Should schools ban junk food? - A Pursuasive Essay

By WordlyWriter · Jan 28, 2011 ·
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  1. Should schools ban junk food?

    Obesity in children is an issue throughout North America and the habits that you
    learn when you are young are the ones that you will carry through to adulthood.
    However a 2001 general surgeon report that 14% of the American are obese. Eating lots of
    sugary food makes students less than able to pay attention in class or perform well on
    testings.
    To begin with, school should set a good example of nutritious food for students.
    This would fit well with nutrition curriculum in health classes. Parents should monitor
    their child's diet, but while a students is away from their parents, the school should
    function as a parent and do what is best for the students. And while parents cannot be
    there to watch their student's meal, a school should be responsible of making sure that
    those meal do not include junk food. Sometimes students will be attempted to smuggle
    even if it is banned. Enforcing such ban would force the school to officially check
    student's lunch boxes, lockers, and desks. This will harm students' privacy.
    Schools could offer healthy options for there students in cafeteria meals without
    banning junk food from the schools. The school districts facing smaller budget because of
    state deficits relied on money from the vending machine and soda agreement. And junk
    food is not bad in itself - In moderation junk food could be one of the healthy diet. The
    surgeon recommended that the schools provide a healthier food options and restrict
    acces to junk food in a vending machine.
    I believe that we find it uneasy these days to let someone else to make a rule.
    Parents should teach their student a correct way, and set an example by having a
    nutrition and normal life style. When parents teach there children to their earliest age,
    they will establish those habits naturally. If the parents limit junk food to their students at
    home, this will help the students understand why. Teaching kids how to eat for a long and
    healthy life goes beyong a bandaid approach to junk food bans in school.
    Students can make practice making good choices and parents should guide them
    through example and talking or explaining when they fail to make a good ones. The less
    opportunity they have to do these, the more likely the students will not be able to know
    hoe to make good choices of their own. This is a bigger issue for the health of the
    students.


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