SHOULD REFINED WHITE SUGAR AND HIGH FRUCTOSE SUGAR PRODUCTS BE REMOVED FORM SCHOOL VENDING AND FOOD SERVICE PROGRAMS?

There is a dramatic increase in the number of children who are being affected by diabetes and obesity in America. Sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks should be taken out of the vending machines in schools and replaced with healthier choices to help stop this trend. Some may argue that taking out the options it is taking away a student’s right to choose what they will and will not eat. However, by taking out the sugary drinks healthy habits are encouraged, future diseases are avoided, and a healthier generation is brought up.

One in five children in America are obese. How is this possible? In Stephanie Soechtig’s documentary, “Fed Up” (2014), she brings awareness to a few of the causes of obesity and elaborates on the lack of effort people are putting in to end it. Food manufacturing corporations care only about strategic plans to put money in their pocket, not to help make America healthy. Obesity can be traced back to one main cause; sugar. The three things have been addressed through personal stories and physicians that support and increase sugar addictions of adolescents is the amount of added sugar in processed foods, junk food advertisements, and the lack of regulations relating to sugar. Sugar addiction is a real problem and is scientifically proven to be as addicting as cocaine.

Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. (“Data & Statistics.” Childhood Obesity in America, childhoodobesityinusa.weebly.com/data--statistics.html). The reasons why the numbers are increasing are because children are eating more empty calories than ever before. Instead of healthy fruits, veggies and nutritious snacks and lunches, parents are packing and serving processed snacks that contains high fructose corn syrup. If this problem is not solved, one third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some time in their lives. (National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/learn-facts/epidemic-childhood-obesity). Childhood obesity should be prevented because it is a risk to kids' health, low self-esteem, and they can be bullied because of it.

Many schools nowadays turn off their vending machines during the school day to prevent students from eating fattening foods. In California and Hawaii, state legislators are very close to passing a law that would ban any drinks excluding milk, water or juice from being sold in elementary schools, and reduce the hours older students can use the vending machines. Michelle Obama and the Obama Administration have asked Congress to improve children's nutrition by getting rid of school vending machines that provide students with sugary snacks and drinks. The problem with this is school’s are making an extravagant amount of money off feeding their students with artificial flavoring and

With the incidence of childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease continuing to climb, it is understandable that concerned individuals searching for effective methods of reversing this trend would target school lunches. Children consume up to half of their daily calories during school, but the government has not yet placed any limitations on the sugar content of their meals. When viewed generally, the implementation of restrictions on the amount of sugar in school meals appears to be the universal solution to combatting childhood health problems, but in practice it cannot be feasibly implemented in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. Although sugar is a major factor contributing to the declining health of the adolescent

Sugar is not the horrifying monster that everyone thinks will hurt you. Sugar isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is, it's actually good for you in different ways. It helps you focus, sugar is not addictive, and it doesn't cause serious diseases.

Is it true that sugar causes or contributes to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? This is an important question that many parents, teachers and researchers are trying to answer. Sugar has long been suspected to be a cause behind ADHD symptoms. But research has yet to validate the connection. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the idea that refined sugar causes ADHD or makes symptoms worse is accepted, but more research disproves this theory than supports it. The Journal of Physiology is one of the first to discuss the negative consequence of a diet on learning and cognition (Agrawal & Gomez-Pinilla, 2012). The authors investigated the metabolic outcomes of a high glucose diet in combination with a

In class I watched the movie Fed Up. After watching the movie I learned that when you eat sugar it takes the body longer to break , leading to it being stored as fat. According to the movie,studies have shown that sugar can lead to obesity and other health problems. The movie also showed that sugar is more addictive than cocaine, It showed an experiment on mice. The mice who had more sugar wanted more and more and more.

By metabolizing at a slow rate, sugar damages many of the body’s functions. Many children in America have been considered severely overweight or obese. This was not always the case, before the introduction to sugar the number of children with diabetes was very limited. The disease originated as being diagnosed at an older age. Now diabetes is a rapidly growing epidemic seen in all age groups. The consumption of sugar has also been linked to many other diseases. George Campbell, South African diabetes specialists, suggested “half of the sugar sold in America would be enough to spark epidemics” (“Sweet little lies”,

* Sugar can increase total cholesterol. * Sugar can contribute to weight gain and obesity. * High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. * Sugar can contribute to diabetes. * Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis. * Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity. * Sugar leads to decreased glucose tolerance. * Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease. * Sugar can increase systolic blood pressure. * Sugar causes food allergies. * Sugar can cause free radical formation in the bloodstream. * Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy. * Sugar can contribute to eczema in children. * Sugar can overstress the pancreas, causing damage. * Sugar can cause atherosclerosis. * Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries. * Sugar can cause liver cells to divide, increasing the size of the liver. * Sugar can increase the amount of fat in the liver. * Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney. * Sugar can cause depression. * Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention. * Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance. * Sugar can cause hypertension. * Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines. * Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha and theta brain waves, which can alter the mind's ability to think clearly. * Sugar can increase blood platelet adhesiveness which increases risk of blood clots and strokes. * Sugar

To begin, eating sugar-filled foods can cause severe health problems. Students can become overweight or even obese from eating these foods. An author from KidsHealth.org explained, “Overweight and Obese kids are also at risk for bone and joint problems, shortness of breath that makes exercise worse, and restless sleep or breathing problems at night. They also have a tendency to mature earlier.” This means that children

Sugar does effect your health more than you think. “Sugar can travel up and into your brain and can make you not think straight.” (Zielke,2007) So if you eat a lot of sugar before a big test in school you will not do as well since your brain isn't thinking right. Sugar can also effect your weight too. “When your body does not eat all of the sugar that you take in it transfers that extra sugar into body fat.” (Nadeau,2001) So before you want to go onto a diet, you might want to come up with a chart that tells you how much sugar is in the popular items that you eat.

In my opinion, sweet treats should be banned from schools because they can develop diabetes. In my opinion, sweet treats should be banned from schools because they can cause kids to lose focus. Imagine your kids getting better grades because they have healthy lunches allowing them to focus. Healthy foods make you focus better because the sugar enters your bloodstream slower. Over two million people lost limbs to diabetes(amputee.org). People lose limbs to diabetes because diabetes leads to nerve damage, which makes blood flow stop running through that limb. What if your kid got into Harvard because they could pay attention in class because they ate healthy

Sugary drinks have been a daily routine in many people’s lives. Beverages such as soft drinks, fruit-flavored drinks, and coffee have been convenient in a person’s day. The argument for banning sugary drinks in schools is absurd because it is obviously unfair for students to not able to access these drinks.

The first side of this controversial issue is that the unhealthy fast food and drinks should be banned from the schools. A new paper article reads “a recent study in the American journal of clinical nutrition found that sodas, sports drinks, energy drinks, fruit drinks and other sugary drinks accounted for nearly half of added sugars in U.S. diets.” (2014, Lazarus) This really sets in stone how detrimental these drinks are to student’s health and wellbeing. Sugar truly has awful effects on the human body, not only does it cause “obesity but also type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, hypertension and other costly ailments.” (2014, Lazarus)