Stop Blaming Vending Machines For Overweight People
Is there a connection between heavy individuals and the availability of vending machines? While it is true that they are found everywhere as well as very convenient what people choose to buy out of them is their own choice. How can you hold the industry responsible for the food choices people make? Yet there has been enough of it in the media and even in the courts to make it a concern.
Yet no one is forcing individuals to put their money into vending machines. There is nothing mandating for this to happen. They are definitely a convenient way to get food, drinks, or snacks. Yet it is up to the individual what they buy from it. They may choose a soda over a bottle of water. They may choose a candy bar over a granola bar. It is unreasonable to expect vending machines to only have foods that are good for you.
Statistically, even when a vending machine does have healthy foods in it, people will choose something else. This is common when there are many items to choose from in a given machine. There is no way to force a person with a weight problem to get a bag of peanuts over a chocolate bar. You also can't make children get juice instead of a soda when they are on their own and spot a vending machine.
It is this issue of children making poor choices at vending machines that has stirred up controversy at schools. There have been many complaints by parents when they find out their child isn't buying a hot meal at school. Instead they are using their lunch money to fill up on junk from the vending machines. So many schools are removing them from the facility.
Other schools have compromised and they only allows students to have access to them before and after school. This doesn't make the owners of the vending machines very happy though. They are certainly missing out on a large volume of sales during the course of the day. Students used to buy snacks and drinks all day long between classes.
This is a prime reason why the owners of such vending machines voluntarily move them. They just aren't generating enough money from the sales to justify the machine being in place. Since the school is closed for three months out of they year the sales volume needs to be high the rest of the time to compensate for it. When those sales are limited even further it just isn't cost effective.
There are vending machines out there that do offer very healthy foods and drinks. This means those that do watch their diet can get something out of them as well. If you are starving but on a diet you don't have to choose to go hungry or to eat something that isn't good for you. Owners of vending machines are watching to see how such sales go because they still need to make a profit.
The truth is that vending machines aren't to blame for people being overweight. Poor food choices on a regular basis is. The fact that most children and adults don't get adequate exercise is a factor as well. Due to so many complaints about what is in some vending machines, some changes have been made. Yet the owners of these machines will often tell you that it is the items full of sugar that often sell out anyway.
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