Last Tuesday (March 16th2010), the world’s second-biggest soft-drink maker, PepsiCo Inc., announced its plan for removing full-calories sweetened drinks from schools in more than 200 countries by 2012. This happened at the same day first lady Michelle Obama urged major companies to put less fat, salt and sugar in foods and reduce marketing of unhealthy products to children.
Rather than only persuading people to resist outside temptation, building a healthy environment is a way to improve people’s health as well. Especially, when we are living in a world which has vending machines everywhere, even in the healthcare facilities.
In a study about vending machines in California (published at in Pediatrics, Jun 2009), hospitals hospitals averaged 9.3 vending machines per facility compared with 3 vending machines per health department and 1.4 per small clinic. Across all health care facilities, 75% of beverages sold in vending machines did not adhere to the California school nutrition standards. Sodas comprised the greatest percentage of all beverages offered in vending machines, more than 30%.
Not just sweetened beverages like soda, foods are an even bigger problem. 81% of foods sold in vending machines did not adhere to the nutrition standards.
If you logged into the homepage of Georgia Vending Service, whose FREE snack & soda machine service covers a large area including Athens-Clarke County, you will find out that having a free vending service is just one “click” away. You can get all kinds of vending machines, from snack & soda machines to medical machine, even cigarette machines.
I don’t know how many vending machines there are in Athens-Clarke County, but I found out that at UGA, with vending services provided by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., there are more than 500 vending machines located in over 150 buildings on campus. Fortunately, not all of them are for snacks and soda, some of them provide newspapers and magazines. But compared to the fact that we only have one Health Center on campus, the average number of vending machines that sell unhealthy food and beverages is still large. The same day when I am writing this post, I checked the Tate Center where hold many activities for students, staff, faculty and visitors. There are 10 vending machines, but there are also some ones in the Bulldog Café.
Amazing -- and a great topic. You could probably publish a version of this in Red & Black, with a sort of "did you know?" approach. I'll bet nobody else has counted the number of devices in Tate selling sugary, salty treats.
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