Diet-related diseases are one of the biggest killers in our world, this problem is sweeping the world right now. Schools are funded to deliver, the right means of education. Therefore, education of nutritional food should be a part of our school curriculum. Schools should be encouraged to lead the students into a healthy lifestyle. The new era of instant food has ruined our culture of cooking at homes. The future of obesity will limit the time spent with our loved ones and will lead us to a dark future. Food plays an essential role in our lives, it’s importance should be taken seriously, hence it should be considered as a part of our school curriculum.
Schools are the foundation of dedication to the new generation and the improvement of any
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In the olden day, people used to cook together and invite others occasionally. We should endeavour to bring this tradition back into our societies, and schools should be encouraging it. Furthermore, it also allows us to socialise with each other and assists us in making new friends. Schools should give importance to food after all the purpose of the schools is to provide us with good and trustworthy knowledge. School should educate every child, whether their age or culture, they should promote the act of home cooked food. “My wish is for you to help a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people everywhere to fight obesity” (James Oliver). Food has a huge impact on our societies, it can turn a person’s life around. Jamie Oliver wants to inspire families to cook again, so they can live longer and pass on their knowledge to their future generations. Jamie Oliver wants to make our a world a better place, however it cannot be done by one man, but it is achievable if everyone has the appropriate knowledge. Schools have the power to deliver that kind of knowledge, our lives are completely dependent on the schools. School can be either our saviour or our enemy. Empowering to fight obesity will lead people to happiness, whether it’s within families or societies, it will eventually lead us …show more content…
Furthermore, if one has no knowledge about food, they will encourage others to follow them. However, if the schools start teaching students about food, this problem can be prevented. Once a group of people are educated, they can deliver their knowledge to others and encourage them to cook at home, “If one person teaches three people how to cook something, and they teach three of their mates, that only has to repeat itself 25 times, and that's the whole population of America”(Jamie Oliver). Imagine the minimal effort required to prevent obesity, if the right knowledge is passed on to the school students. Schools should be encouraged to teach students about food as “this problem[obesity] is sweeping the world”(Jamie Oliver). If the students are well taught about food at school, they can live a healthy lifestyle and pass on the same culture to their future generations. Only very minimal efforts are required by the schools to change our future for better. This small practice by the schools can increase the life expectancy of our loved ones, and help us live a healthier
Child obesity became a very serious issue that is taking on the health of the nation 's children. It is everyone responsibility to work on preventing and reducing childhood obesity, from the parents who are suppose to care about their children’s health, to the public health representatives, who should care about a future healthy nation, and everyone in between. Every part of society should create a set of lifestyle changes in order to save our kids from obesity. There are many aspects, which have to be changed or improved, including parent’s nutrition education, children’s physical activity and kid’s nutrition in a school and home, food industry and etc.
Although many of the towns people do not have the knowledge to make healthy meals, Obama’s “Let’s Cook” video series can inform families on how to cook affordable, healthy, fast and easy meals. The video series can only work if the word gets out into the community. Since kids in Manchester are active on the internet, doing something as simple as advertising at the local school or holding a school wide meeting could inform students about Obama’s “Let’s Cook” campaign. Having a mandatory parent meeting could also assist in getting the word out about the campaign. Families like the Robinson could benefit immensely from this campaign. Scott Robinson is a single father rising his two daughters. His daughters know all the fast food restaurants and their menus, giving the impression they eat out quite often. Being a single father, it is hard for Scott to make healthy and nutritious meals on a budget. Promoting the web series, cannot force families to buy healthy
In Tracie McMillan’s article, “Food’s Class Warfare,” she discusses the possible problems and solutions of food equality among the classes. She believes, as does Alice Waters an organic chef, that “good food should be a right and not a privilege” (McMillan 1). “To secure the future of America’s food supply” (2) there are two camps of belief. The first, “just-buy-better-stuff” (2), is a belief that is based on an individual’s choice. Ultimately the choice is ours to make and we must be wise in what we eat. The second, structural challenges, argues that having access to healthy food will be what solves the problem. Although both sides have great points, McMillan believes it will take both working together, to change the way we eat.
In February 2010, a remarkable chef and speaker, Jamie Oliver, presented himself to a TED (Technology, Education, Design) audience as ruthlessly real and charismatic. In his speech, “Teach Every Child about Food” he shares powerful stories of his anti-obesity project and makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jaime Oliver’s speech aims to alter the perspective of Americans and their decisions about food and its effects. Since then, Oliver’s TED talk has been viewed across the nation and brought a reality to the issue with food education. Jamie Oliver successfully utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos to portray his belief that without the use of food education, America and its children will fall under the weight of its own obesity.
From Kindergarten to 12th grade, children spend most of their time at school. School, what we adults think, is supposed to be the teachers of our children while we are at work. They feed them lunch, and possibly breakfast, five days out the week, keep them active, and teach them all about their body and health in health class. But, are they really taking care of them enough? Some schools fail to serve healthy foods, teach health class, or even provide enough time to be physically active. One in three kids are obese, that is reason enough to care about these children’s lives at school. Schools are one of the reasons that the younger generation has a fast growing obese rate.
...). A future research idea piggybacks on this program by encouraging an initiation of state and/or national legislation, specifically for change moving towards healthier school nutrition and additional school nutrition education. This legislation would also mandate increases in the amount of time children are allowed for physical activity in their school day as a lack of physical activity is a huge risk factor for overweight and obesity. Another thought is to designate a school health coordinator who will be responsible for maintaining and continuing the positive work that this study began. Utilizing the success of this program and others like it in this regards will lead to action on all levels of the social ecological framework. Ultimately, a multilevel examination of determinants and interventions needs to be aimed at preventing child overweight and obesity.
The human body requires the intake of food in order to function properly. The foods that we decide to eat has an effect on the ability to use are mind, are strength, and even how prone we are to getting sick or hurt. Eating to much of the wrong foods, with little or no exercise can cause the silent but deadly epidemic of obesity in children and in teens. In the past, obesity was just known as a condition that only affected adults. In this generation the youths are becoming more prone to obesity. In 1995 an average of 18 million children all around the world was categorized as being overweight (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). In a Childhood Obesity Interventions article it says that 17% (12.5 million) of children in the United States is considered to be obese (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). This outrageous number of overweight children in the world is almost tripled in 2010, where 43 million children under 5 are considered to be overweight (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). Another staggering statistic is more than 60% percent of the children that are classified as overweight before they reach puberty, will be overweight as they become adults (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). This leads us to the most stifling fact of there being 2.8 million people in the world that die from being overweight or obese each year (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). These shocking statistics show how dangerous obesity really is, and should urge everyone to fight against this epidemic.
One of the most insidious “diseases” plaguing our nation is poor nutrition. While obesity is an epidemic, we focus too much on heavy people and not enough on all the others around them that are truly malnourished and yet don’t show any “traditional” signs. These other portions of the population shows their irregular nourishment through high rates of chronic illness and even possibly through mental illness. Just because someone is “this”, does not mean they are nutritionally sound. So while in 10 years’ time almost 50% of our population will be obese, a much higher percentage will be malnourished if we keep on this trend. Inevitably malnourished populations will continue to be a public health crisis through the rise in chronic disease and higher medical costs due to the burden these populations put on the healthcare system. This is why we need to focus on reducing food deserts, increase nutritional education at a young age, and create a culture of mindfulness around cooking and eating whole foods.
The nation is suffering from a new epidemic from a program that had good intentions. The obesity rate for children has distantly increased over the past years and is continuing to grow. In the past thirty years, obesity has more than doubled in children and has tripled in young adults. This problem has both immediate and long-term effects in health and well-being in children and adolescents. The ...
According to a 2010 report by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the prevalence of childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past thirty years. As well as having an impact on health, studies have cited a relationship between obesity and poor school performance as well as a child’s readiness for learning and education. This can be correlated with studies finding “obese children have a greater risk of social and psychological problems, such as discrimination and poor self-esteem” (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, para. 2). It has also been documented that obese children miss more days from school than the general student population and “many will lack the energy to sustain the concentration needed to process new information” (Yaussi, 2005, p. 106).
Childhood obesity has recently become a major problem not only in the Unites States, but all around the world. No one knows the real reason as to why childhood obesity has recently become a major epidemic, but it has been found that the environment that the children live in plays a factor in the child’s weight status. Not only that but, some people believe that fast food and their million dollar industries is the reasons why so many children are obese. Whereas others have found that it all relies on their parents, that they, the parents, are the reason why their children are the way they are. Some even say that it’s the school’s fault because they do not teach the children how to live a healthy lifestyle. Whatever it is, it need to be fixed so that we can have a healthier America. At the same time that I believe that the parents play a big role in the weight status of their children, I also believe that schools play a factor in the recent outbreak of childhood obesity.
“Around 70% of obese adults are subsequently afflicted with one health condition such as heart disease, stroke, musculoskeletal diseases, hypertension, type 2 diabetes or impaired social functioning that increases their health care cost by at least 30%. (EDOCONF, 2017) According to the statistics in 2017, diet related diseases in Australia are severely increasing and the most prominent among them is obesity. If schools don’t act upon these statistics, how else will we support the lives of our next generation? How could could any of us assure that our kids will be able to lead in the future if they continually develop several health conditions that brings them down at a young age?
Educational institutions have the potential to, first and foremost, educate and assist the young people of today with making the positive, healthful choices necessary to maintain good health. Over 4,500 students have been followed in recent research studies and these “thousands of sixth graders who participated in a school-based health program were less obese by eighth grade than a group of similar children who did not, according to a new study done for the National Institutes of Health” (Rabin). Schools need to create health programs focused on assisting all children suffering from being overweight or obese. Policies such as fitness programs, nutrition classes, and healthful meals can even impact every student by creating a strong foundation and awareness of the negative, long term effects associated with practicing unhealthy habits. Although the financial expenses would be necessary, the adaption of scho...
When talking about school, we think of children learning different subjects, history, math, science and etc. I think learning about health and healthy life choices is as important as any other subject, and that should not just be restricted to classrooms. Schools have a great opportunity to educate young people about the importance of being healthy. We all know it is no secret that junk food makes you fat, but studies have shown that over the past ten years, obesity has doubled to 8.5 percent among six year olds and trebled to an astonishing 15 percent among 15 year olds. If we do not do anything about it, then this generation of children could be the first to live shorter lives than their parents.
During holidays every year we gather at a relative’s house to enjoy the celebration and to eat food in with each other. In total at least eight families are joined and celebrate each holiday of the year. Food for my family though is complicated everyday. Since there are eight in one house with different opinions the cooked meals are not always appealing to everyone. On a everyday basis my mother cooks homemade meals due to her always being home. While every single member in my family eats three meals or more a day for me two meals is enough because breakfast is unpleasant for some unknown reason. Some food is appears unappealing to many of us. Me and my sister do not enjoy eating meat regularly as opposed to my relatives who eat it daily. I was raised by my mother and her side of the family for three years, and they eat healthy. So instead of enjoying products like meat and other things similar being raised by them made me accustomed to not eating unhealthy products daily. Vegetables and fruit are some of the best foods, while my siblings dislike those things or barely eat some at all. Dinner is where we usually eat together because everyone is home. Meals are always a hassle due to us being a family of eight not all are to have the same opinions. In a way not only does food bring us together, but it also makes us really annoyed with each other because when one does not find the food appealing all they do is complain the whole time until they receive a different meal. Food is one thing that my