Children love to snack. Candies, crackers, pretzels, desserts, sweet drinks and other salty foods are among the most popular foods between meals. According to study, children in the United States snack almost 3 times a day and get 27% of their daily calories from salty, fatty and sugary treats. The number of kids who snacks has also increased from 1997 to 2006. Carmen Piernas, a researcher at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in her study, revealed that in 1977, only 74% of children said they snacked while in 2006, 98% of children said they ate between meals. She also mentioned that children increased their daily energy intake from snacks by 168 calories a day, with a gain of 182 calories in children ages 2 to 6. The growth revealed in her study showed no change in the trend toward more snacking among children.
Vending machines in schools provide kids with ready snacks that mostly have no nutritional value. According to report, most schools have no nutritional standard in terms of food choices sold in those vending machines. “Children have replaced milk, which contains calcium and nutrients necessary for proper growth, with sugar-packed fruit juices and high-calorie sports drinks,” the authors of the North Carolina study said. They also added that diets of unhealthy foods may lead to poor school performance, iron deficiencies and a delay in physical development.
Vending Machines provide schools with financial assistance through its revenue but Nicole Larson, one of the authors at the Department of Food and Science said that according to their study, there was no evidence that improving the nutritional quality of competitive food restricting certain food or beverages hurts school revenue. Their research was based from a two-year study of the reduced number of overweight elementary students after removing certain foods that didn’t meet the nutritional guidelines of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The number of overweight children decreased by 10.3% in the intervention schools and increased by 25.9% in the control schools after two years of study.
Since kids snack constantly, the best option to prevent obesity is to provide them with healthy snack options that are offered by fresh healthy vending. Fresh healthy vending provides only healthy food choices that give no room for high-fat snacks and sugary treats. Schools should promote eating healthier foods instead of junk foods.
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