Junk Food

            Not only is junk food bad for you, but it is also gets in the way with school.  After a lunch full of sugar, and fat, kids in class, crash on their sugar high, making them unfocused and drowsy.  Kids have gotten lazier lately, so they can’t burn off the fat they eat every day.  U.S. students who attended daily P.E. classes in High school have dropped from 42% in 1991 to 28% in 2003.  When people become fat, they sometimes feel left out, depressed, or shame.  They might even become anorexic and/or bulimic.  This can lead to bad grades, bad social lives, or even worse issues.  Everyone will lead to a better life and education if junk food is banned in schools.

Believe it or not, junk food is also bad financially.  Kids buy it because it is inexpensive, tasty, and easy to get to.  12 billion dollars a year is spent supplying youth in the U.S.!  While big food suppliers like Pepsi© are getting a fortune, you are just wasting your money on this junk.  “Junk food should not even be called ‘food’.  It should be called what is actually is: a highly efficient system for fats, sugars, and other bad things.” Take action now to save our nations money and our young citizens’ bodies.

Some people say that banning junk food won’t help or that it’s wrong.  “The answer to everything is not just to ban it.  How can kids learn to limit themselves is they never are given a choice.”  Right now it is the only solution.  Most kids don’t have self control.  They will just binge out on junk food when they have the chance.  We should ban it now and save the trouble and money.  Other people say that banning it will make them want it more and that at home they will binge out on it.  “Kids shouldn’t be forced to eat something they don’t want!”  That is another thing people say when it comes to banning junk food.  Since a lot of kids aren’t responsible to make the better choice, they shouldn’t have a choice to make.  Banning junk food is the right way to go!

Junk food, or rather what it is: Toxic junk that wastes your money and hurts your body, should be banned in schools.  It doesn’t benefit kids in any way.  Some say that it makes them feel better.  It does for a little bit, but then you crash and feel horrible.  It is bad for your health and bad for you, too!  Is your child having trouble in school?  Maybe junk food caused that, too!  Do you really want your child eating this?  If there is any solution to our “fat” problem, this is the right place to start.  Junk food should be banned!