“Junk Food and its Affects on Childhood Obesity” According to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion‚ the rate of childhood obesity has tripled in the last 30 years. Although there are many contributing factors to this statistic‚ junk food has proven itself to be the leading cause of this epidemic. The problem with junk food is its lack of nutritional value. When you turn on the television‚ you are inundated with fast food and junk food commercials. Excessive
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RUNNING HEAD: Junk food should not be in schools Are junk foods in schools a reason children are becoming so obese these days? I think it has a part of it. Children start seeing vending machines and soda machines in schools as soon as they begin their education. They see their parents and teachers and other adults eat and drink the items out of the vending machine and soon enough the children themselves are drinking a can of soda a day or sugared filled drink and a candy bar. This is a bad
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Addiction to Junk Food Everyday‚ millions of people consume the so-called addictive "junk food.” Most of the people who do not have time‚ or find it affortable eat in fast food restourants such as McDonalds‚ Burger King‚ and many others. Junk food is addictive because of many reasons such as saving time. The junk food can be clasified in few categories - snacks‚ fast food‚ and soft drinks. First come the snacks‚ which are being brought everyday by millions of people who are not conserned about
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are killing themselves with food. Everywhere I go‚ all I see is fast-food restaurants‚ lousy eating habits and unconscious people. They don’t seem to make eating habits a priority anymore. I think that people forgot one of the fundamental aspects of the human body: you are what you eat. If you eat fat‚ you will be fat. It is as logical to me as saying that if you drink five gallons of gasoline‚ you will die. Thus‚ I think that children should begin learning good food habits at a young age‚ so that
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------------------------------------------------- Obesity Junk food plays a major role in the obesity epidemic. By the year 2050‚ the rate of obesity in the U.S. is expected to reach 42 percent‚ according to researchers at Harvard University. Children who eat fast food as a regular part of their diets consume more fat‚ carbohydrates and processed sugar and less fiber than those who do not eat fast food regularly. Junk food in these children’s diets accounts for 187 extra calories per day‚ leading
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“Junking junk food” – Judith Warner In this article the author is trying to show us how our country has become very unhealthy nation. Warner believes that to end the obesity in the country the government needs to be involved. They should make healthy food more appealing while making the junk food less appealing. There are a lot of people whom are worrying and trying to change the way majority of American people eat. Because almost 40% of American people are fat‚ and that because the way they eat
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many schools in the UAE started selling junk food and fast food to the students. Junk food and fast food is known for causing obesity among people all around the world. As Dubai Health Authority (DHA) public relation agency we will try to raise awareness about the harmful effects of junk food and fast food on people especially the students who still in schools‚ and why junk food and fast food should should be banned in schools across the UAE. Dubai Health Authority (DHA)‚ was created in June 2007
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Professor Blaine Writing IV 20 February 2013 Junk food advertising Subject 1: Because of the alarming rate of childhood obesity and the power of advertising to attract children‚ a growing number of people think that junk food advertising should be banned or limited in some way. Would you be for or against such a ban? Write a persuasive paragraph in which you develop and support your position on this issue. I strongly believe that junk food advertising should not be banned because it
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The target of this intervention is to cut back on fatty foods and decrease weight by exercising on a daily basis in doing so by playing basketball‚ consuming under 2000 calories daily and increasing the amount of green tea ingested. The benefits of performing this lifestyle change are having to be active in which the body creates endorphins‚ speeding metabolism and boosting up one’s confidence. Many things can go wrong in this experiment. One thing to take into consideration is the influence of family
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The Government had set out a ban to prevent junk food from being sold to children at canteens. Mark Fraser had written a letter to a newspaper company called Community Chronicle on the 29th of October 2010 to share his disbelief at the government’s vain attempt to prevent obesity. Throughout this piece‚ he uses an attacking tone. He aims to target the audience of parents with children in schools to agree with him on his contention that this vain attempt will not benefit the children. Since the
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