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Synthesis Essay On Childhood Obesity

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Cara Smith
AP Language and Composition
Mrs. Li
3/21/23

Synthesis Essay

Throughout the world people’s diets and exercising are vastly different, and what school you go to can also into what you get fed. Although schools are providing healthy food options and schools are setting up exercising programs for the kids benefits, children make their own choice whether or not to eat the healthy options and exercise. Whether it is the influence of unhealthy foods being advertised, how much time kids are spending on physical activity or if they are even getting any physical activity outside of school, or the personal everyday choice of children and teens to either use the resources they have to eat healthy and not throw their healthy food options away while at school. There is a certain hold that junk food and getting into a comfortable lifestyle that Americans have and these three things prove that point.
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