School Vending Machines Health .....

There has been long talks and much time and research done with School Vending Machines regarding health issues.

There has been a vending machine project which Anne Mattews has been appointed from the the British Heart Foundation as its independent evaluator. She had to select 3 schools as a study for her case in a deep examination. She will regularly visiting the schools throughout the project

Alan Johnson (Government Education Secretary) published a report on new minimum nutrition standards for school food. This was to ensure healthier eating throughout the school day. The report bans meals that are high in salt, fat and sugar or that contain low quality meat.

On June 22nd 2005 doctors urged the government to ban school vending machines that sell unhealthy fizzy drinks, snacks and to introduce mandatory nutrition guidelines for all school meals.

It has been estimated by doctors that there are now around 1 million obese children under the age of 16. This is a situation they say has led to an increase in the number of cases of young people with type two diabetes.

The fight against childhood obesity puts increased pressure on the government and follows the success of the campaign for better school meals earlier this year by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

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