Children health

Nowadays, society had raised their concern towards children’s health status. Children nowadays are more likely to be obese, unhealthy and face problems on concentrating during class. Society belief that the major reason that affected children’s health status is them taking too much of junk food, sales of junk food in school canteens made children easily access to junk food as they can get them in school canteens. Sales of junk food in school canteens should be banned as these foods contain low nutrition and unhealthy additives, affected health problems towards children, created litter problem and school is a major role for changing children’s eating habits.

A lots of unhealthy additives are contain in junk food in order to make these foods taste good and look better. To enhance flavour and make sure they attract children and to increase shelf life, chemicals additives are added into foods. Many junk foods are common with synthetic flavour enhancers and also they contained high fat, salt or sugar (Smith 2005). Foods like biscuits, cookies, chips, confectionery, hamburgers, instant noodles and soft drink are categorises as low nutritional value foods (Health Foundation 2005). Those unhealthy additive would damage children's health in a direct way as they are not suitable to be contained in foods.

Children overeating junk food resulted them had a poor health status. Childhood obesity are stated increased as the major cause is eating too much of junk food (Smith 2005), their weight and kilojoule intake raised as well (Tran 2005). Children taking too much junk food resulted them face difficulty in concentrating and hyperactivity in class (Smith 2005). In the same time children's healthy development, growth, learning potential (www.channel5.org 2005), behavioural problems will be affected as well (Caputo 2005). A teacher of Hillview Primary School claims that after removal of junk foods and soft drink in canteens, students shows improvement in academic result