No More Candy!
Imagine you are walking through the cafe line at Annville Middle School, and all you see is donuts upon donuts, lined with cookies and soda. All you have on your mind is sampling all of these tasty treats. Then, imagine yourself twenty years later, only one hundred pounds heavier. It was a bad idea to eat all of that candy. Candy is certainly unhealthy! Schools are making a horrible choice in selling unhealthy snacks. Candy shouldn’t be sold in schools, because cookies, sodas, donuts, and any other unhealthy treats are bad for your health. They could cause harm to you in later life. Sure, students like donuts, but does it really help them? According to the World Health Organization, the amount of obesity in the modern world is …show more content…
It causes childhood obesity because the more candy you eat, the harder it is to stop eating. My question to schools is, why help kids get unhealthy when you can give them healthy foods? Too many kids nowadays have too much candy at one time. Sure, one piece of candy here and there is okay, but having three king-size snicker bars at the school lunchtime is just too much. If we stop selling candy from schools, the child obesity rate will go down. The current rate is 340 million kids, ages 5-19, are obese in today’s world.(“Obesity and …show more content…
Furthermore, by not selling candy at schools, schools are eliminating the number one source of candy, which helps the parents by allowing them the knowledge that they don’t need to worry about what their kids eat at school. If the kids bring candy from home, parents can regulate the amount of candy they bring. Kids may take more candy to school, but at least they can’t overeat at school. Imagine a parent, searching a son or daughter’s backpack. Parents should know what their kids are taking to school, right? Then parents won’t need to worry about their kids having a large amount of candy at school, where they can’t regulate
Imagine you are walking through the cafe line at Annville Middle School, and all you see is donuts upon donuts, lined with cookies and soda. All you have on your mind is sampling all of these tasty treats. Then, imagine yourself twenty years later, only one hundred pounds heavier. It was a bad idea to eat all of that candy. Candy is certainly unhealthy! Schools are making a horrible choice in selling unhealthy snacks. Candy shouldn’t be sold in schools, because cookies, sodas, donuts, and any other unhealthy treats are bad for your health. They could cause harm to you in later life. Sure, students like donuts, but does it really help them? According to the World Health Organization, the amount of obesity in the modern world is …show more content…
It causes childhood obesity because the more candy you eat, the harder it is to stop eating. My question to schools is, why help kids get unhealthy when you can give them healthy foods? Too many kids nowadays have too much candy at one time. Sure, one piece of candy here and there is okay, but having three king-size snicker bars at the school lunchtime is just too much. If we stop selling candy from schools, the child obesity rate will go down. The current rate is 340 million kids, ages 5-19, are obese in today’s world.(“Obesity and …show more content…
Furthermore, by not selling candy at schools, schools are eliminating the number one source of candy, which helps the parents by allowing them the knowledge that they don’t need to worry about what their kids eat at school. If the kids bring candy from home, parents can regulate the amount of candy they bring. Kids may take more candy to school, but at least they can’t overeat at school. Imagine a parent, searching a son or daughter’s backpack. Parents should know what their kids are taking to school, right? Then parents won’t need to worry about their kids having a large amount of candy at school, where they can’t regulate