last week in Congress becomes law.