The House and Senate lawmakers introduced a bill to reduce junk food in schools by requiring that any food and drinks sold on campuses, including in vending machines, meet the same federal nutritional standards as food served in the cafeteria. In response to the growing obesity epidemic among children, the bill also requires the Agricultural Department to rewrite the nutritutional guildlines so that schools would limit the amount of sugar, fat, sodium, and portion sizes. Statistics show that 99% of high schools, 98% of middle schools, and83% of elementary have vending machines and school stores that sell mostly unhealthy snacks and drinks. The bill has bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate.
Addressing the growing epidemic problem in the United States would benefit many unhealthy Americans. By limiting the unhealthy snacks and drinks that schools offer to students would increase the children's chances of achieving healthy stability. Support from both the House and the Senate is a good sign that the bill should become a law.
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This law directly effects us as students still attending school. I don't understand why people cannot watch their health so that they don't become obese. Food is good, but feeling fat is awful. I understand for those that have a some physical problem with their bodies that retains the fat in their bodies, but I'm sure not everyone is like that. Because of people's lack of self-discipline, this has become a national problem.
although Americans, themselves, have taken the initiative of self-discipline to control obesity, it is merely a tensile fabric of effectiveness; thus, the Federal government needs to take a stance to regulate commercial food production, restaurant consumption, and food consumption at schools more strictly and effectively by limiting the production of unhealthy processed food, restricting extremely high calories in restaurants, and limiting the use of sodium and fat in order to lessen the chance of deaths for America.
I agree. Ever since our school banned sodas, I haven't been drinking much of it lately, except when I buy a meal at Hi-Life or some other fast food place; but really, I think it has helped me to become a healtier person. Thus, I feel that with this bill, students will avoid unhealthy food at school. However the problem is that cafeteria food is not the most pleasant food to eat. Some students would rather starve or eat chips for lunch. Schools need to upgrade their lunch menus with something tasty and healthy at the same time.
I think that reducing junk food really doesn't play a big part in the whole obesity epidemic. There are plenty of people that eat junk food that don't become obese because of working out such as myself for example. I think that this cut in junk food is unnecessary as long as people take care of their bodies and if they don't then that's their fault. Although it isn't a big deal if junk food is taken out of schools I just feel that it is not needed, and if President Bush feels it is then he needs to come up with a better reason then blaming all obesity on junk food because it is a mixture of unhealthy eating and unhealthy living (aka not working out) not just bad eating.
I think they shouldn't ban junkfood. If they ban it from school, kids will just go somewhere else to get it. I know since the lunch food became "healther" i ate less of school food and more outside of school, which i dont think is healthier for me anyways.
I don't believe that it is the job of the school to encourage good nutrition. If any ban should be made, it should be made on the ingredients going into the food itself or on what the nation is serving, not the schools. To solve obesity, one should look at the nation overall, not just the youth. Also, parents should be the ones enforcing healthier diets and exercise since they have immediate power ower this. Personally, if I wanted to get junkfood, a ban wouldn't prevent me from doing so.
I agree with most of you. I think it is the parents job to control what their kids eat. If your fat thats your problem, the rest of us should not have to suffer. if i want to be unheathy and eat candy it should be my choce, not the school's. I like candy, and want to eat it when I want!!!!
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