New York Hospital CEO Who Defended Vending Products Will Join City's Unhealthy Snack Ban

Oct. 2, 2012

Dr. Richard Becker, CEO of Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., has announced the center is actively working on a plan to follow the mayor's guidelines for snacks in the hospital vending machines that bans so-called "junk food," according to New York Daily News. Previously, Becker was reported to defend the food in hospital vending machines as comforting to people in a crisis. Full article.

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New York City Urges Private Hospitals To Add Healthy Vending Products

Sept. 25, 2012

New York City is asking private hospitals to stop giving patients access to certain vending foods, in favor of healthy items like nuts and baked chips according to NY1 News. The...