I have been hearing a lot about the ban of soda within public schools today. I do agree that many young teens are becoming unhealthy much faster, but we do have to ask ourselves if taking out the soda in public school will indeed make a differnce in the diets of the students. Yes, they will have less sugar to depend on making them more likly to drink water or healthy juices like apple juice. It has been said that they will be taking out the soda machines and replacing them with gatorade machine and power aid machines. we do have to ask ourselves yet again if those drinks are better to drink than soda or are they equal as bad for the teens that are consuming these sugar filled drinks? Juices such as these can be reduced in sugar but it is not anything to rave about. In addition, sudents are then going to bring into the schools their own sodas to drink throughout the day. The schools cannot take away what their parents allow them to have so I am sure that students will find other alternatives to drinking their usually amounts of soda in a day.
if the country wants to reduce the weight of many teens then they need to allow phyical activities for longer periods of time. they also need to reduce the amount of food that they serve for lunch while subsituting better, healthier foods for the bad ones that are most likly given on a daily basis. I remember going to school and being served french fries daily. if you were nice to the lunch ladies they would give you more for free. so that says alot for why many teens are becoming over weight at such an early age.
Yes, they should have more pe and more time to run. They should also remove the pizza (or serve it once a week, in my school they served it daily and it was bad for me) Besides making the kids fat, they should also remove the fatty food, before the parents sue the school, like they sue so many other places
I tend to think by high school, kids (young adults) have the ability to make some responsible decisions for themselves...
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Oh I agree with this too - I don't see any reason to ban unhealthy foods, just provide better access to the healthy ones.
I agree with everything except reducing the amount of food served - food should be cheap and readily available, just healthier. I think schools overcharge kids by a significant amount, but since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm willing to give them the cash to satisfy my hunger.
My school has a salad bar, but it's totally gross - I swear they leave the lettuce out for days at a time. If they put as much time into keeping up the salad bar as they do into making sure their chicken nugget bin is full, I'd be happier.
I have several health-related objections to the soda ban, though - see my post on the matter.
Just don't raise the kids on soda...my kids drink water and milk.
At my high school, they've taken out all machines except for water machines. The cafeteria food has been totally revamped, and in my opinion, for the better. Sophomore year I bought a soda every day and drank it during my first period class. I miss that, but the overall quality of the food has increased, and the student population didn't seem to mind the soda machines were gone, so long as the food was tolerable.
I don't think there should be any soda bans in schools because not all sodas are bad for you because there's good sodas (like Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, and Coca-Cola One) that children can drink. Furthermore, I don't think its a good idea for schools to only have Gatorade and Powerade machines because if children drink too much Gatorade or Powerade, then they'll gain weight instead because not only does Gatorade and Powerade have a lot of calories, but they have a lot of sugar.
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