Article: Six Massachusetts Schools Systems to Introduce Health-Food Vending Machines.

By Jamie Vaznis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 17--WARWICK, R.I. -- The Coca-Cola, Snickers bars, and Skittles in the vending machines at Toll Gate High School should tempt any teenager. But every morning, John Katsetos snubs those treats in favor of something all-natural.

The 16-year-old junior slips a dollar into the school's newest vending machine and retrieves a bottle of chocolate soymilk.

"Most kids think soy and go ew, but it [tastes] nice going down," said Katsetos, a Toll Gate baseball player who never drank soymilk until the school installed the vending machine last fall.

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