Vending Machines 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

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.

Some people think that schools should offer only nutritious drinks such as white milk, water, and natural fruit juice and situationally, I agree with this policy. I believe only offering healthy drinks will be a great impact on our schools today. For instance, caffeine drinks can cause children in today's schools to become obese, which will cause children to live an unhealthy lifestyle when they grow older. Caffeine drinks can cause insomnia in children. Insomnia is a sleep disorder, for example, it will not allow children to sleep properly. Caffeine drinks will not give children's bones the nutrition that they need. However, serving nutritious drinks in our school cafeteria can be the solution to all of these brutal conflicts.

I disagree with the policy stating schools should offer only nutritious drinks such as white milk, water, natural fruit juice. I disagree with this policy because some students might be allergic to some of the fruit that is in natural fruit juice. Students might not like white milk, water, and natural fruit juice. Students also need to have the right to choose what they want to drink. I think schools offer more than just nutritious drinks such as white milk, water, and natural fruit juice. I think schools should offer soda, gatorade, powerade, different flavors of milk, and flavored water also. Drinks like gatorade, powerade, and water can help regain energy. When students are allowed to choose their own drinks the school will have to keep

Schools in America should have vending machines. Imagine having no vending machine in the hallway at school. Now imagine having a vending machine in the hall, you would like it wouldn’t you. Most schools do not have vending machines but I feel that we should. Students might get hungry in class, but if the school had a vending machine students would not get as hungry in class. America’s schools should have vending machines.

I also disagree with this plan of action because many teens and kids struggle with weight, and putting soda at easier access is a bad idea. Yes this would raise money for the school, but why soda? Why not water or freshly delivered fruits and veggies? Even packages of dried fruit and nuts would be better than soda. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death, and putting soda at a closer grasp for bored students may make it the first leading cause

Vending machines should be allowed in every school. Most students do not eat school lunch; others cannot leave school campus to go get lunch. And many do not bring lunch from home. Throughout school I am not really hungry, but a snack here and there is good. Not all vending machines have to have unhealthy snacks in them. Another good reason to have vending machines in school is to help school profit. With the money a school makes in a vending machine, they could buy new school supplies. So much money can be made off vending machines. A big issue with having vending machines is that the high calorie snacks cause obesity. That is not true because not all snacks are unhealthy. Having vending machines give students the right to make the decision

To continue on in the article it gives the statement that I found to be true, “The sale of unhealthy high-calorie snacks and drinks in school vending machines undermines these efforts to ensure access to healthy

However, kids have the right to learn to make healthy choices in their life, and by telling them what they can and cannot eat, school boards are making their life decisions for them. Taking away vending machines is telling students that they can't eat junk food. According to psychology, when authority figures tell someone not to do something, their urge to do that thing is much higher if they had just let it go. According to Business Insider, "When someone discourages someone else from doing something, they often feel that their freedom is being threatened, which motivates them to regain choice and control by doing exactly the opposite. Experiments show that children become more interested in a toy after they're put under severe rather than mild pressure not to play with it, and children and adults become more likely to taste fatty foods when labels explicitly warn against them". The fact is, the forbidden fruit always tastes so much sweet. Kids are going to do what they want to matter what, so instead of trying to forbid them from doing or eating something, let them learn to make their own life decisions. As Mark Twain once wrote, “Adam was but human… He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was

I’d love to get a soda at times during school hours but I refuse to buy a diet anything . I am glad all natural sugars are used versus artificial anything. It’s very satisfying to have a ice cold coke after a long day's work or play. I think sodas Like - Mountain Dew, coke, sprite, Big Red, and so forth should be added to the vending machine . I am sure the machines would be used more and the money they already bring in would triple . I think the students should have a voice in what we have in our vending machines. I get it , it’s a luxury not a need ,but how great it is to have something that most of us don’t want /use. besides if you do your research on diet versus coke or diet anything verses not diet you see that they aren't healthier they don’t help you maintain a healthy weight . So there for a sugary taste will make a sweet

have a healthier mindset if they were only given these drinks. The kids could do better in Physical

The first reason that I think that there should be soda machines and vending machines available to student at GMS is because sometimes kids want other things to drink other than having to drink milk and juice and water everyday for lunch and breakfast. Drinking the same thing everyday gets tiring. Some things that we have for lunch in the cafeteria are not good with milk.

I have never been to a public school, but hearing stories from all my friends who come from public schools, a question popped into my head, “Wouldn’t it be nice to have some different rules or regulations in the lunchroom?” One way is to put up vending machines with fruit salads and vegetables with some side dressing. It could save the kids health, and help them think clearer while doing school work.

Giving student access to eat and drink soda in campus will not only hurt the way students need to eat but it will also hurt our environment.Many students love to eat candy and drink soda but if we take action by banning candy and soda the environment would not look messy by the rappers.Take action now because later when students get comfortable with bringing candy and soda, there are going to be students selling the items to other students.Letting the students eat candy and soda is practically saying that the school and administration don’t care about your weight.It's like saying if the government doesn't care about your weight limits.Eating things like that are

Did you know that schools across America are banning sweet treats? Some schools don’t allow their students to bring in sweet treats for their birthday. I agree with the schools that ban them. Sweet treats can cause all types of health problems. The schools that ban these treats want to make their school healthier. Sweet treats would only cause distractions in school. There are many reasons to ban the treats. In my opinion, schools should ban sweet treats because they can cause sickness and it might give students a distracting sugar rush.