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When you aren’t teaching awareness and instead telling students no, they really are not thinking for themselves. This is a very liberal way of going about things. Putting restrictions on things doesn’t bring awareness, it makes people think about how to beat the system, that’s just human nature. If schools thoroughly talked to their students about the health risks with certain foods, I believe there would be a better outcome. Doing this would definitely teach awareness and responsibility among the students.
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But does he honestly believe regulating what students can eat for seven hours of the day will solve the obesity epidemic? Students will still bring as much fattening food to school as they wish. Also, after school the children will have full access to whatever they please. Limiting students on what they can and cannot eat at school is not the problem solver in the obesity epidemic. The only real way to solve this epidemic is to show the real dangers of GMOs, preservatives, artificial flavoring, etc on the human body. The schools that do sell sugary snacks and drinks aren’t willing to reduce their hours or cut out these foods. They make too much revenue to shut vending machines down. As this profit does go towards the school, it’s free money to them and the students are their customers. It’s said that 80% on public schools nowadays have contracts with Coke or Pepsi. It’s very disgusting to think that schools know what these drinks and snacks are doing to their students, but they’re are naive to the fact considering they’re getting paid
But does he honestly believe regulating what students can eat for seven hours of the day will solve the obesity epidemic? Students will still bring as much fattening food to school as they wish. Also, after school the children will have full access to whatever they please. Limiting students on what they can and cannot eat at school is not the problem solver in the obesity epidemic. The only real way to solve this epidemic is to show the real dangers of GMOs, preservatives, artificial flavoring, etc on the human body. The schools that do sell sugary snacks and drinks aren’t willing to reduce their hours or cut out these foods. They make too much revenue to shut vending machines down. As this profit does go towards the school, it’s free money to them and the students are their customers. It’s said that 80% on public schools nowadays have contracts with Coke or Pepsi. It’s very disgusting to think that schools know what these drinks and snacks are doing to their students, but they’re are naive to the fact considering they’re getting paid