As more and more innovative ways come up to curb obesity and promote healthy eating habits, companies are putting their creativity upfront. Food companies are trying to gain new customers by introducing healthy offerings like natural french fries, natural and organic menu are being served in restos, vending machines offers natural, healthy content.

Vending machines has been touted as offering unhealthy and non-nutritious foods and were even the subjects of debate among concerned parents because of junk foods being dispensed in the machines. With the bad notion about vending machines, more and more fresh vending machines are finding a way to give consumers healthy food content.

One of which is the newest food advancement to promote healthy eating habits. Baby carrots, an orange root vegetable, will have a major make-over soon. They will be dubbed as “the original orange doodles,” and will be packed in Doritos-style bags which will be included on vending machines’ content placed across the US. American carrot growers were inspired from current junk food ads that they launch a $25 million marketing campaign to introduce cool carrot to substitute junk foods in vending machines.

Gameday is literally right around the corner, and we continue to preview tomorrow's game with a five-question interview with  Jeremy Mauss  of  Mountain West Connection . Jeremy and his crew do a great job covering the Mountain West Conference for SB Nation. Stop by and say hello, if you haven't already.   

UPDATE : If you want to see how well Andy and myself  handled Jeremy's questions , you can head over to MWC and find out for yourself. 

I spent a decent amount of time trying to understand Gary Patterson's 4-2-5 defense-- how does TCU plan to use it to stop the OSU offense? Are they satisfied with keeping six guys in the box with Quizz in the backfield? Or will we see the safeties spend attention on stopping the run?

Trying to understand their defense is a feat, but I think TCU may bring more pressure up front not necessarily to stop Jacquizz but to bring more pressure against a brand new quarterback who is lacking experience. I would expect at least six in the box and possibly seven or eight depending on the formation of the Oregon State offense. In the 4-2-5 defense most of the safeties can be brought up to play a linebacker role since they have a good combination of size and speed. It will be interesting to see James and Jacquizz Rogers in the open field because TCU puts nearly all of their speed on the defensive side of the ball.

WASHINGTON -- Federal health regulators are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands of people to the hospital each year.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday posted its review of dextromethorphan, an ingredient found in more than 100 over-the-counter medications that is sometimes abused for its euphoric effects. The practice, dubbed "robotripping," involves taking more than 25 times the recommended dose of a cold medicine and is mainly associated with teenagers.

At high doses the drug causes increased blood pressure, heart rate and fever. Abusers can also suffer side effects from other ingredients mixed in cough medicines, such as acetaminophen, which can cause liver damage.

"Because of the drug's perceived safety, ease of availability, and desired psychoactive effects, it is sought...

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I have totally changed my diet as I was eating far too many takeaways, but I am finding totally cutting out chocolate and coca cola really hard. I have tried replacing it with apple etc but its not working!

A: chocolate rice cakes are 60 calories for a full cake. so it will fill you up and satisfy your sweet tooth. however, it miht make it harder to resist real chocolate, so. .

apple cinnamon rice cakes are 50 calories, and they work to satisfy