Wednesday, September 7, 2011
[WATCH]: Chicago Park District Sept. 2011: Healthy Vending
The Chicago Park District and Parkways Foundation, its nonprofit partner, will be joined by the Chicago Department of Public Health; the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC); the Chicago Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Partnership; and corporate partners in unveiled the first of their new snack vending machines. These new machines will be completely stocked with only healthy snacks. Compass Group USA, Inc. has installed about 20 machines and will have a total of 96 installed within citywide field houses by the end of the year. The new nutritional standards for the snacks in the vending machines include limitations on calories, sodium, fat and sugar per serving. There is also at least one gluten/peanut free item
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