Is your school fully on board with healthy nutrition?

Years — even decades, after the dangers of an unhealthy diet have been exposed and thoroughly discussed by the media, many schools continue to get failing grades for food choices served up in their lunchrooms and school vending machines.

With obesity rates continuing to soar among American children, one might be forgiven for taking the dimmest view of school administrators who still allow more than the occasional pizza entree to occupy the lunchtime menus of school cafeterias.  But it seems that reasons, often credible sounding ones, can still be found for lunchtime pizza, burritos, french fries and sugary desserts.

And then there’s the “need” for extra revenues generated by those school vending machines dispensing junk foods loaded with fats, salts and yet more carbohydrates — oftentimes placed in schools through exclusive contracts with food and drink companies which seek to smother competition, even of a healthier sort.

The inescapable bottom line is that childhood obesity rates continue to worsen across the country.  Among both boys and girls.  And in all age groups.

Yo Naturals healthy vending machines and our growing corps of Yo Naturals distributors are focused on finding real solutions to the childhood obesity problem, by providing healthy snack food and drink choices — and a symbolic, meaningful, healthy foods presence in every school across the land.

The hundreds of healthy items which our distinctive YoZone, YoThirsty and YoHungry machines serve up are all delicious, daily reminders that the nutrition lessons learned in health classes are real-world stuff, and of immediate importance to those who wish to avoid the health problems which a lifetime of ignoring healthy nutrition too often brings.

The great challenge of education is to teach in a way which shows the immediate relevance of what is being learned.  For too long, the essential lessons of good and healthy nutrition have been undermined by schools where healthy diet isn’t given its full importance.

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