Should Junk Food Be Banned From Schools?
70% of our society are addicted to Junk foods but do they know the dark side of these meals. Junk foods can causes to us heart diseases and rarely cancer. Nowadays these junk food had appeared in schools and kindergartens but are students allowed to eat these kinds of unhealthy food in schools?
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The fundamental flaw is "junk food" means completely different things to different people: Chips by themselves may be junk but paired with a cheeseburger they're just a side dish. Some would label the cheeseburger itself as junk, but it's protein, dairy, and grains. Salads often get a free pass but half the dressings usually offered to go with them are killer packed with fat and salt and turn it into junk. Whole fruit might not be junk, but if it's bought in bulk and happens to have pesticide and herbicide and fungicide on its skin then it may be less healthy than a candy bar. Multigrain bread may not be junk, but to people who believe in low or carb free diets it may literally be considered poison. Bacon may be the worst or the best thing you can eat depending again on your diet plan. Candy bars may be junk, but energy bars may have far more calories and yet may be considered fine. Soda may be junk, but actual fruit juice may have far more sugar and calories in it. It's just not as simple as ban the junk. There is tremendous disagreement over what junk is. My employer has tried to put healthier stuff in the vending machines, and that's fine, but on balance they sell less, people find other ways to work the junk in anyway, and the stuff they do stock would be considered far worse by people sticking to low carb diets. Plus you don't know what else the person has or has not eaten to counterbalance. If a kid in school had brussel sprouts for breakfast and broccoli for lunch then I don't really care if they want to follow it up with a Snickers. Meanwhile the kid who eats three small meals of salad a day may literally have an eating disorder and be unhealthily too skinny. It varies from kid to kid, meal to meal. Side: Disagree
The fundamental flaw is "junk food" means completely different things to different people: Chips by themselves may be junk but paired with a cheeseburger they're just a side dish. Some would label the cheeseburger itself as junk, but it's protein, dairy, and grains. Salads often get a free pass but half the dressings usually offered to go with them are killer packed with fat and salt and turn it into junk. Whole fruit might not be junk, but if it's bought in bulk and happens to have pesticide and herbicide and fungicide on its skin then it may be less healthy than a candy bar. Multigrain bread may not be junk, but to people who believe in low or carb free diets it may literally be considered poison. Bacon may be the worst or the best thing you can eat depending again on your diet plan. Candy bars may be junk, but energy bars may have far more calories and yet may be considered fine. Soda may be junk, but actual fruit juice may have far more sugar and calories in it. It's just not as simple as ban the junk. There is tremendous disagreement over what junk is. My employer has tried to put healthier stuff in the vending machines, and that's fine, but on balance they sell less, people find other ways to work the junk in anyway, and the stuff they do stock would be considered far worse by people sticking to low carb diets. Plus you don't know what else the person has or has not eaten to counterbalance. If a kid in school had brussel sprouts for breakfast and broccoli for lunch then I don't really care if they want to follow it up with a Snickers. Meanwhile the kid who eats three small meals of salad a day may literally have an eating disorder and be unhealthily too skinny. It varies from kid to kid, meal to meal. Side: Disagree
No,schools should not ban junk food! I say no because think about the kids who love junk food. They would hate that and be sad and you would not want that would you? Also, junk food has sugar in it and without sugar they will be zombies every single day. So no! Side: Disagree
90% of our society disagree allowing Junk foods to schools because of its bad effects on the health of students. Junk food will always be unhealthy no matter how much you reduce the harmful ingredients. Most junk food that are done in a bit of minutes are mostly fried in oil or tossed and mixed with some harmful ingredients like sodium, salt and sugar. These ingredients is formed to keep junk food a long shelf life. Junk food pushes the person to reduce physical activity in the day and age and it leads to one of the main effects of fast food which is obesity. Schools are doing their best to ban these foods for the health and safety of our children. Students spend most of their times in schools so if we prevent them from eating junk food they will turn away and think well for their better life and future. The minute he or she has a snack of junk food, the person gets a spike of energy making him overactive and hyper. Could we force students to eat junk food? It will distract their focusing in school and will leads them to addict junk food and prefer it more than homemade food. Side: Agree
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I honestly have a rather neutral opinion on the subject. but you said a few things that I felt were incorrect and needed brought to light Article below indicates that the sugar rush is a myth. "http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/ "Sodium, salt and sugar" Sodium is put into the body as a salt (NaCl). and those two ingredients are in almost all food. their presence in high quantities qualifies them as junk food, but food containing those products are not inherently junk food. I make this distinction because sugar has become a filler in almost all available food items. with the awareness of sugar as a filler in most non "junk food" "homemade food" would not fix the problem you also contradict yourself, "Junk food pushes the person to reduce physical activity in the day and age" yet citing the sugar rush fallacy. I don't think a person can be hyper AND sedentary. unless you force them to sit still (Which schools do for the most part) Side: Disagree
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The fundamental flaw is "junk food" means completely different things to different people: Chips by themselves may be junk but paired with a cheeseburger they're just a side dish. Some would label the cheeseburger itself as junk, but it's protein, dairy, and grains. Salads often get a free pass but half the dressings usually offered to go with them are killer packed with fat and salt and turn it into junk. Whole fruit might not be junk, but if it's bought in bulk and happens to have pesticide and herbicide and fungicide on its skin then it may be less healthy than a candy bar. Multigrain bread may not be junk, but to people who believe in low or carb free diets it may literally be considered poison. Bacon may be the worst or the best thing you can eat depending again on your diet plan. Candy bars may be junk, but energy bars may have far more calories and yet may be considered fine. Soda may be junk, but actual fruit juice may have far more sugar and calories in it. It's just not as simple as ban the junk. There is tremendous disagreement over what junk is. My employer has tried to put healthier stuff in the vending machines, and that's fine, but on balance they sell less, people find other ways to work the junk in anyway, and the stuff they do stock would be considered far worse by people sticking to low carb diets. Plus you don't know what else the person has or has not eaten to counterbalance. If a kid in school had brussel sprouts for breakfast and broccoli for lunch then I don't really care if they want to follow it up with a Snickers. Meanwhile the kid who eats three small meals of salad a day may literally have an eating disorder and be unhealthily too skinny. It varies from kid to kid, meal to meal. Side: Disagree
No,schools should not ban junk food! I say no because think about the kids who love junk food. They would hate that and be sad and you would not want that would you? Also, junk food has sugar in it and without sugar they will be zombies every single day. So no! Side: Disagree
I agree with you .. junk food are sold by cheap prices and everyone has his freedom to have them or not, But did read my debate question well? I'm discussing about should junk food be sold to students that didn't reach the age of 18 yet in schools, I'm not talking generally.They are still not adults and irresponsible of their eating ,doing etc. so parents should decide if they should have them in schools. Side: Agree
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