Healthy eating along the highway

The Iowa Department of Public Health has received a grant to place healthy food options in highway rest area vending machines. They put traffic light colored stickers on each snack to let people know what snacks are the healthiest (green), healthy (yellow), and not healthy (red). A consultant to the program said they saw an increase in people choosing the green and yellow snacks after 16 weeks of trying out the program. They are looking to increase the amount of healthy choices in the vending machines to 30% by November of this year.

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