One of our main concerns at YoNaturals, and the purpose behind our business, is to combat obesity in our children. It is little wonder why the problem with obesity continues to soar when you look at the fact that 10 states do not provide any specific nutritional assessment and coverage for obese adults under their Medicaid programs while 20 of them do not even cover it. Yet at the same time they put out thousands of dollars in funding for weight-related illnesses such as diabetes. In 37 states the number of adults suffered from obesity increased while 28 states report that at least twenty-five percent of their adult population is obese. The statistics are sad but true and go to show how serious the problem with adult obesity has become. Our children suffer the most in this epidemic yet eighteen states have regulations that require school meals to exceed USDA nutritional standards.
One thing we do need to consider is that for many students, their school lunch is the only good meal they eat, so there seems to be the feeling that schools should make up for the lack of nutrition for those students. The problem is not all of the students fall into that category, so the schools are overfeeding even those who have abundant food at home. Many of these meals are not as nutritionally balanced as they appear with many meals consisting of high calorie foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza and other foods that those from poor families are probably already eating at home because they are cheap meals.
YoNaturals may not be able to see what students are eating at home but they provide ways for students to have snacks that are both natural and healthy instead of what one ordinarily finds in vending machines. Organic and natural juices replace high calorie soft drinks while other snack foods provide nutrition rather than empty calories. These may include things such as nuts, yogurt bars, granola bars, fresh fruit, raisins and other types of snacks in their natural and organic state. Although there is far more than meets the eye when it comes to the obesity epidemic among our children, YoNaturals attempts to do its part to decrease the problem by making healthy vending machine products available.
If each person would exchange the high calorie vending machine foods for the natural and organic variety that YoNaturals provides, it would make a dent in the problem of obesity in our children. Certainly there are other things that need done as well, but if you start with snacks our children have at school and those provided by some employers, we will be on our way to reducing the number of cases of obesity that exists in children and adults.
