Essay on Two Different Perspectives
Imagine yourself in the school lunch line, choosing your daily meal. You reach for the ice cream bars from the fridge, but there are none left. It’s been replaced with yogurt and salads. The chocolate chip rainbow cookies have been replaced with carrot sticks. Worried, you rush to get some chips and a soda from the vending machine. But where the machines once were, are now replaced with an empty, white wall. President Obama has been requesting for middle and high schools to ban candy and soda from school lunches and vending machines. It’s not the government's decision to decide what we eat and where we eat it! Sugary foods and drinks should not be banned from school.
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The removal of vending machines and snacks must stop. Why is there so much talk about banning soda and candy from schools? When our country faces a problem, such as our nation’s childhood obesity epidemic, it’s more easier to simply blame sugary snacks, rather than tackling the roots of the problem. But no kid would eat all that sugary food in just 30 minutes! Obese kids would probably eat sugary and fatty foods, but not on school grounds. Many people who have tried to lose weight by avoiding tempting foods. But many people who try cannot keep their promise. Banning sugary snacks from school is setting yourself up for failure. If you try to ban snacks & sodas from schools, the students will most likely revolt. Trying to remove vending machines containing sugary snacks and sodas is a waste of time. Soda and candy should not be removed from
This doesn’t help kids focus in the classroom for hours after consuming these fatty and sugary foods. The kids will get a sugar high but then crash hours after and won’t be focusing in class but instead, falling asleep during an important lesson. Anita states that, “school cafeterias, of all places, should demonstrate how a healthy, low-fat, well-balanced diet produces healthy, energetic, mentally alert people,” and teaching this at high schools is the best place to change the food because in this generation, kids are becoming overweight and unhealthy because of all the “junk food” they are eating. Teenagers in high school tend to eat more when they are stressed, so if they serve unhealthy foods in the cafeterias then the student will eat the “junk food”, but if the “junk” is switched with fruits, vegetables, and some salads then the students wouldn’t have the sugar high and be focused
...can get. Others may claim students may become hyper after eating too much sugar. This all goes back to parents limiting how much money students can take to school. If needed, teachers can monitor how much sugar a student consumes. Students should know their boundaries. If all issues against school stores can be solved by implementing rules, then it’s not so unhealthy to have a school store or vending machines.
Since nearly the invention of commercially sweetened foods and advertising that celebrates their goodness, sugary foods and drinks have been identified as the cause of several chronic diseases, contributing to poor health. When a person’s diet contains a lot of sugar, especially when it begins early in life, it is likely to cause health problems and possibly death at a young age. For these and many other reasons, it is essential to carry out research in order to establish the extent to which these foods affect people’s health. In gaining more information on this issue, the argument can be made that the government should ban sugary foods and drinks should be sold in elementary and middle schools.
Instead of getting rid of vending machines in schools, they could stock them with healthy options. Adults are in charge of what goes into the machines. Parents are for the most part giving kids the money to buy snacks, so they could have a say in what the kids are buying with that money. There are many foods that could be given instead of chips, and soda. There are many companies, ensuring that their snacks are healthy. Vending machines should not be removed from schools to ensure that kids have access to food at all times during or after
The United States believes soda is crippling children’s health, causing school officials to ban the sale of these sugary drinks from schools. Although soda causes health problems, such as diabetes and obesity, banning soda from schools will not improve children’s overall health. Soda is not the primary culprit of childhood obesity or diabetes; the foods available in schools are equally as detrimental to a child’s health. To see a change in student 's diets, school officials should not only reform soda, but the food as well. Schools should feel compelled to make resources available to educate our kids on clean eating, as proper information would help to improve dietary choices. Even though childhood obesity and other health problems are steadily increasing, soda is not to blame and
Better Vending Machine Choices Should school vending machines ban sugary snacks and drinks and be replaced with healthy food? Vending Machines should have healthier snacks for students and not be filled with junk food, such as chips, sports drinks, and candy. They should be filled with things like nutrition bars, baked chips and trail mix. School is where most children spend the time.
In “Hooked on ‘Caramel-Colored Gold,” Melody Nelson claims “Despite the increased awareness of the benefits of good nutrition, we are a nation hooked on junk food, and many school administrators are taking advantage of the situation ” (par. 3). Nelson propose a ban on vending machines in schools because junk food is unhealthy for children, and they risk future health problems. I agree with Melody Nelson and believe that vending machines should be banned from school campuses, because they sell unhealthy food, they cause more money to schools for hiring extra custodians, and they are affecting children learning abilities.
Vending machines should be permitted in schools because they can be beneficial for. students who desire a light meal throughout the day. Vending machines are low in cost and are efficient. School lunches or lunches outside the school are more expensive than the food that could be provided in a vending machine. Students are not provided with a great amount of income especially if that income is coming from their parents. When students do not have a packed lunch, or not enough money to buy a school lunch, they are led elsewhere. But students could be led to vending machines whose food choices are on their budget. In addition to this, vending machines can have healthier options than a school’s standard lunch.
Throughout the United States, concern of rising health issues is a popular topic. Over a progression of many years, American fast food chains and junk food companies have risen as a common means for food replacing homemade family meals. This quick and easy habit of buying cheaply made and sold foods that lack real nutritional value has been reason for increasing health issues. This habit is seen in children just the same as adults. Children eat the quickest meal with the most sugar and fat (among other unhealthy ingredients). This habit needs to be broken to take better care of the children today. Children are eating snack cakes and other junk foods at school instead of the breakfast/lunch that is offered causing bad habits and a poor diet. The children of America are suffering from the effects of malnutrition and yet, society does not help them to better understand or give higher grade options for them to choose from. Therefore, junk food should not be allowed in schools as it imposes health risks on children, lacks requirements for the nutrition contained in them, and without offering them, children would learn many morals/lessons.
Though J. Justin Wilson argues that by removing unhealthy snacks, “it undermines student’s ability to learn how to make healthy decisions for themselves.”, not all students have been informed about the consequences of consuming junk food and often times need someone to guide them in making the right choice. If schools are promoting unhealthy snacks, students are encouraged to purchase the snack. If healthy snacks replace junk food, students have easier access to healthy food and junk food won’t be an option. When students are hungry, they will be forced to eat healthier because it will be the only option being offered. It is crucial that the government gets involved in this issue and acts now because “80 percent of teenagers who are obese remain obese as
such as chips, deserts, and very high in sugar food should not be served in school
While the snacks available in school vending machines may be rich in flavor, they also are rich in fats and calories. Regulation of competitive foods in schools around the globe continues to be a highly contested debate. With an endless amount of information to consider, solutions to implementing healthier foods in school vending machines and lunch lines vary enormously. Analyzing multiple studies worldwide, discussing the issue from multiple perspectives, and examining the demographics of those impacted by food showcase the importance of nutrition in schools. By providing several studies with different ways to implement healthier foods into schools, one may view the issue with a broader scope.
In the United States, approximately twenty thousand vending machines are in use in schools. It is estimated that more than half of those machines are currently selling snacks and beverages that are overflowing with white refined sugar. White refined sugar is raw sugar that is processed with different acids to give it the white color that sugar is known for. White refined sugar is nearly a drug. It is addictive and in large amounts is awful for the human body. There is variety of health problems that are to be concerned with when people consume vast amounts of sugar. One of the most important health problems in American society is obesity, but even more important is childhood obesity. The number of children obese in the United States has more than tripled in the last 20 years. Children consume up to 4 lbs of sugar a week. This number has more than doubled since the late 1800’s and into the 1900’s when the average person only ate about 5 lbs a year. Part of the reason this number is so high is because the junk food does not stop at home. It continues at school when children buy school lu...
Do you ever walk into the cafeteria and see overweight kids drinking sugary drinks and eating unhealthy food? You may think some kids brought this type of food in from home. Some do, but others get that so called “junk food” from your own school cafeteria. Many people believe this statement and are trying to get schools to remove those types of food from the school. School’s take a major part in child obesity with the food they serve in their cafeterias.
Schools have been debating if vending machines are truly necessary in schools, they can provide many benefits but also be seen in a negative way. The big issue with having vending machines is that the high calorie snacks cause obesity. But, not all snacks are unhealthy. Having vending machines give students the right to make the decision to eat healthy or unhealthy.