YoNaturals Vending Against Junk Food in Schools

Type II diabetes, often linked to obesity, poor diet and a lack of exercise in adults, has steadily increased in incidence in America over recent decades.  And twenty-six states have reported increases among their adult populations in the past year, according to a study released this month by the Robert Wood Foundation, an organization active in tracking American health trends.

Especially hard hit have been the Southern states, which include all ten of those states with the highest overall Type II diabetes rates as well as nine of the top ten with adult obesity problems.  Shockingly, in four states more than ten percent of all adults have Type II diabetes.  Northeastern and Western states remain among those least afflicted by adult diabetes and obesity. YoNaturals has noted these grim statistics and we continue to strive harder each day to make our cause known and raise awareness of healthy vending.

Often, the early symptoms of the disease fail to be noticed.  Many diabetics only become aware of their problem as a result of routine tests given to hypertension and hyperlipidemia patients.  Diabetes develops due to a lessened production within the pancreas of insulin (Type I) or a developing resistance by the body to its own insulin (Type II).  Both forms of the disease lead to hyperglycemia, which largely causes the disease’s acute signs:  excessive urine production, resultant increased fluid intake, blurred vision, unexplained weight loss, lethargy, and changes in the body’s overall metabolism.

Adult Type II diabetes can largely be prevented with a healthier lifestyle which includes proper nutrition and regular exercise.  But according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, although some fifty million Americans go on diets each year for various reasons, fewer than five percent of us manage to actually achieve any meaningful long-term weight loss.

Proper nutrition, of course, commonly includes replacing those processed foods high in fats and sugars — with more of the wholesome, natural foods that have been shown to be friendly to the body’s functioning and long-term health.  Vending machines, sometimes thought of as symbolizing the very worst in high-fat, empty-calorie food choices — have undergone somewhat of a metamorphosis in recent years.  YoNaturals, the San Diego firm specializing in creating a vending food market for nutritional foods and drinks, has won the plaudits of that part of the public aware of the need for healthier food choices by introducing over one-hundred snack foods and drinks purposely free of unhealthy ingredients.

In many ways, advances in medical science in recent generations may have caused some to become lax about taking care to properly feed and exercise the only bodies they will ever be issued with.

For the rest of us, an ounce of prevention …

Teens are notorious for spending hours and hours with their friends, oftentimes gathered around heaps of fries, plates of burgers, and overflowing milkshake cups while they commiserate about life. It is a rite of passage portrayed time and again by movies and television shows. In spite of this, one of the most critical duties of a parent is to convince their teenager to maintain a healthy diet throughout these difficult times, because these physical developmental years will have an impact on their health and physical fitness for many years to come.

When thinking about a teen’s diet, it’s important to remember that iron and calcium are two of the most important nutrients that are required by their bodies as they undergo rapid growth and development. Iron is mostly utilized to carry oxygen to muscles in the body, and calcium is important for building strong bones. Although it is important to makes sure that both your sons and your daughters are eating iron-rich and calcium-rich foods, teen girls are usually more susceptible to deficiencies in these areas (for a variety of reasons). Even though growing teenage bodies are adapting to absorb more calcium as the body demands, many teens are simply not eating enough calcium-rich foods to meet those demands, which can cause both short-term and long-term problems.

The good news is that with a little help and guidance from their parents teens can develop and maintain healthy eating habits that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. It is therefore important to not only choose healthy food for your children but also to allow them to make some of those decisions for themselves. Teach them how to meet their diverse nutrient needs by choosing foods from a variety of the food groups (and in proportion to recommended amounts).
Get them into the habit of taking a daily multivitamin, but make sure that they know that no pill can ever be a substitute for a good diet. Allow your teen to make choices (within reason) about the foods that he or she eats. The diet that they develop now will likely be the diet that carries over into their young adult life when they eventually move out from under your roof.

Just as there is no substitute for proper nutrition, there is also no substitute for parents who are dedicated to the health and well-being of their offspring. Take the time to educate your child about the consequences and benefits of the various foods that they put into their bodies. Encourage them to choose healthy snacks from YoNaturals vending machines (even when you are not there with them). Give them a lifetime of good health.

The satisfaction of bringing healthy vending snacks and drinks to local schools, offices and commercial centers is probably nobody’s primary incentive for becoming a YoNaturals quality distributor.

Other, much more compelling reasons come into play.  Like for instance the fact that few enterprises can be launched and provide immediate income as quickly as can a vending machine business.  And with a vending business start-up, over ninety percent of your initial outlay will go into your machines and inventory, rather than being absorbed by the myriad peripheral expenses often associated with other entrepreneurial ventures.  Vending start-ups also require no expensive hired labor in most cases, so you’re spared the hassles and are able to focus on your business.

Then there are the compelling statistics, many of them simply too important for any aspiring entrepreneur to ignore.

Run this past your old Business 101 study group:  While sixty-five percent of new businesses fail within their first year, only five percent of new vending businesses do, according to U.S. Department of Commerce studies.  And eighty-five percent of new vendors are able to expand their businesses into full-time pursuits within just two years!

Furthermore, there are few businesses as protected against the vicissitudes of economic cycles as food and drink vending; fewer still can so quickly deliver a feeling of true independence.

But to return to the article’s original premise — financial reasons aside, what attracts many to a YoNaturals vending partnership is the very notion that retailing wholesome YoNaturals snacks and drinks to a public clamoring for healthy choices is a wonderful thing in itself!  You may be among those who wish that their own children had ready access to the YoNaturals line at their schools, or that their spouses could find quality, wholesome YoNaturals snacks at work, or maybe you yourself have too many bad memories of vending machine options running only to the hyper-salty or the terrifyingly fat-saturated, and you wish to make a positive difference one vending machine at a time!

We at YoNaturals stand proudly prepared to help.  Our YoNaturals distributors benefit from our experienced and seasoned readiness to ease their passage into the world of profitable vending.  Our vending machine lease and purchase options are designed to set you rapidly on the road to entrepreneurial success. After all, we can benefit only from your success!

Let us assist you — today — in seeing just how easy it is to own your own healthy vending business.

The first key step is yours.

Author: Ron Goodden

The modern health problem in America can be boiled down to one very simple underlying battle: convenience vs. health. We don’t want to be obese. We don’t want diabetes and heart problems. We want to eat healthy and take care of our bodies, but it’s so hard to do on a regular basis. What is it that makes eating healthy so incredibly difficult?

The answer is simple. We really want to eat healthy, but we can’t control our impulse eating, according to a report by Food Industry Review. The statistics show very clearly that consumer demand for organic and natural foods has spurred an increase in availability of such foods. Ever keen to hold on to an ever-evolving customer base, supermarkets have slowly begun to offer more and more healthy options, and these programs have met with great success. The American desire for healthy alternatives is clear. So what’s the problem.

The report clearly shows that, despite growing interest in matters concerning health, we are still dominated by our desire to have quick access to food whenever we want it. The report showed that the number lunches eaten in American homes, but purchased elsewhere, is at an all time high. Whether it can be attributed to the hectic, overwhelming lifestyles we lead or simple laziness, we like our convenience. Many countries have longstanding traditions of spending hours talking and socializing with family during mealtimes, which is healthier for a number of reasons; most importantly, they tend ot eat slower and eat better meals. We do not have such traditions in this country in modern times, probably because our modern society makes this impractical on a regular basis.

Regardless of the reasons, these are the facts. The statistics clearly show that even the healthiest of us still give in to our need for a speedy meal from time to time. That’s why we at YoNaturals have taken the route we have with our healthy vending business. To deny the American need for readily available food is to leave that entire portion of our lives to the purveyors of junk food. We must all come to the realization that sometimes people are going to eat whatever is cheap and available, regardless of how healthy they normally are; and many people are going to eat what is quick and available all the time, because they aren’t concerned about health in the slightest. Fast food isn’t going anywhere, for a long time. So if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

We are striving to make vending food and beverages as healthy as people wish they could eat. All organic and natural snacks and drinks means that even the healthiest person will never be stranded without a decent snack, no matter where they are or how quickly they need something to eat. That’s our goal, and if you are interested in learning about how you can contribute to a healthier America, please find out how you can start your own healthy vending business with YoNaturals, or how you can get a healthy vending machine in the place you frequent most often outside the home.

Due mostly to the feet-dragging of schools addicted to the proceeds from junk food vending, schools have been slow to adapt to the demand for healthier vending products for students. There is huge debate over whether healthy snacks and drinks will sell as well, and therefore whether they will bolster the school budget as well as junk food has. Never mind that child obesity and early onset diabetes are ravaging our nation’s youth. Our schools are far more concerned with a few extra text books or computers, seemingly forgetting that junk food makes it more difficult for children to learn, rendering those extra textbooks rather useless.

We’ve really sold our souls to the junk food and soda companies haven’t we? Even worse, we’ve sold our childrens’ souls. Interested in just how powerful their lobbying is? Two weeks ago on September 2nd, 2008, the mayor of Albuquerque banned junk food from city vending machines. Very noble and brave of him, no? He listed numerous well-reasoned and conscientious reasons for doing so, one of the more forward-thinking reasons being that unhealthy vending foods actually increase the cost to taxpayers by creating unhealthier citizens, thus increasing the cost of health care. What we should have seen was a domino affect across the country, with other stats following the mayor’s exemplary decision. After all, it’s not like New Mexico is known for its cutting-edge progressiveness (where was California on this one?).

Nonetheless, what we actually saw was the opposite. Exactly 14 days later (today in fact), Albuquerque’s mayor caved to the pressure from various sources, and is now simply ‘hoping’ that the city will consider some healthier options in the vending machines. So, his order as city leader has been reduced to a polite suggestion.

What better way to illustrate the problem we are facing? Money, money, money. That’s what people care about first and foremost. It’s what got us into this mess, and it’s what is keeping us in this quagmire.It has been shown time and time again that the same revenue can be made from vending machines that provide healthier alternatives, as long as some consideration is given to the taste of the contents. In fact, as Americans become more and more health conscious, people are increasingly avoiding vending machines altogether because they typically don’t contain food that should be consumed by a healthy human being. It would stand to reason that many places would actually make more revenue from vending machines were they to provide healthier options. We must release the grip of the junk food industry if we are to improve the embarrassing health situation in this country.

YoNaturals offers healthy vending machines that offer only natural and organic snacks and drinks. The machines are modern and very neat looking, have the latest technological perks such as cashless payment systems, and even notify vending distributors if certain snacks are running low in real-time. Locations that have acquired a YoNaturals machine are raving about their success. What excuses are left?

It’s time to topple the behemoth that is the junk food and soda vending industry. Their days are numbered, much like the gas-guzzling SUV’s of the last decade. The only question is, how long will it take to do the right thing? Let’s make it sooner rather than later.

From Portland to Wyoming, Los Angeles to Orlando, New York to Texas, all across America more and more people are meeting the clinical standards for obesity. As we have become more affluent as a nation and our choices become less limited, people are making poor choices in regard to what they eat. Our income levels and increasing standard of living have transformed eating out at a restaurant from a thing that you do only on special occasions to a weekly (or sometimes daily) occurrences for many Americans. Plus, as businesses and industries across the land have adopted new technology in order to improve efficiency, the number of people who perform physical labor during their working hours has also decreased. In simple terms, for most of us, our calorie intakes have increased while our calorie-burning activities have decreased.

Considering the imbalance in caloric intake and caloric expenditure, it should surprise no one that our waistlines have matched the growth of our economy. Indeed, this fact has not escaped very many medical or health professionals, or research scientists for that matter. In fact, the change in weight, though gradual, is observable even at your local strip mall or fast food restaurant. There are over 123 million obese or overweight adults in this country, and the number is ever increasing. In fact, our level of obesity has reached the level to be considered epidemic by most of the scientists who keep track of those things.

Furthermore, if you think that this epidemic is any less deadly than the cases of pneumonia, tuberculosis, and other bacterial and viral infections that threatened previous generations, then consider this: this year over 400,000 people will die of complications due to conditions that are related to obesity, conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and adult-onset diabetes. That’s over eleven hundred people per day dying because of a condition that is largely preventable through healthy decision-making.

Indeed, whether obese or not, most people could make healthier decisions about what they eat and the amount of exercise that they get in the course of a week. But the fact of the matter is that it’s sometimes difficult to make the healthy decision or to choose the healthy alternative. However, there is one category where this has just gotten a bit easier: choosing healthy snacks for you and your family. YoNaturals health food vending machines provide quick and easy alternatives to the traditional snack and soda machines that people are used to eating from. However, by choosing your snack from the YoNaturals machine instead, you are not only fulfilling your basic need to eat, you are also helping combat the obesity epidemic by standing up for good health.

Author: Laura Rayburn

Feeling good is undeniably one of the biggest highlights of life in general. When you’re feeling under the weather, your day is bound to go poorly, and even if you are in a bad mood that can severely hinder the enjoyment you will be able to derive from any given day or event. There are a million things being toted on any given day as mood enhancers and feel-good massages, locations, even dates. However, the biggest pull to making you feel food day in and day out, is to keep your diet balanced.

That’s right; it sounds silly and a little like grandmother, but if you keep yourself on a regular, healthful diet, then you are sure to live each day to its highest potentials because you are, quite simply, going to feel tremendous. The best way to ensure that you are getting the best foods into your body is to eat a food from every color of the rainbow. Unfortunately, that does not mean chocolates for brown, Twinkies for yellow, and Jell-O for purple. Rather that means you ought to eat apples for red, eggplant for purple, celery for green, blueberries for blue, and so on and so forth. Making sure that you get fresh fruits and vegetables into your diet everyday is a great way to make sure that you are getting yourself off on the right foot for the daily demands of your undoubtedly busy life.

It’s true, eating healthfully does not just mean eating smaller portions and cutting out how much chocolate and sugar you have after every meal. Rather, eating healthfully means that you have to get the good foods into your body much more consistently and regularly than you get the poor junk foods into your body. Eat your carrots and your cauliflower rather than eating chocolate candies and chips. You may crave salt? Get yourself some canned soup! There’s plenty of salt in there and, it can be expected, some nutrients and vegetables in there too. Want sweet? Try some raisins or berries and fruits. There are always plenty of options other than junk foods, and while it can be hard to not go running to the vending machine during a midday hunger pang, you might just be lucky should you be able to run to a YoNaturals vending machine, which boasts organic juices and organic snacks that will keep your waist trim and your stomach happy. Eating healthfully doesn’t have to be hard; you just have to keep an eye on how you do it!