Stop Blaming Vending Machines For Overweight People

by Robert Farnham

Are vending machines to blame for people being overweight? The answer to that question depends on who you ask. There are some in our society that tend to blame others for their choices. Fast food locations have been sued for people gaining weight and so it is just a matter of time before the owner’s of vending machines find themselves in the same predicament.

Yet no one is forcing individuals to put their money into vending machines. There’s nothing mandating for this to happen. They’re definitely a convenient way to get food, drinks, or snacks. Yet it is up to the individual what they purchase 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 anticipate vending machines to only have foods that are good for you.

Yet due to this high demand for them that’s what vendors are going to continue stocking. It makes no sense for them to fill a vending machine up with items people aren’t going to buy. The fact that some people buy these unhealthy items from vending machines though day after day is their own choice. They need to make some changes to their mindset about food.

Parents often worry about the image that vending machines provide their kids with though. Therefore they end up putting pressure on the schools to get rid of them. When they school evaluates how many of their students don’t eat a healthy lunch they often agree. So they take out the vending machines yet students can still bring the same foods from home to eat at the school if they want to.

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 big 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 shut 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 kids and adults don’t get sufficient exercise is a factor as well. Due to so many complaints about what’s 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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