Junk Food Should Not Be Banned In Schools

Schools do a “good” job in promoting certain healthy foods in their cafeterias. Yes, students do not enjoy eating them but it is for their good. The fact that schools sell the “baked” chips is a good and a bad idea. It is a good idea because they are healthier than the regular chips sold in grocery stores and smaller than regular sizes. The bad part comes to the fact that they are still being sold and most students prefer to purchase them instead of fruits. In my case, I know I would prefer to eat those chips instead of the fruits. Vending machines are rarely seen in schools but the schools that do have them do not have healthy items inside. Sodas and junk snacks are what are mostly seen in those vending machines along with others. Students

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“Studies have shown school organic gardens,salad bars and healthy lunches improve the health and academic performance of young people.”,stated cummins in his text. Andrew P p. Morris, in his article “ Bad-food taxes will clog our economic arteries beyond repair”, states that “ it is no ones business but yours what you eat.” There might be some truth to this but it is shocking on how many people overeat junk food. When advertisements promote healthy food like vegetables and fruits instead of greasy hamburgers and flimsy fries people want to eat healthy . We have let junk food brainwash youths and even adults into thinking that it's okay to eat outside of their home

It is essential for the government to continue to regulate the food in our school systems. In the article, “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” Michael Moss shows how the food industry is targeting children in school systems. “A potato chip that tastes great and qualifies for the Clinton-A. H. A. alliance for school...We think we have ways to do all of this on a potato chip, and imagine getting that product into schools, where children can have this product and grow up with it and feel good about eating it” (Moss 488-489). This is a prime example of how the food industry is circumventing regulations already in effect. The children of the United States of America are being zeroed in on by companies finding a loophole, instead of protecting the children, by using

Everyone loves sugar filled snacks, especially children. A kid’s day can be made so much better just by handing them their favorite candy bar. This is something students looked forward to during their school day. Sadly, this was made to change. Schools started banning snacks, and drinks based on their unhealthy effect they have on individuals. According to Beverly Ballaro and Ann Griswold in "Junk Food in Schools: An Overview,” this change occurred when Michelle Obama launched her project for healthy eating in 2010. Let’s Move! Was her way to fix child obesity in America. This directed schools to feed children healthier options, and twice as many vegetables or fruit. This was not a necessity for public schools across the United States. Students should not be limited to what they eat in school. As long as they are being fed their basic lunch, it should not be important what they decide to snack on.

When the Obama administration 's Hunger-Free Kids Act was put into motion, children across the nation were in uproar. The act requires school lunches to minimize portion sizes, limit calories, and cut back on protein consumption in general for all students. Most students, including myself argue that the government should not have any say in our diets. The government shouldn 't have control over what we are eating for three very obvious reasons. clearly, the act 's "one size fits all" approach does not apply to every individual student affected. Second, The federal government is being hypocritical with the passing of this act, we can inhale harmful smoke and injest chemicals such as alcohol but we can 't even have a good burger for lunch? Third, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act clearly limits students ' choices and prevents them from making intelligent decisions on their own. Overall, the Hunger-Free Kids Act is not helping children by regulating their diets.

One major question that is asked today is whether or not the eating habits of kids and teens be regulated by the state? This is a big problem today with young ones. No young teenager or child has ever grabbed an apple over a snickers bar for a snack. Although a snickers bar once in a while is not a bad thing, every day consumption of products like this creates a long-term problem. In the article Junk Food Nation: How Parents are Ruining Kids’ Health, there are a couple different standpoints from select individuals on why or how to solve this problem. The main issue is whether or not parents are doing a good enough job teaching their children to make health food choices.

Kids have a right to eat nutritious food that is healthy and fresh. For example, due to the lack of fresh and flavorful food many students choose to buy cheap junk food. The lack of freshness in foods result to kid’s health deteriorating. For instance, twenty-two children became ill Thursday after having lunch at a San Diego elementary school cafeteria, officials confirmed (Garske, Powell). Now, what is this? Kids getting sick from school food? We can’t have kids’ health being endangered just because schools can’t afford fresh food. The school is who takes care of kids and they are

Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the United States, nearly twenty percent of children between the ages of 6 and 11 are clinically obese; however the government has no place trying to control this. (CDC, 2008) The current administration over steps its authority moving beyond the control of federally funded school lunches and into oversight of privately owned vending machines in public schools. Major corporations are being bullied into censoring their advertisement exposure to younger children so that the government won’t impose their own regulations. It is a parent’s responsibility and right to educate their children and control what they eat. The Federal government should not try to control what children eat by imposing regulations

With not having a lunch that is appetizing to the student, they should be able to have a lunch break were they can go off campus and get lunch. This would be food that students would love to eat it; it would also give them their freedom of deciding where they would like to go (Booker, 2). Having all this stress is a student, of what to get complete and what to do the next day, can often times result in having to eat a poorly made lunch.

Americans today eat junk food constantly, knowing it diminishes their health. The American standard diet consists of unhealthy factors that lead to diabetes, heart attacks, and high cholesterol. School lunches consist of those diseases. Schools should mandate control and enforce regulations that would reduce the wide availability of unhealthy foods and processed snacks. Furthermore, junk foods should be taxed on a national scale and promote natural ingredients. Too many of our schools offer little or almost no

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) to establish nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools. This will offer healthier snacks to children, while limiting junk food intake. Due to Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move" initiative, the USDA recently outlawed junk food in public schools in the United States, along with the starting healthy lunches to decrease obesity in the United States. However, the banning of junk foods in schools is likely to be ineffective for three main reasons: there are other options, psychology states human beings do what they know they shouldn't, and teaching kids is the job of the parents.

You may be familiar with recent regulation, which was initiated for the 2014-15 school year, where the United States Department of Agriculture enforced regulatory guidelines on food items sold in schools across the nation. Although there was previously a nutritional requirement for food in school, as Marion Nestle, a Professor of Nutrition at New York University, points out in her very influential article of the time, “this requirement [did] not apply to foods sold outside of school cafeterias in snack bars, school stores, or vending machines" (Nestle 308). Many proponents of the recent regulation are astonished that such regulation was not in place from the beginning. Unfortunately, this action was influenced by an ever-rising concern for the obesity rate in the US population, and not a desire to proactively encourage a healthy lifestyle.

"Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it" (Josh Billings, 1865). A healthy lifestyle is dependent on the choices of an individual 's diet. Junk food will fulfill the desire of one for a short period of time. However, a healthy and maintained body will fulfill the need throughout one 's entire life. Therefore, is maintaining an unhealthy diet full of sugar and life-threatening junk the perceptive decision? As perceived, healthy food habits are not something that should be averted, thinking it is petty. In fact, it is a serious matter that destroys many lives and thoughtful actions must be conveyed immediately. Hence, it must be mandatory for YRDSB schools to ban junk food as it will reduce the high chances of obesity, cause students to stay concentrated during class and require students to stay active.

Restrictions should be made against junk food in school to prevent children’s emotions and accomplishment correlated with food.“Using food as a reward or a treat, could be unintentionally teaching their children to rely on food to deal with their emotions”(rewarding kids). Children are being taught to rely on food for a confort and a emotional cope mecanism.“After a hard day of work, many adults run to food to deal with stress, reliving their childhood experience with food and comfort. The more parents use food as a reward for their children, the more likely the child will grow into an adult who eats for comfort”(rewarding kids). Kids being emotionaly attached to food may affect them when they get older and eventually into thier adult life.“The child learns to comfort themselves with that food. This leads to an unhealthy emotional connection between eating certain foods and feeling good “(rewarding kids). Children eating thier favorite foods make them feel happy so when they are upset they