Author: Brenda Coxe

Whenever you read the newspaper or listen to the radio or television someone is always preaching about learning how to make good choices in the foods and snacks we feed our families. The problem is they don’t give us any specifics on how to do that. On rare occasions you will see someone encouraging us to eat more fruits and vegetables or take vitamins to make up for the loss of nutrients in the food we eat. Instead of encouraging us to take vitamins and dietary supplements, they should be encouraging us to learn to eat right so that we won’t need to rely so much on dietary supplements.

If no one is giving any information on how to make good eating choices, how are we supposed to know? The best way to do that other than taking time to attend nutrition classes is to conduct some research on the subjects. The library, bookstores, and the Internet are full of information on eating for good health. Reading and surfing the net are probably the two best ways to obtain the information you need because they are the easiest sources of information.

Most of us learned about good nutrition when we were in school but as we have become adults, we have ceased to see the importance. The problem with that line of thinking is that it brushes off on the kids, and they adapt our attitude. This is especially true if we attempt to force the children to eat healthy while we continue to eat junk food and make other unhealthy choices. Like any other method of rearing our children, they will not accept “Do as I say and not as I do” for an answer nor should we as parents expect them to do so. Parents need to set the example for their children, and that begins with healthy eating.

We cannot expect our children to adapt healthy eating habits unless we instill them into them at an early age. The problem develops when we as parents don’t fully understand the importance of teaching our children healthy eating. We cannot teach them healthy eating if we don’t know what it entails ourselves. Before a parent can teach their children, they must learn themselves. YoNaturals is attempting to do something about this problem by introducing the children to healthy and organic foods and snacks. It may not completely solve the problem but it is a step in the right direction. We cannot expect the change to occur overnight, but we are headed into the right direction.

If you want to learn healthy eating, the first thing you need to do is learn the basics of the process and what foods you should eat to maintain good health. Eating healthy means no just eating foods that are nutritionally balance but knowing how much to eat and how to supplement anything that is lacking in your diet. Healthy eating also involves including all of the nutrients you need, preferably in the food you eat though supplements are not out of the question.

Healthy eating means putting into your body those nutrients that the body needs for you to maintain good health. Of course, that can also include other products such as water, a necessary element for the body. It’s important for the body to maintain a good balance of nutritious foods in order to stay healthy, and of course, drinking water is part of that balance. Many people don’t drink enough water and failure to drink enough water prevents the body from flushing out old stale water that still remains. It means the body will use the water that is available for the things that require water, and if that water is not fresh, the body can succumb to illnesses such as kidney disease and bladder infections in addition to other conditions.

Healthy eating means controlling the portions of food you eat, especially those foods that contain empty calories. Choosing to eat healthier meals and snacks will help you maintain good health and boost your immune system and metabolism. It’s important for both systems to be in high gear—the immune system prevents disease and the metabolism helps the body burn the calories you eat. You can actually eat an abundance of food as long as your metabolism is in top shape and you exercise to burn off the calories you consume.

Once you learn the basics of healthy eating you will find it easy to make good choices in the foods you eat. Adults and children both need to know how the foods they eat affect their health in order to understand the importance of eating whole grain cereals instead of pre-sweetened cereals, for example. Healthy eating goes beyond just eating foods that are good for you; it includes eating the right foods in the right quantities in order to satisfy the body’s nutritional needs. Choosing those foods that the body can utilize for all of its voluntary and involuntary functions will assure the good health of everyone. YoNaturals is working to help parents understand the importance of seeing that their children eat healthy by encouraging them to provide children with healthy and organic snacks instead of those with empty calories.

Author: Brenda Coxe

Author: Jessica Vachal

Eating healthfully is not something that we can put off day after day after day. Most of us do this however, because you don’t look at eating healthfully as a way of life and we look at it, instead, as a way to lose weight or trim up, or get smaller. The fact is, we need to be looking at eating healthfully as a requirement for life. The same way we need to breathe, we need to eat healthy foods that will allow our bodies to stay healthy for as long as we can. We are supposed to be eating for our futures when we strive to eat healthfully, but far too many of us are simply eating for that summer bathing suit for the school reunion coming up.

The point is that most Americans think that they look the way they look for any number of reasons, but that it is a predetermined seize, shape, what-have-you. We seem to understand that in some cases this is not the case, and we can all manage to trim down and tone up if we dedicate ourselves to the gym and eat more fruits and vegetables instead of French fries and sodas. Yet we only seem to connect the two thoughts – that eating healthy and exercising can help us to get slimmer and “reshape” our bodies in a manner of speaking – for the period of time in which we are excited about our reshape-the-body plan. Once that initial excitement wears off, so does our dedication to what may have been a rather extreme diet-and-exercise program.

Eating healthfully needs to be a part of your everyday life, regardless of weight loss goals or life changes. You need to dedicate yourself to eating fruits and vegetables everyday rather than eating processed foods or fast foods. It is for your heart and your mind and your body as a whole that you must make this sacrifice, and if you lose weight, trim down and fit better into your clothes, that can surely be a bonus! Of course it gets hard, not every employer offers a YoNaturals vending machine in the break room offering organic juices and organic snacks, but you can make moves to ensure that your snacking will be healthy, from packing carrot sticks to keeping apples in your desk.

The only way you will see results is if you start today, and stay committed. Eating healthy is a lifestyle, and one of the biggest obstacles is the utter lack of healthy options in most public places. YoNaturals is trying to change this by proliferating organic and natural snacks and drinks in healthy vending machines in schools, gyms, hospitals, and offices. If you are interested in starting your own healthy vending business and promoting health throughout the places you go on a daily basis, contact YoNaturals and find out what you can do to better our lifestyles.

Jessica Vachal

Everyone who reprimands about snacking needs to be careful and change up how they reprimand. After all, snacking itself is not a problem for most Americans who are capable of making sure that they snack on healthy foods – fruits and vegetables are your safest bets. It is those who get sidetracked by ice cream and cookies and have the guts – no pun intended – to call those snacks that we fun into trouble. After all, everyone knows that snacks that are full in sugar and refined sugars at that are just not very healthy for you and that those are the snacks we all ought to steer clear of. If you must snack, go for cut up carrots in a baggie or an apple or two.

Life is hectic enough and it can definitely be easy to get caught up in the moment of your hunger and the fact that all you can think of wanting to eat is a Twinkie or a Snickers bar. You think that you’ve been good all day, that you went to eh gym three times last week, and that surely one Snickers bar, when you are as hunger as you are right now, cannot possibly be so bad as people could make it out to be. Yet, that Snickers bar is not going to leave you feeling full for very long and then you are going to want to get another Snickers bar, or worse still a bag of chips, and then you are going to be taking in several hundred more calories than you need and you are going to be suffering quiet a stomachache and a blow to the ego once all those calories have been ingested and digested.

The fact is, hunger is a vicious enemy to anyone who is trying to eat healthy, and that is precisely why you should do what you can to ensure that you can eat healthy snacks – you have to arm yourself just like your mother armed you in elementary school for those joyful fieldtrips and regular old Mondays. Going to the vending machine is, of course, a tempting alternative to packing snacks or even to those lunches that used to be all packed and ready to go for you. You don’t have to think ahead, there will definitely be good waiting for you, and if you have the right amount of change, then you should be set. But your waistline will not thank you and neither will your guilt once your initial hunger has been staved off. Unless, of course you have YoNaturals organic fruit juices and organic snacks to choose from, you are going to be dealing with some pretty heavy guilt, and an equally heavy tread as your trips to the vending machines are going to cause you some weight gain.