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In the morning, I can come in and I can preview some of my work orders. work orders
but then after you get your work orders, you definitely get out on the road.
You don't really get an opportunity to have a balanced meal during the day
You don't really get an opportunity to have a balanced meal during the day
so you just grab what you can.
Sometimes the vending machine is a friend.
The machine is right there and that's what makes it good.
Get Healthy Philly is an initiative out of the health commisioner's office.
We started this vending initiative because we recognized that the city
is both a model as the government and also a big work site.
I think healthy vending really is a simple first step to make the
healthy choice the easy choice because you already sort of decided
that food is going to be available, so it's just the next step of saying
we want to make sure that more of these foods are healthier foods.
65% percent of the machine had to be snacks that met
certain nutrition criteria that our dietitians looked at.
Once I was introduced to the healthier snacks in the vending machine,
it taught me how to do what I needed to do at home
to carry it through and to make it part of my lifestyle.
I almost eliminated the saturated or trans fats.
It's helping with reducing weight because
every time I go back to my doctors its one pound less.
Now my choices are better choices and they're healthier choices.
It gives you an option and the healthier option is always better.