At least I have my kids happiness in mind.
(/needless sarcasm clarification)
They'd do better to just cut portion sizes. A "snack" should be no more than 150-200 calories, but the average calorie content of vending machine selections is usually at least twice that much.
When I was a drifter, I walked a lot, I carried a heavy pack, I procured and cooked my meals under varying circumstances. And subsequently, I was in the best shape of my life. When I returned to "normal" life, one of the hardest things was trying to hold on to that daily allowance of walking, and the way it just fit into your daily chores of cadging a living.
When you drive everywhere, when you have every convenience, when you're only exercise at work is walking to the elevator, and you reach middle age, it gets tougher and tougher. Nevermind the fact that the meal at the end of the day is partly a reward for suffering through the BS day. Not making excuses for people, but the cards are stacked against them. Or else I'm wrong.
This is the joke of the day, right?
I can't imagine any kid dropping a dollar bill in any vending machine and then pondering a moment about which color corresponds with the least junky of the junk foods.
The vending machine poobahs take for granted that kids might be stupid about eating habits, but thinks the rest of the world is full of 7th graders too, obviously.
This is all feel good CYA stuff for when the school kids now are grown up and weigh 410 pounds. Then the vending machine companies can say, "but we color coded our stuff! It's not our fault Johnny didn't pick the right color." What a waste of energy and colored stickers.
OK the article got worse toward the end.
Back in my day, which was a while back, if you couldn't afford tickets to the prom, then you didn't go or either cut the neighbors' grass, babysat kids, or whatever. You didn't go out and make X% of your classmates obese so you could win a free ticket to the prom. No wonder we are raising a generation of parasites that thinks someone owes them something they can't buy.
Critics of American enterprise say all sorts of dumb things for which they have no evidence.
That is so gay! People are gonna eat what they crave. Common sense tells you there are some things that shouldn't be eaten all the time. If one lacks this common sense, what good is a color code to them?