Junk Food Should Be Allowed In Schools Essay

In discussions of schools should ban junk food and soft drinks, one controversial issue has been why schools should tell us on what to eat. My own view is in the middle of banning junk food and soft drinks. There is really good reason why or why not school should ban junk food and soft drinks. There are many reasons schools should ban junk food. One of the main reasons is, it’s not very healthy eating junk food every day. I believe many people would ban junk food and not soft drinks from school. I believe the same thing on banning junk food and not soft drinks from school. I know soft drinks isn’t healthy, but there are non-caffeine ones.

In my health class the teacher showed the class a movie, it was called Supersize Me. In the movie some guy decided to eat Mc Donald's for a whole month. People were wondering how the outcome will be on eating fast food for a month. They wanted us to know it’s not healthy for us to eat fast food

all the time. People shouldn't eat fast food more than twice a month that’s what I think. If people decide to eat out all the time it will cause many dangerous health problems. They will for sure be overweight. That will cause many horrible things for their health. It will get you very lazy and just want to lay all day. People should really think twice about eating fast food. It’s fine to eat it once in a while not all the time. People that don’t think they are going to get sick by eating fast food all the time are wrong. This is similar to students eating junk food at school every day of the week.
In this world, it all resolves with fast food places. Healey agrees when he writes, “We are eating nearly 25% more food, but have not really changed our activity levels” (p.44) In other words, Healey believes we are eating more but not doing any exercise activity. At least everyone has eaten it once in their lifetime. Everyone decides to get fast food because its good food and you’ll get it fast. When people are lazy making food at their house they just think it’s better to go out and eat. Those people should stop being lazy and make food at the house. Also, the parents or the person who is in charge make children eat healthy snacks. Some people don’t think about what they are eating. Now imagine schools giving out junk food every day of the week.
Schools should really take control of the food they are giving out for lunches. Dufault and Parsons state, “From the beginning, the superintendent and food service leaders planned the facility to ensure that balanced diets with quickly prepared, but healthy, foods are offered to students to help them establish an overall balanced lifestyle. The design effected a complete transformation of Hopkins School's food-service program, incorporating nutritional values into school curriculum and reaching out to local organic farmers and other purveyors of healthy foods, additionally exposing students to real-world experiences about the business world” (1). In other words, Dufualt and Parsons believe making this big change is going to better the students’ health issues. I believe they made a great decision on serving healthy food. By this decision the school made to serve healthy food will make a big difference of the students’ health.
The students are still choosing junk food even if they know it’s not a healthy thing to eat.

If only the students knew what was really in the meat. Schlosser himself writes, “To make matters worse, the animals used to make about one-quarter of the nation’s ground beef – worn-out dairy cattle – are the animals mostly likely to be diseased and riddled with antibiotic residues” (204). Schlosser’s point is the meat from the fast food places are unhealthy and can lead to serious health issues. I’ve always believed that the meat was well taken care of for us to eat, but I was wrong. I know many people don’t know what is in the meat. Many people assume the meat that is not good is thrown in the trash, which they should know that they are wrong. The people processing the meat or buying it don’t care if the meat is bad; all they care is for having it, selling it, and giving it to people to eat it. The people processing the meat and the people buying it should really care if the meat is good or not. These bad meats are leading to school

lunches.
Everyone has their opinion in which schools should ban junk food. I believe they should ban junk food from school. With all the information I’ve found and researched made me strongly agreeing to banning junk food. Schools should take a further look on junk food and what can cause from eating junk food. School should consider on having healthy food for lunch. Which can decrease obesity and health problems. Many people assume that they won’t be the unlucky one and get the bad meat. They think by eating junk food every day of the week won’t lead them from obesity or health problems. By making the right decision, in choosing something healthy other than junk food, can cause them to have a healthier life.
People I’ve question on if they should ban junk food. They all believe it’s the people’s choice on what to eat. That schools shouldn’t make the students choice on what the students should eat. It’s the student’s decision if they want to eat junk food or not. I disagree with what these people say that schools shouldn’t choose what students should eat. I think if school changess their menu into healthy food, students would have no other choice than to eat healthy food. It’s the schools move to take the chance on making that big change in order to make the students life better. People don’t see the outcome of this problem. These people should really have an open mind on banning junk food from schools. They should know it will make many peoples life’s way much healthier.
Another little problem we have in school is the soft drinks. Some people do believe soft drinks should be ban from schools. There are many of soft drink to choose from. Kregiel states, “Apart from drinking water, the most popular types of soft drinks are as follows: (i) ready-to-drink essence-flavored beverages; (ii) ready-to-drink beverages containing fruits or fruit juice; (iii) beverages ready-to-drink after dilution [1] (Table1)” (1). Kregiel’s point is that there are many of soft drinks people can choose from. So, people believe soft drinks should be ban from school. I disagree that soft drinks should be ban from schools. Gross agrees when she writes, “A 20 ounce bottle of Coca Cola has roughly the same calorie count as a McDonald's hamburger, but Kelly Brownell, a psychology, epidemiology and public health professor at Yale University, said it is easier to over-drink than over-eat” (1). In making this comments, Gross urges us to know it isn’t as bad to drink more than to over eat junk food.
There are people that rather have a soft drink other than a water to drink. Sanjay states, “There have been few empirical studies of the role of soft drinks on the epidemiology of obesity and diabetes in low- and middle-income countries” (2071). Sanjay’s point is that people that been drinking soft drinks are leading into obesity and diabetes.