Junk Food

Junk Food

Introduction

Food of low nutritional value, such as potato crisps, sugar-coated cereals and the like, or as typically sold by fast food outlets such as McDonald's. According to an article in The Times of 23 October 1999 the following are the 12 most popular junk foods worldwide: meat pie, pizza, chips, popcorn, big mac, doughnut, samosa, kebab, felafel, hot dog, ice cream and kfc. Most Westerners will at some time have consumed one or more of these. Junk food is usually irresistible to children, who are thus the consumers mainly targeted by the manufacturers.

When the school was invented, its primary purpose was to educate youth for their future. It was not mandatory, only the wealthiest families could afford this luxury. Nowadays, it is required by the government to attend school until the age of 18, which means that young people spend most of their time. Should we still allow them to consume unhealthy foods? (Johnson, 2010)

Discussion and Analysis

In my opinion, although the kids love junk food, I believe that the prohibition of the sale thereof would be of their own benefit. Children obesity rate is getting higher than ever and prohibiting the sale of junk food would be a good first step for its decline (Johnson, 2010).

If you think, unhealthy food has no place in a school and the reason for the existence of the school is concerned only with the learning of various materials. First, ban the sale of junk food in schools. This would reduce significantly the rate of obesity among young people because they spend most of their time consuming unhealthy food. If we prohibit the latter, the youth will have no choice but to eat healthier foods and thus reduce their body fat index. Furthermore, the prohibition of junk food in schools would give meaning ...