YoNaturals Launches Middle and High School Healthy Vending Nationwide

    SOLANA BEACH, CA, October 28, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- YoNaturals launched its 'School Healthy Vending' campaign aimed at hitting junk food companies where it hurts the most - and where they hurt us the most - in our schools. With child obesity, early onset diabetes and other epidemics spiraling out of control in America, YoNaturals is fervently doing its part to weaken the stranglehold that the soda and junk food industries have on our youth.

Anyone interested in the grim statistics on childhood obesity can readily find them; the irrefutable conclusion across the board is that obesity rates are increasing steadily and rapidly, and that obese children are overwhelmingly likely to become obese adults. The other undeniable facts are that the main cause of this epidemic is our atrocious dietary habits, and that such habits are most often formed early in our youth. These unfortunate facts are the impetus behind the formation of YoNaturals and the School Healthy Vending program.

YoNaturals released a new line of state-of-the-art healthy vending machines concurrently with the new school Vending program; the "YoThirsty" and the "YoHungry" vend only drinks or only snacks, respectively, and they join the 'combo vending machine' known as the "YoZone" which houses both simultaneously. All the machines are temperature controlled and can be outfitted to accept debit/credit cards or programmed to take tokens or other forms of student payment.

"Schools can choose from an enormous selection of over 250 nutritious organic and natural vending products which will appeal to students of all ages," says Mark Trotter, CEO of YoNaturals. "All vending products offered by YoNaturals and School Healthy Vending have been carefully chosen to meet all State Nutritional Guidelines."

The program allows schools to lease a machine for $35 a week on a flexible repayment schedule, and the natural and organic products are delivered nationwide free of charge. After the machines pay themselves off through the sale of healthy snacks and drinks, schools keep all the profits, solving two of the biggest problems that our school campuses currently face.

The reach and influence of junk food companies that makes them nothing short of a firmly entrenched establishment in America culture is far from the only difficulty that stands in the way of healthier schools in America; our schools are often their own worst enemy. YoNaturals is attacking the very source of how our students have fallen prey to the profit-hungry corporations in the first place - money.

Left desperate and destitute by lack of funding, many schools have capitulated to the unhealthy vending companies in order to secure an additional source of revenue for underfunded educational programs, and have become seemingly addicted to this income stream. However, YoNaturals is changing this grim scenario one campus at a time; having already secured over 400 school locations for their healthy vending machines prior to the launch of School Healthy Vending program, YoNaturals has shown schools that natural and organic snacks and drinks sell as well, and in many cases much better, than traditional unhealthy vending products.

It seems as if our students, parents and teachers are ready for a change and are willing to invest in their health; now it's time for the school administrations that need to get onboard and start putting their students first.

About YoNaturals

YoNaturals is the U.S. leader in the distribution of healthy vending machines, drinks and snacks to schools, health clubs, hospitals and corporate offices.

Media Contact:
Mark Trotter
YoNaturals Inc.
Telephone: 858-794-9955
Fax: 858-794-9959
Website: http://www.yonaturals.com

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