Brooke Schimek
Dr. Peter Dorman
English 111
February 6, 2015
Proposal Essay When walking into a college or school, there are a considerable amount of vending machines throughout the building. Looking closely at the choices of snacks, they are usually unhealthy having high fat content and sugar. Personally, I feel that it’s important to live a healthy lifestyle. Considering that the obesity rate has gone up over the years; we can help change that by opting for different snacks. That is why I strongly feel we should change the vending machine snack selections. Changing the food in the vending machine would help promote healthy eating habits. When you go to a vending machine most people get candy to satisfy their hunger, but it’s not the best thing for your body. People know that when choosing a snack from the machine, they are picking whatever is presented to them. Giving a healthy option would help them choose a better alternative for their wellbeing. This would help advocate choosing a healthy snack, such as a granola bar rather than a bag of chips.
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With that being said, striving to change snack options would help with the problem in the country. Knowing that people have to pick what’s offered, they have no choice but to buy what is displayed in the machine. It is a small gesture for helping with the weight issue by offering a healthy alternative. It may not be a drastic change, but it proves a point on making the right decision for your body. Eating healthy is for the benefit of your body and to maintain good health. This small change of replacing the snacks, is actually a big change for each person’s
Vending machines should be permitted in schools because they can be beneficial for. students who desire a light meal throughout the day. Vending machines are low in cost and are efficient. School lunches or lunches outside the school are more expensive than the food that could be provided in a vending machine. Students are not provided with a great amount of income especially if that income is coming from their parents. When students do not have a packed lunch, or not enough money to buy a school lunch, they are led elsewhere. But students could be led to vending machines whose food choices are on their budget. In addition to this, vending machines can have healthier options than a school’s standard lunch.
Furthermore, schools have become a paradise for fast-food franchises . Vending machines stocked with candy and soft drinks are unacceptable: nearly 19 out of 20 high schools in the U.S. have vending machines that sell pop, while almost 60 percent of elementary schools do. More than 70 percent of high schools sell can...
There are lots of other things that are filled with calories and are unhealthy that can lead to obesity. Might as well ban all the foods in the vending machine. Like sports drinks, yes they are for athletes who are tired and need to fuel up or simply for students who don’t want to drink water from the fountain. Little do people know that sports drinks are filled with sugar and calories! Why are they filled with all of that sugar? Because sugar gives you short term energy that will get you through your most boring class or help you stay awake in math class. Those treats are our prizes through getting through a whole class without getting into fights or falling
Some people may question why schools are only banning soft drinks and not junk food as well. Authors Beverly Ann and Ballaro Griswold address the concern recanting that schools do not want to only ban junk foods, because they amount to tens of thousands of dollars to schools profit annually. It is ridiculous to think that only banning soda will change anything overall. Even the artificial coloring and preservatives used in junk foods attribute hyperactivity in students(pars. 2-4). When I was in school, the lunches consisted of pizza sticks, biscuits and gravy, every kind of chip, and every Little Debbie snack imaginable. As it was back then, children can buy unlimited snacks and drinks. Some kids used to eat two or three pizza sticks, a bag of chips, “meatloaf”, all washed down with a Dr. Pepper. Making a little dent in the issue by banning sodas is chipping away at the bigger problem of things, sure, but it is not enough to make a remarkable difference. If students have such poor eating habits, they most likely stem from the home they grow up
Although, lots of people say vending machines have too much unhealthy food and nutrition lacking food. That is true in some cases, but vending machines have good and nutritious food too. Also, how is the unhealthy food in vending machines different than the unhealthy food given in school lunches? It’s
Firstly we need vending machines because sometimes people don’t eat in the mornings and afternoons. We need vending machines for students that get hungry during the day. We could earn more money for our school. We could help our friends out by buying them a snack. We need vending machines to fill our hunger.
Snacks everyone likes snacks and vending machines people all over the world has their favorite snack or drink that they like to eat or sip on . In most schools they have vending machines with the kids favorite snack or drink the kids like to eat.The government is trying to take the good snacks we like because they think that the vending machines are causing obesity.But my opinion is that it doesn't and my paper is about to explain why.
Food is a major part of everyone’s everyday life. It’s hard to imagine life without the chocolate cake on your fingers or a carne asada taco in your mouth. Enjoying delicious desserts and fast food seem extremely magnificent to eat and spend money buying them. Although, there have been many controversies in the United States on how it’s the largest country with the most obesity regarding children, which affects their health, many people are still going throughout their day snacking. Many people in America are having full course meals with thousands of calories in one sitting not knowing the short term or long term side effects that are going to take a huge toll on their lives. Food is delicious, but it comes with a secret behind the savoriness/sweetness.
I should receive a passing grade in this class because I can write now. Not just an exaggeration, but after another semester of English I finally feel confident that can write. Three of the reasons behind my confidence is I learned, I experienced and best of all I repeated. These three values helped prepare me for what is in store in English 1302 and here is why.
The need for healthy vending machine is expressed by general public too , and according to a study the consumers’ demand for healthy vending snacks and beverages is on the rise (Bishop et al., 2014, p.1); “many states, cities and counties” are expressing interest in implementing healthy vending policies, however majority of the states have not developed a policy yet (Bishop, et al., 2014t). The need to avoid high sugary foods is also expressed by many organizations, such as the American Heart Association, center for disease control, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, confirm that there is a need to reduce the sugar intake,(Union of Concerned Scientists, 2014, para.1). These trends are all aligned with my proposed policy and confirm that the public opinion is moving toward a reduction of sugar intake.
According to CDC, childhood obesity has dramatically increased in youth ages 12-19 years old in the last 30 years. This is a big problem for youth. Having vending machines in schools that give access to unhealthy drinks and high sugar or salty snacks is not a good way to fight this problem. Due to unhealthiness, overspending, and companies just caring about profit are reasons why vending machines should be banned from schools. Therefore, schools should not allow vending machines.
Schools should be allowed to sell a wide variety of foods ranging from healthy to unhealthy, but new nutritional standards set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture prevents this from happening. The “Smart Snacks in School” program, which took effect last year on July 1 at all schools in the national school lunch program, introduced restrictions on the foods not only sold in school lunches, but also in vending machines and fundraisers taking place during the school day. Among the many restrictions are limits on calorie count, sodium levels, and fat percentage (“Smart Snacks in School”). This program, in collaboration with First Lady Michelle Obama, is said to be devoted to lowering the rates of youth obesity. However, Pamela Paulsen, the fundraising chairwoman for Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, does not agree. Upon mentioning how the rules are only effective during the school day, she stated, “I don’t see it as a good policy at all. Childhood obesity isn’t what happens between 7 and 3” (“New school nutrition guidelines”).
The schools provide the students with healthy and nutritious food that they eat, but their are the vending machines and that is a whole different thing. The vending machines sale unhealthy high- calorie snacks and beverages and that affects the assurance that students are having access to healthy eating. This does not necessarily mean the end to vending machines. Instead of unhealthy foods they can just change that to food that are
The issue of “junk” foods in school grounds has been an issue over the past few years because of America’s rising numbers of obese people. As a student, I don’t think that the food is the problem here, but, as the Center for Consumer Freedom claims as well, it is the individual. It isn’t really a game of taking a variable out of an equation and hoping that it works, but more as a complex equation that needs tweaks on many levels. How is banning these foods going to stop child obesity if they can just buy the unhealthy food outside of school at a local 7-11? Rather than that, teaching students to have more common sense in order to develop more personal responsibility has it’s benefits in both diet and everyday practices. Point of the matter is that we don't need to change the food served, but change the people who eat it.
A healthy diet as well as physical activities goes hand-in-hand in promoting a healthy lifestyle for individuals and a healthy workplace wellness for the population. One possible approach the company can adopt is to offer healthier snack choices available in the pantry. More often than not, unhealthy snack options like instant noodles, potato chips, assorted biscuits and sweetened drinks, with little to no nutritional value are found in most companies’ pantry. On occasions when employees are busy rushing for deadline, they would be grabbing whatever is available in the pantry to satisfy their hunger in the middle of the day or settle for their lunch. As such, the company could consider replacing the unhealthy snacks with healthier options like nuts, dried fruits and milk (Lauren Lastowka, 2011). Furthermore, they could take one step further by introducing “fruits day” whereby the company can cater fresh-cut fruits to all employees once every week.