YoNaturals Vending Against Junk Food in Schools

Author: Jessica Vachal

The desire to eat healthy can be a hard one to maintain, even if it’s an easy concept to come up with. Truly, there are probably numerous days out of the week when you find yourself reprimanding yourself over a food choice or eating a piece of cake for a co-worker’s birthday and promising yourself that “you’ll do better tomorrow.” YoNaturals is a business that believes the key is recognizing that there are no “good” or “bad” ways of eating. There are, however, healthier ways to eat than others.

The fact of the matter is that if food comes from the earth, naturally, then it is bound to be a healthful choice. This goes for beef and chicken just as much as it goes for apples and carrots. Of course there are discrepancies with this sort of thinking, as today there are genetically-modified foods coming out into the market and scares of fats in meat-heavy diets. Still, as a general rule, a meal of chicken and vegetables with rice is going to do much more for you than is a meal of crackers, cheez-whiz and soda with a candy bar for dessert.

Eating healthfully does not have to be as much of a battle as it generally seems to become for most people. The stress that a “healthy” meal takes so much time to prepare while you can zap a frozen dinner in the microwave for a few minutes and be good to go is, frankly, unwarranted. True you can’t stick a zucchini in the microwave and have a meal in three minutes, but you can cut up a zucchini and a potato, put them in a frying pan with some olive oil, sauté the whole thing up, and have a healthy meal within fifteen minutes. Complete with leftovers to take to work the next day to help you combat your starving body’s desire for that co-worker’s birthday cake.

The point is that eating healthfully can be easy if you have simple rules to keep in mind. Starting with healthy ingredients is one of the easiest rules to have to remember. If you have carrots, broccoli, rice and chicken you are inevitably going to come up with a more healthful – and equally delicious – meal than you would if you started out with bread, butter and ham. Having that bread, butter and ham with the carrot-broccoli-rice-chicken meal, however, would make for a very healthful meal.

“Don’t cut anything out” is another great rule to remember. As in the scenario above, you can eat a little butter with your meal, you can eat meat, and you can eat sweets. You just can’t eat these foods as the basis of your meals, and you don’t want to eat too much of them when you do consume them. Not eating chocolate for three weeks but then eating an entire package of chocolate after dinner is not going to benefit your body in any way.

Make sure you listen to what your body wants and feed it accordingly. If you’re craving sweet, eat an orange or an apple before you go for the unnatural sugars. Try to satisfy your cravings with those foods found in nature we mentioned above, and your body will thank you for it. And when you want that chocolate bar, have some. Just don’t eat it all – leave some for the next time your chocolate craving hits you. The improved way you’ll feel once you start eating more healthfully will truly be a great pay-off for foregoing a third-night-in-a-row of pizza. And feeling better is YoNaturals’ business!