Health Club Vending Machines to get Healthy Snacks
Health club vending machines are all up to the challenge of promoting a healthier nation. This time though, one of them is targeting all parents’ participation in achieving a healthy lifestyle. After all, if we want our kids to start living healthy, parents should lead by example.
“Too much blame is being placed on the kids. Adults need to step up and be better role models if we want our kids to be healthy. That’s what this is all about,” says Chuck Runyon—CEO of Anytime Fitness—pertaining to the nationwide campaign featuring TV commercials and full-page ads in USA Today and People magazine which declare “There is no childhood obesity epidemic.”
Kids That Eat School Lunches and Buy From Vending Machines Likely Obese
In the midst of our nation’s enthusiastic fight against childhood obesity, an alarming yet interesting story hits the pages of Time magazine, stating that kids who eat school meals and buy from vending machines are likely to get obese, and that child obesity rate has gone up from 5 percent in 1970 to 19 percent at our present time. Hard facts, aren’t they? But any parent who’d get the chance to read this will probably think whether or not they should simply start preparing and packing lunch for their kids instead.
A new data from US Department of Agriculture stated that students who eat federally funded school meals have more chances to gain the extra weight than those who don’t. Now you’d ask are we actually getting this from USDA who’s on the forefront of fighting child obesity along with the other lobbying sectors?