The students at Cherokee High School need to use the law of the few and start a lunch room student incentive program to promote healthy diets, and need to apply the Stickiness Factor by giving children freedom of choice in their government mandated physical activity. It is not a hidden fact the abject loathing students feel for their daily gym period. Through a transitive property that abject loathing becomes directed on exercise in general. The gym period has become a prerequisite to promote fitness. But how will it evoke a health epidemic when it creates an aura of anxiety and revulsion? Providing students with alternative choices to physical education will promote an innate want to exercise through the Stickiness Factor. It has been proven seven times over that sedentary people wish to stay as they are. In fact, “Sedentary people [pushed] beyond their intrinsic range when they try to exercise too quickly or intensely, [this makes] them hate the activity and want to stop, says Dr. Ekkekakis.” In an abstract application it is blatant that forcing sedentary people, or the 21% of overweight teens, are then psychologically hardwired to hate any calisthenics. However, “Researchers have found several other psychological …show more content…
But how can such a place be salubrious when the food served is...well, not? The atrocities of the lunch room collations are a prevailing cause in the spike of childhood obesity. In response, the government decided to increase nutritional requirements in the lunchroom, to increase the vegetable and fruit servings to two times what it once was. On average the nation is spending an extra $5.4 million on vegetables and fruits every day, of that $3.8 million is jettisoned into the waste. How can the children be influenced to consume these de rigeur foods in wake of the inimical junk? “Cornell 's David Just and Price, conducted a second study to examine the effect small rewards had on fruits and vegetable consumption in the lunchroom....Fruit and vegetable consumption increased by 80 percent while the amount of total food wasted declined by 33 percent.” Heeding these figures, it is deemed that Cherokee High School needs to implement a student incentive program to promote healthy eating. As an incentive to the students for taking advantage of the healthy foods presented in the cafeteria they will be presented with the opportunity to sit at tables with electronic device chargers. For every three days a student purchases a healthy lunch the students can use the charger for one day, a like to a banking system, the student gains credits for healthy eating and in return can