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Junk food messes up your brain, body, and health. It causes many sickness and diseases to many people. Junk food also causes addiction to children. Children are the main people that shouldn’t eat junk food a lot especially while still in school. They will never be able to focus to the work the teacher gives them with all the sugar in their system.

Over the years, obesity has increased dramatically and is continually taking control of our nation. This is due to the growth of consumption of popular, but unhealthy food and lack of suitable exercise. Which the newest Guidelines emphasis fewer calories and more exercise to be the biggest stress factor (“school lunches,” 2011, June 20). Students spend the majority of their time at school with in a day, five times a week. When lunch break comes around and starving kids that have had little to no breakfast from an early morning, they tend to over eat whatever is available to them, which may not be healthy, depending on what is served.

Schools need to focus on producing not only smart kids, but healthy ones as well. Kids rely on their schools to provide them with a nutritional meal, but often times are given unhealthy meals that lead to the obesity epidemic. Therefore, junk food should be banned in schools. There is no avoiding junk food advertisements because it shows up on social media, TVs, radios, vending machines, billboards, logos, etc. Companies spend on average $148 million a year on advertising in schools in commercials, equipment, vending machines, and rewards programs.

Double no. Junk food increases the amount of overweight children in America. Junk food is also decreasing the amount of time you have for your future. Which means that junk food is killing you a little bit each time you eat it. Is your life worth eating unhealthy food?

“Our Schools need to start teaching kids how to be healthy.”- Unknown. School lunches have created a chronic problem in a school setting, and since it hasn't been fixed, 6-11 year olds have had a 17% increased chance of becoming obese (Centers for Disease control and Prevention). Most school districts don't even bother changing the food restrictions just so they can please their students. Unhealthy school lunches are a huge problem among children in the United States, it can cause obesity, stress, and many other problems. One problem among school lunches is how all the unhealthy foods build up over time and cause obesity.

The more access kids have with unhealthy food, is the schools because schools have junk foods and how hard is it to ask mom or dad for some money for they can get some chips, pop, candy and all those unhealthy snacks, and not getting yelled at by their parents. Because of obesity the number is increasing in America we should ban all junk foods from schools. More than 40 percent of children are over weight mostly because of unhealthy foods and lack of exercise. The parents should be more involved in the kids eating habits. They should talk with their children what they can or can’t eat on the school menus.

School Lunch Problems Childhood obesity is a big problem and is highly talked about in today 's society. Some researchers connect childhood obesity to what the children in our schools eat at lunch. According to “Children and Fast Food”, more than one-third of American children and adolescents ate some form of fast food every day in the mid-2010s (n.pag). Childhood obesity has doubled from what it use to be three decades ago and has been getting worse every year. Every generation of kids has liked junk food, however, the kids in the current generation are eating it more often at school and at home.

The overweight epidemic can be caused by many factors, but schools meals are a major contributor. Every day thousands of students consume school meals, unaware of the low nutritional value they hold. The United States government has done some work to protect and improve this problem by setting regulations with the U.S.DA, but it is not enough. School nutritional standards need to be improved for the safety and wellbeing of our children. Over the years the school lunches have dropped their nutritional standards and our children are paying the price with their lives.

On kids, junk food causes signs of sleepiness, aches and general malaise. But as time goes by and the habit only increases, their health is noticeably affected. With high fat, sodium and calorie content, as well as low nutritional value, it is impossible for a majority of the student population not to develop future health problems. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases, asthma, cancer and risk of death are what statistics have showed to be the effects of consuming fast foods. There is 0% chance that a meal containing previously presented nutritional value and possible health damage can be beneficial for humans, especially not kids, because the body can’t extract any nutrient from it.

Unhealthy cafeteria food is a problem for countless reasons. Eating unhealthy foods at school at an early age can lead to bad eating habits for the rest of your life. This leads to obesity in children, and continuing to adults. “Currently over two thirds of states in America have obesity rates. For adults over twenty percent and nearly 1 in 3 children are overweight or obese.”(Scheff, Examiner, Food Revolution) This is just one of the ways that cafeteria food affects you in a negative way.