It is time that schools banish the snack and soda machines. Standing ambition of teaching in the way to offer students healthy food. That concludes the RIVM a study appearing Monday.
The number of snack and soda vending machines in secondary schools has diminished somewhat in recent years, but still has 83 percent of schools a dispenser and in 70 percent of the buildings a snack machine.
The MBO is more often the case, namely 91 and 85 percent of the sites respectively. These figures are noteworthy because almost all locations that participated in the study, are working to improve the nutritional offerings for students.
Sugar Bombs
, according to the study “The nutrition environment in schools that appears Monday. The findings are disappointing for the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
,, The machines are healthy school in the way, ” concludes Matthijs van den Berg, head of the Department of Prevention & amp.; Powering the RIVM. ,, You like school still are concerned with healthy food, if you do nothing with the contents of vending machines, you lose the effect. ”
Because while the sugar bombs disappearing into the cafeteria to the background they lie in the machines up for grabs. Healthy snacks are hard to find behind the glass. Although the number of machines has decreased somewhat, some schools may RIVM is a great run faster.
Healthy Diet
,, We all want our children to school healthy food around him have, ” says Van den Berg. ,, It’s great that more and more schools operate it, but it is not desirable that there are so many machines are mainly unhealthy products. “
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