Avoiding Weight Gain with Healthy Vending Machines

July 21, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Avoiding weight gain as you get older is not impossible. Harvard doctors have discovered some interesting research on weight gain and their results can help you from adding on pounds.

They found that reducing your intake of certain foods, getting 6 to 8 hours of sleep per night, getting some exercise and turning off the television all predicted less weight gain with time.

Additionally, they found five foods strongly linked with weight gain and five others linked with less than average weight gain.
The type and quality of food and beverage a person consumes is especially important. This new research shows how many lifestyle factors, including diet, related to long-term weight gain.

Study Details:

The researches wanted to focus on what leads to long-term weight gain and why the average adult gains about one pound per year. They followed 120,000 participants in three studies, the Nurses’ Health Study, the Nurses’ Health Study II, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Every four years, they evaluated the links between changes in lifestyle habits and weight.

The study participants gained an average of 3.35 pounds over each four-year period. This added up to almost 17 pounds after 20 years. At the beginning of the three studies, the men and women’s average ages were 37, 50, and 52.

5 Foods that Make You Fat, 5 that Don’t

When the researchers looked more in detail, they found five foods associated with the greatest weight gain over the study period:
• Potato chips
• Other potatoes
• Sugar-sweetened beverages
• Unprocessed red meats
• Processed meats

They also found five foods linked with less weight gain and even weight loss:
• Vegetables
• Whole grains
• Fruits
• Nuts
• Yogurt

Understanding the Findings

In order to avoid weight gain, focusing on the quality of food—not only total calories, or fat grams, or grams of carbohydrates—seems to be most important.

Surprisingly, 50 to 100 extra Calories per day may be sufficient enough to cause gradual weight gain in most people.
Small differences add up over time and this can be either a danger or an opportunity. You can end up packing on pounds quickly if you do not pay attention. However, if you do pay attention, changes could add up in a beneficial way.

Health Vending Machines

Unlike regular, junk food vending machines, healthy vending machines make healthy choices available and easy for you to make. Healthy vending machines can assist you in maintaining a healthy weight while keeping you more than satisfied. As the study above shows, the quality of the food you consume is one of the major factors involved in avoiding weight gain. Healthy vending machines offer quality snacks that won’t sneak on pounds.

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Apricot Snacks from Healthy Vending Machines

July 19, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Learn some interesting facts about apricots and some great-tasting, healthy apricot snacks you can find in healthy vending machines!

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HUMAN Healthy Vending Reviews: Phoenix Arizona

July 12, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

HUMAN Partner Operator DJ Hackett

HUMAN Healthy Vending Phoenix Arizona based operator DJ Hackett talks about his experience of being a healthy vending operator. Before going into vending, he had no vending experience. DJ started out with five machines but quickly decided to expand. He currently owns and operates nine healthy vending machines in schools. The process of finding locations was a quick and simple and he ended up becoming the operator of the entire school district!

Originally, kids were really curious what types of products would be in the machines, thinking it would be full of fruits and vegetables. To their surprise, there were snacks and drinks that went beyond their expectations. Some of the top selling snacks and beverages are Pirates Booty, Chocolate Brownie Clif Z Bars, water, and juice boxes. His personal favorites are Pop Chips and granola bars. He enjoys the freedom of not having to work every day but still making a substantial amount of money and how he can easily monitor his sales online.

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Saturated Fat Does Not Lurk in Healthy Vending Machine Snacks

June 30, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Dietary Fats: Know which Types to Choose

Pick unsaturated fat instead of saturated or trans fat, when choosing fats.

The majority of foods contain many different types of fat, and some are healthier for you than others. Fat does not need to be eliminated from your diet altogether. As a matter of fact, some fats are good for your health. Approximately 20 to 35% of your calorie intake each day should come from fat–mostly healthy, unsaturated fat. It is smart to choose healthier types of dietary fat and avoid unhealthy fats. Healthy vending machine products are delicious, healthy, and were carefully chosen based on nutritional content. Their amazing dieticians have done the work already by providing you with healthy snacks. You may be curious which fats are harmful or healthy for you. Here’s how to differentiate between the different kinds of fat:

Harmful dietary fat

Most fats that have a high amount of saturated fat or trans fat are solid at room temperature and are also known as solid fats. They include beef fat, pork fat, shortening, stick margarine and butter.

Saturated fat.

Derived from animal sources of food
Increases total blood cholesterol levels and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels
Can put you at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease
May increase risk of type 2 diabetes

Trans fat.

Occurs naturally in certain foods, especially foods from animals
Majority of trans fats are created during food processing though partial hydrogenation of unsaturated fats–>Process makes fats which are easier to cook with and have less of a likelihood of spoiling compared to naturally occurring oils
Called industrial or synthetic trans fats
Can increase unhealthy LDL cholesterol and lower healthy high density lipoprotein

(HDL) cholesterol
Increases risk of cardiovascular disease

Healthier dietary fat

Foods made up mostly of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature, such as olive oil, safflower oil, peanut oil and corn oil.

Monounsaturated fat.

Found in many foods and oils
Improves blood cholesterol levels, which can lessen your risk of heart disease
May help insulin levels and blood sugar control, which is especially beneficial if you have type 2 diabetes

Polyunsaturated fat.

Found in many plant-based foods and oils
Improves blood cholesterol levels, which can decrease your risk of heart disease
May help decrease risk of type 2 diabetes
Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of polyunsaturated fat that may be very beneficial to your heart
Omega-3s, found in some types of fatty fish, decrease the risk of coronary artery disease
Protects against irregular heartbeats and helps lower blood pressure

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Break Your Sugar Addiction with Healthy Vending Machines

June 27, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Sugar

A sugary diet not only causes weight gain—researchers have also concluded that it can make your skin look less vibrant and more wrinkled. This is due to a natural occurring process called glycation, where sugar in your bloodstram latches on to proteins to form damaging, new molecules called advanced glycation end products (AGEs). The more sugar you consume, the more AGEs you will develop. These harm surrounding proteins like collagen and elastin, which keep skin youthful, firm, and elastic. Wrinkling and sagging occurs after these proteins are damaged and collagen and elastin become dry and weak. According to a study published in the British Journal of Dermatology, these effects begin around the age of 35 and increase fairly quickly after that.

Smart Tip:

Limit added sugar to no more than 10% of total calories. *It’s difficult to eliminate sugar altogether, but limiting sugar can help.

Example:

For a 45-year-old woman of average height (5-foot-4), that is 160 calories or 10 teaspoons from added sugar which is about the same as a single can of Coca-Cola or six Hershey’s Kisses.

Facts:

The average American consumes 31 teaspoons of added sugar that equals 465 calories.

Sugar is often in unexpected foods, such as salad dressing.

Several prepared foods contain heavy amounts of sugar but it is hidden under different names like barley malt, corn syrup, dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, maltose, maple syrup, molasses, and turnbinado in the ingredients list. Beware of these sneaky labels that can add surprising amounts of sugar into products.

Healthy vending machines offer thousands of products that passed both a health and a taste test. Healthy vending was created by a biomedical engineer and has a health advisory board which includes medical doctors, certified nutritionists, registered dieticians, and public health specialists. Health and nutrition is their specialty. Their products are natural, organic, and are most definitely NOT loaded with sugar like the majority of products you will find in vending machines today.

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Healthy Vending Machines Offer a Balanced Fruit Diet

June 27, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Learn the importance of including fruit in your balanced diet and what delicious healthy vending machines fruit snacks there are to choose from!

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Fast Food is Like Poison–Kids’ Health is at Risk

June 23, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Fast food restaurants are marketing to children at a young age and are having a negative effect on children‘s food consumption choices. They are contributing to childhood obesity and possibly obesity later in life.

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Quench Your Thirst with Vitaminwater from Healthy Vending Machines

June 17, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Vitaminwater

Instead of drinking plain, old water, Vitamin Water offers a great-tasting, healthy alternative that hydrates you and gives you plenty of energy. It is nutritious, delicious, and comes in a variety of different flavors. Find them in healthy vending machines in your favorite flavors.

How Vitaminwater Works

Water and vitamins are two of the most vital substances available to us. They carry out important functions within our bodies and help us stay alive and help sustain our health. Deficiencies would develop and our bodies would react negatively without water and vitamins. Vitaminwater fused the two by combining distilled water with vitamins, herbs and flavors. There are a wide variety of flavors and styles including “endurance,” “power-c” and “vital-t”. Vitaminwater is healthy choice in comparison to controversial energy drinks.

Ingredients

Vitaminwater is made of vapor distilled, deionized, and reverse osmosis filtered water, crystailline fructose as a sweetener, citric acid, electrolytes, natural flavors, and vitamins, including Vitamin C, B3, B5, B6, B12, and E. Additional ingredients are mixed in depending on the flavor and purpose of the drink. Each drink contains 33 grams of sugar in a 20 ounce bottle which is about 8 teaspoons of sugar. Coca Cola contains 65 grams of sugar in a 20 ounce bottle which is about 16 teaspoons of sugar—double that of Vitamin Water! Vitaminwater contains between 100 to 125 calories, which can be burned off fairly quickly.

What’s in Vitaminwater?

Nutrition Facts (Per 2.5 oz serving):

Calories: 50
Total fat: 0g
Sodium: 0mg
Potassium: 60mg
Total carbohydrates: 13g
Sugar: 13g
Protein: 0g
Vitamin C: 40%, Vitamin B3: 20%, Vitamin B6: 20%, Vitamin B12: 20%, Vitamin B5: 20%
Potassium: 150mg per bottle

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Gyms Make Unique Discovery: Healthy Vending Machines

June 16, 2011 By Cheri Noone 4 Comments

Having healthy vending machines in gyms is not only beneficial for gym members; it also has many advantages for the gym owners. Gyms that have smoothie bars, coolers, or counter-top displays are most likely losing money and would be better off if they did not offer these services. Here are some reasons why:

First of all, it costs a decent sum of money to hire workers to run the smoothie bars.
Employees and gym members may be stealing drinks from unlocked coolers and snacks and bars from counter-top displays more often than you know.
The majority of gyms do not keep accurate record of inventory and transactions that occur in their business. This causes products to go bad and money to be lost.
Gyms need to focus on selling gym memberships and personal training sessions rather than focusing so much on selling healthy foods and drinks which leads to less quality service.
Gyms do not receive volume pricing discounts like large distributors do, which leads to small retail margins.
Gyms are intended for exercise and not the traditional style of shopping.

There is a way to eliminate theft and employee transactions, and increase profits through digital ad revenue (paid to the gym for the healthy ads on the vending machines’ LCD screens) and sales commissions. Healthy vending machines can do this and offer its customers both nutrition and taste. In order to make a gym stand out and have customers choose one gym over another, invest in healthy vending machines and enjoy satisfying customers while increasing profit.

The only way to make a gym unique is to offer better products, better service and a better environment than the competition. Healthy vending machines will help you do this.

What is important in life is being happy and being healthy!!!

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Part II: The Top 5 Reasons to Drink Coffee from Healthy Vending Machines

June 15, 2011 By Cheri Noone Leave a Comment

Drinking coffee in moderation has several health benefits associated with it. You can find organic coffee in healthy vending machines!

Coffee decreases the likelihood of developing:

# 5 Gallstones. Coffee drinkers have a lower chance of suffering from symptomatic gallstone disease, possibly because coffee changes the cholesterol content of the bile produced by the liver.

#4 Diabetes. Heavy coffee drinkers may face half the likelihood of getting diabetes versus light drinkers or nondrinkers. Coffee might contain ingredients that lower blood sugar. Drinking coffee regularly may also speed up your metabolism rate, which could help keep diabetes away.

#3 Stroke. Coffee has been shown to decrease the risk of stroke for women. This could be due to the high amounts of antioxidants that prevent inflammation and can help your blood vessel function to improve.

#2 Parkinson’s Disease. Coffee seems to protect men but not women against Parkinson’s disease. The sex difference may be because estrogen and caffeine require the same enzymes to be metabolized, and estrogen captures those enzymes.

#1 Cancer. Coffee may help prevent cancer. Researchers have discovered that coffee drinkers were 50 percent less likely to get liver cancer compared to nondrinkers. Also, a few studies have found ties to lower rates of colon, breast and rectal cancers.

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