Banning_Junk_Food_In_Schools

Banning Junk Food In Schools Our Children’s Health is Too High of a Price to Pay We’ve all heard the saying, “You are what you eat!” How healthy you eat does in fact, play a role in determining how healthy you are going to be. Sadly, many people ignore this fact, and they start ignoring it at a very young age. Newest statistics on child obesity, given by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state that “teenagers today are almost three times as likely to be overweight as they were 20 years ago”(Winter par.4 ). As much as it is important to practice healthy eating at home, the school, where the students usually spend breakfast and lunch at, plays a vital role in the health of our children. Schools should not permit the sale of junk food on their campuses. This is the first step at turning around the problem with childhood obesity. The school is a place that teaches values and practices that students take into their lives outside of school as well, and practicing good food habits will lead to more healthy bodies. Besides the reading, writing, and arithmetic, schools are a major influence in a child’s life; the friends they choose, students, schools, school, food, should, lunch, vending, junk, healthy, milk, machines, health, government, eat, companies, way, programs, program, people, pay, over, offered, need, foods, eating, choose, child, breakfast, years, very, values, treat, towards, start, soda, role