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Childhood Obesity Persuasive Essay

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Childhood obesity is a disease that no parent wants for their children. Childhood obesity is when a child is overweight for their age. This can lead to many unhealthy factors in one's life. Childhood obesity can be triggered by fast food commercials or even school lunches. If schools don't give children the nutrients they need children will eventually just eat junk and become obese. I believe that schools and food advertisements are the main culprits. Schools give food that either doesn't taste good or students could not eat. According to Paragraph 3, "A cramped public-school test kitchen might seem an unlikely outpost for a food revolution. But Collazo and scores of others across the country—celebrity chefs and lunch ladies, district superintendents, and politicians—say they're determined to improve what kids eat in school. Nearly everyone agrees something must be done. Most school cafeterias are staffed by poorly trained, badly equipped workers who churn out 4.8 billion hot lunches a year" (Paragraph 3). If school cafeterias don't have lunch ladies that are fit for the job why hire them. Some lunch ladies could give one food that students are allergic to. For example, if they serve frozen pineapple and a student eats them they can easily get sick. …show more content…

With so many apps around can get food easily. UberEATS delivers the food right to your door you don't have to get up and make food for yourself. According to Paragraph 5, "So the kids buy muffins, cookies and ice cream instead—or they feast on fast food from McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, which is available in more than half the schools in the nation. Vending machines packed with sodas and candy line the hallways" (Paragraph 5). Hungry students have to feast on junk food. I believe we can change this system of eating junk food

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