Wellness

In this day and age, when life is so busy, a quick snack or lunch on the run is common, you have to wonder... how healthy is this?

Virtually all of the world's vending machines are filled with foods and beverages that are harmful to the body. Studies have shown that consuming sodas and junk foods can cause a number of critical conditions such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and hypertension. A number of important health trends have combined to drive demand for more healthy organic foods and beverages in vending machines:

• 60% of Australians and nearly half of New Zealand are either overweight or obese.
• 50 million Americans are either on or have tried low carb diets such as Atkins.
• One in three Australians claim to be on some form of diet.
• The Low Carb business is estimated to be worth $30 billion dollars. $9.4 billion of this is in the U.S.
  (More then Coca-Cola generates through sales of all its products).
• The Health food business in Australia is worth close to $1 billion dollars.
• 1558 new Low Carb products have been introduced since the end of 2008.
• 194 Low Carb books are in print for this years end.
• 60% of all workers eat their lunch in the office each day making health food and snack vending their most convenient source of food supply.