Junk Food Should Be Mandatory For School Schools

As society develops, people try to do exercise and eat healthy food for self-management. However, many countries government prohibit selling the junk food vending machine at schools and prohibit advertisement junk food after seven pm because of increase obesity. To prevent junk food, the governments should not be banned because the students have right to choose through eating junk food, ambiguous consume junk food, and students can feel happy and save their time.

It is an established fact that childhood obesity in America is a developing disease that has become an epidemic with ongoing psychological effects, this is due to many reasons, among them are the wide spread of fast-food advertisements and bill boards, the lack of physical activities and parental control. This has made food become a major health issue in many young teenagers’ life today.

Many Americans are suffering from nutrition issues. There are approximately 12.5 million children and adolescents aged 2-19 years that are obese (CDC). The proper health and nutrition for children is very critical to their growth and development. The media and its promotion of junk food is one way that affects obese children. Within this paper, I will discuss the long and short term

The obesity epidemic here in the United States affects a mass portion of all children and adolescents. The rapid growth in childhood obesity has become a prevalent health concern that is overlooked due to its’ normality. The main focus of this issue has always been fixated on how to help those facing current problems with obesity. Instead, attention needs to be brought to the prevention of our country’s #1 leading health concern, which has yet to be compromised. This ignorance has led millions of children ill-educated on the importance of lifestyle and the simple concept that “we are what we eat”. The reality of this issue is not one many want to take responsibility for, but the significant impact education has on what children consume is greater than we may think. The lack of effort in our education system and the simple changes in the education we provide can significantly help reduce the obesity crisis we face. Our education career is one of the most influential aspects of all of our lives and though most of children’s time is spent in school, it lacks teaching the importance of food, the consequences of unhealthy diets and its’ little value on health as being part of our future success.

The organization of Debatewise stated that controlling the foods that students consume is important in combating obesity, as the dieting habits that most people form originate from when they were young. This is why it’s so crucial for schools to introduce healthier options in schools. If these unhealthy habits are developed, the students are “at higher risk for having other chronic health conditions and diseases that impact physical health..”, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These conditions can affect them emotionally and physically, including depression and obesity, which are important health issues both linked with the consumption of junk foods. The selling of junk food in schools is not a small problem either, as it concludes from a study by the Institute of Medicine in 2003 that elementary schools earn approximately $442 million annually from junk food sales. The importance of changing the school lunch programs to implement healthier options is high when there is so much money being spent by the students. Although obesity is a real problem due to the selling of junk food, it can lead to other problems that leading a healthier way of living could fix. For instance, the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension states junk foods, due to processing that removes vitamins, minerals, and fiber from the product, are empty calories that are ultimately worthless to the body. This alone contributes to unneeded weight gain and provides no additional sustenances that help the body grow. The Harvard Health Publications describes this to be a serious problem, and acknowledge not only this to be a complication, but mentions the unnecessarily high amounts of sodium levels in the foods, stating that “...the average

Many schools around the nation are feeding unhealthy food products to children, such as fries, sodas, sweets from vending machines. It is shown that, “an estimated 17% of children and adolescents ages 2-19 years are obese according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”

“Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.” (Subodh Gupta) In 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act gave the federal government additional authority to set standards for food sold in school grounds. This enforced schools to require fruits and vegetables in their school lunches every day. Although this act was implemented, parents of students going to schools still contend that school lunches are substandard and should be amended immediately. For the betterment of children, school lunches should be enhanced due to the fact that it’s excessively fattening, it could hinder a child’s thinking process in class, but it would be difficult to improve it.

As many countries succeeded in fighting obesity, applying the same strategies used by those countries may solve obesity problem in the United States. To fight obesity, we have always tried the same methods which includes raising awareness, clarify the side effects of fast food and making cheap food easily reachable to everyone. No matter how great those ideas are and how wide they are applicable, obesity still concerns 70 % Americans. As a result, thinking outside of the box and applying several new ideas may help us improving overweight and obesity, at least childhood obesity. As obesity occurs in America generally for kids and teenagers, we should try to fix the problem from its origins. In other words, kids should be aware of the quality of fast food and should be offered an alternative daily healthy meal. Various nations have banned fast food advertisement in parks, public schools and kid’s TV channels. They are applying the “zoning” strategy which force kids indirectly to access healthy food. Based on the center of Science and Public Interest,

Obesity is a tragic case that many people face today. Children especially face obesity at a young age due to many cases. Children are more likely face obesity if their parents, for example, eat fast food or processed goods. However, is the school lunch program a huge factor into children’s obesity? Schools can either provide only healthy foods or allow unhealthy options. In some cases, going healthy means they go into debt, or they can choose to allow unhealthy options and generate revenue. Schools lose money daily because it costs more money to prepare meals than the reimbursement they get from the federal government. Children are better off eating what they are surrounded by. If children are surrounded by home made fresh prepared meals, they are more likely to choose healthier options from that day on. To achieve this, many school districts fail and succeed to create a healthier environment for children.

Obesity is defined as a disorder involving excessive body fat that increases the risk of health problems: diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc. Obesity is a nationwide epidemic, especially in today’s younger generation. This is caused by all the processed, fatty, fried junk food that is easily accessible everywhere. For instance, schools are promoting unhealthy eating habits by providing unhealthy lunches and allowing students to buy unhealthy junk food through vending machines and fundraising method. The government must begin financing for healthier food in schools to promote healthier eating habits as well as making unhealthy foods less accessible and healthy foods more accessible.

“Today, more than one-third of people under age 19 are overweight or obese,” (Schools Struggle to Feed Kids Healthy Food). Students are not getting the needed nutrition that their body needs to function. Many of the school food programs across the U.S. serve unhealthy food that is bad for the students eating it.

Public school foods have the most impact on childhood obesity, and the board has decided to set a plan to terminate this issue. Studies show that most teenagers are obese due to an improper balance of calories, and calories being burned. If this issue continues in the life of an adolescent, it can bring a great deal of diseases in the future. If studies have demonstrated anything is that obesity in America is an epidemic that starts at an early age. Consequently, there is a considerable amount of meticulous steps the board will take to achieve success. The health plan will bring tremendous beneficial results to children also society as a whole. Childhood obesity is one of the major health problems in America today, and it is rooted to unhealthy school nutrition.

Brown, Rogan Kersh, David S. Ludwig, Robert C. Post, Rebecca M. Puhl, Marlene B. Schwartz and Walter C. Willett, research on government effort to resolve the issue of obesity has shown “profound effects”. For instance, a nationally representative poll, that has 1,326 United States citizens and residents, were carried out where participants were asked to identify the “high prevalence of obesity” (Bronell. Kersh. Post. Puhl. Schwartz. Willett. 2010). Surprisingly, personal behaviours, such as laziness and gluttony has the least amount of votes in contributing to the increasing rate of obesity over the past decade. Most people agreed that the cause lies with food environment. The presentation of junk food on television are negatively impacting the lives of adults and children alike. Where snack commercials are evidently more appealing and have unclear messages regarding the nutrition factor of their products are being legally presented to the consumers. In regard to the ban of junk food advertising, along with the removal of junk food in schools and replacing them with meals with better standard nutritional values, a correlation between the decline in childhood obesity exposure and the improvement on children’s performance and health is

One of the biggest issues in the US today is childhood obesity. The reason it’s childhood obesity is: Junk Food in school. Junk Food may be delicious, but it has to go. Obesity percentages are rising, costs more for the school, and kids are getting too energized for class.

It is a known fact by many that junk food is leading children in a downward direction from an early age, but solving it is the controversy. Many have different opinions over this topic, some believe that junk food should be banned in schools, while others believe that students should have the freedom to eat whatever they will. Although freedom is important for children, it is also important for children to be guided in the correct direction, in this case, the junk food needs to go. Junk food should be banned in schools because it can cause obesity, it increases chances of being obese as students grow into adults, and it increases risk for future health problems.