Junk and Fast Food

tear apart and spendthrift-flying forage Junk and card-playing viands bargain should be limited or banned in man schools as these nutrient items assimilate no nutritional value. stead ready intake of chuck out aliment delivers obesity and m either an other(prenominal)(a) wellness tie in problems for children in the proximo. The main cause for the increase in gross bargains of snacks and pan nutriment is its increased availability and misguidance of nutritional value. Vending machines argon installed in everyday schools which has given a boost to the sales of altercate diet. This rubble food not only lacks in nutrition, but alike it is the main cause of obesity in the young population and uprising in heart problems in the adolescents. Nutritional Quality of Junk and Fast Food There is a conflict between the education of florid diets at childs home and classroom and the availability of cast out and lush(a) food at lunch such as burgers and chips (Hoer r, 386). Not only the children assimilate the pan food available but also they consume easygoing drinks which be an added un sun-loving intake. Young teenagers studying in creation schools be the heaviest consumers of junk and fast food. They obtain around 25 to 40 percent of their total energy from junk and fast food (Hoerr, 386). The vended junk and fast foods are the least dense in Vitamins, fiber, protein and iron (Hoerr, 386). Type of items that are usually available for sale at the public schools is bakery sweets, candies, chips, biscuits and burgers. in all these items are calorie filled with little or no nutrition. alimental food helps the child in school to gain energy as well as nutrients such as iron, calcium, vitamins and proteins. These nutrients are good for health of the child and keep the child active. A proper meal in the school allows the child to obtain these nutrients that are necessary for a healthy body and brain. Rise in Demand for Junk and Fast FoodT he total sale of vended snacks and other fast food available at the public schools increases continually every year (Hoerr, 386). Since the 1990s the sale of junk food and snacks has been predicted to rise every year by the food marketers. Marketers of the fast food and junk items beat got a sore market to focalise on which is the adolescents in public schools.Fast food and vended snacks have mystify a popular choice for the youngsters, who need readily available food, when they savour hungry, and food which can be consumed easily and quickly (Hoerr, 386). This increasingly popular fast foods and snack items are the main factors which lead to obesity in the young people attending schools. Regular intake of this type of junk food with no nutrients causes obesity in children and other health related problems. concord to a survey in New York and battle of Atlanta, of the total 18% of daily round out calorie intake, the junk food contributed to roughly half of the fat intake i n adolescents (Hoerr, 386). Therefore half of the daily fat intake can be avoided by stopping the intake of junk food and fast food.The snacks marketers are now tar functioning public schools as their new target markets for increasing their sales of their junk and fast food items. by means of the installation of unrefrige appraised hawking machines in public schools, the marketers were able to increase the sale of junk food products. Not only this, but through the mistaking of nutritional value of their products, they are able to make the adolescents consume junk food in place of breakfast. 6% of the youngsters (Hoerr, 386) who were surveyed in New York and Atlanta said they took junk food in place of breakfast.Obesity and another(prenominal) Health Issues The availability of junk and fast food in public schools allows more calories for each meal (S.B Communications, 95) for the children and youngsters. Physical exercise has been diminished in the schools because of the introduct ion of new activities such as computer studies and gaming. Our lifestyle has produce more and more dependent upon technology. Technology and innovation has given get to new transport methods which are faster and require less walkway to get to your destination.Children used to go out and play for fun and entertainment. The adolescents had other outdoor activities which helped in burning their fat intake, but nowadays the youngsters have other replacements such as computer games, internet and television. These platforms require no physical activity and therefore the fat intake from junk food does not get utilize. These were some(a) of the reasons because of which the youngsters are getting more rotund and gaining fat in their bodies.However, the main reason for the increased number of cases in obesity is the rising trend of having junk and fast food in replacement of meals. In the 1970s, a typical child used to train television for an hour daily but nowadays a child watches telev ision for three hours (S.B Communications, 95). This caloric intake of junk and fast food combined with no physical activities, has caused an increase in obesity rate to 20% from 5% (S.B Communications, 95) since the 1970s. The rate for African American adolescents is even extravagantly and has reached 35% (S.B Communications, 95). The only way to reduce these rates is to restrict or completely ban the sale of junk and fast food in public schools.The regular intake of junk and fast food does not only increase a persons weight but also causes other health concerns. Especially in young adults, the regular consumption of fast food can reduce the ability of the body to fight the germs as there is very less nutritional intake. This causes the bodys defenses to be weak against any germs attacks. Other health issues that the regular consumers of fast food and junk food can experience are cardiac unrest, Coronary Artery jeopardy Development, increased waist circumference, lower insulin resistance and imbalance between the developments of High-Density Cholesterols and curio Cholesterols in body.Although obesity causes some of the above mentioned diseases and health issues, but the person consuming junk food regularly is bound to have some or all of these health problems. Most of the junk foods have high sugar contents, which reduce the resistance of insulin to produce controlled sugar for the body. The adolescents and children in public schools can develop these diseases at a very early level because of junk food intake. Hence junk and fast food items sale should be banned or at least restricted in all the public schools to protect the youngsters from developing these diseases and falling prey to obesity.Junk Food and Education on NutritionAccording to a efficacy member of Department of Nutrition, University of Nevada, the children and youngsters should be taught the basics of nutrition and how fundamental it is to get involved in physical exercise (Omaye, 108) . According to this member of faculty, labeling food as junk and trying to get it out of the schools is not important (Omaye, 108) as education on basic nutrition and exercise is. I would strongly disagree to the view point of this faculty member and would keep going the suggestion of US Dept. of Agriculture which has defined competitive foods to be those other than the ones served in the school lunch/breakfast program and offered at schools (Omaye, 108).The US Dept. of Agriculture has suggested that alternatives to the current fast food should be real and offered at public schools. This competitive food will be more alimentary and healthy than the junk and fast foods available for sale at the public schools nowadays. On the other hand, the faculty member in University of Nevada, Department of Nutrition, has suggested not to restrict the sale of junk food in public schools preferably the children should be taught around the nutritious foods and importance of exercise. This is v ery similar to suggesting that drugs should be available for sale to the children but they should be taught about the adverse affects of abusing drugs.We should take in that most of the children and the adolescents are not mature enough to think about the adverse affects of the junk food and fast food. They like the taste of the junk food and the convenience of having fast food whenever they feel hungry.Trends towards Nutritious SnacksAccording to the research conducted by Hoerr and Louden in 1993, there is a invite for healthy and nutritious snacks in public schools (Hoerr, 389). In their research, they placed peddle machines labeled healthy snacks near to the junk food vending machines in a number of public schools. They recorded more sales from the vending machines selling healthy and nutritional snacks than the one selling junk food. This distinctly shows that the youngsters have a preference for nutritious snacks over junk and fast food.Although some nutritious snacks are a vailable in the market, but they have not been able to eye the competent junk and fast food brands in the market. One reason for the poor success of nutritional snacks is the inaccessibility of vending machines at the places where junk food vending machines are placed. some other reason for their failure is that not many nutritious snacks have been developed for unrefrigerated vending machines (Hoerr, 389).ConclusionAccording to a study conducted by Marcia Dadds, almost one third of the school children in New York are large(p) (Dadds, S63). Most of the students did not like the lunch offered at school and spend $3 to $7 (Dadds, S63) on fast food meals. Although most of the students bang about the health, appearance and weight problems that the junk and fast food cause but still they are unable to give it up because of the conventional taste. Because of the problems the fast food and junk food cause to the health of children and because of no nutritional value, it should be avail able in a restricted fashion or completely banned from public schools. Other alternatives such as nutritious snacks should be embraced by the public schools for the betterment of health and future of the children.