Healthy Eating Persuasive Speech

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Recommended: Past literature on childhood obesity

Topic: Healthy Eating in Schools

Opening/Attention:
Nearly a quarter of Canadian children are overweight or obese. This is a worldwide issue but for the purpose of this speech I am going to focus on the 3 top countries that effected. Canada, The UK and of course The United States of America. There are many things that play role in why this is happening to the children of these countries but one of the biggest and most pressing issues is that they are not eating healthy. Did you know that if students eat healthy food there is a direct effect to how they do in school?

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Emotion/Story:
I’m now going to show you a photo.*how photos on power point slide* This is an example of what a stander lunch looks like for a child in Spain. Looks yummy right? It’s also an example of a balanced meal. Now, this is a photo of what a stander lunch looks like from the US. The right word that comes to my mind it prosed, …show more content…

b) How much time students spend in school, and how healthy eating can positively affect the way the students learn at school
c) Facts about how the over all health of children today- Between 1978/79 and 2004, the combined frequency of obesity and overweight in children between the ages of 2 to 17 years has increased from 15% to 26 %. These increases more than doubled for this age group, from 14% to 29%.

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“Rebuttal”:
a) It’s too expensive to cook healthy- how much money they spend on health care later down the road
b) It’s more convenient to eat unhealthy- Again talk about the long term effects (lower grades, lower self

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