The Impact Of Public Schools On Childhood Obesity By Gregory Critser

There are many solutions for helping childhood obesity, but some of them may be shams just to get our money. Which solutions are worthwhile to help our children struggling with their weight? Maybe Greg Critser, writer of “Too Much of a Good Thing”, has a few opinions on what some of the solutions suggest. Critser thinks that maybe the parents are to blame for their children’s eating habits. He talks about what promotes children to eat more, for example, they don’t know when they are full, and when they are full, they just may want to feel like a rebel when their parents are away, and attack the pantry. There was an experiment where there were two groups of kids, one of three-year-olds and another of five-year-olds. The children were given

What could be a good solution to our school lunches to help children get the right food is, maybe do what Japan does for their lunches, make them from scratch, have longer lunch breaks and treat children equally who aren’t as financially stable as others. In an article, “What Japan Can Teach Us About School Lunches” by Dana Woldow, Japanese students learned the, “you get what you pay for” motto. Also, Japan doesn’t have 15 minute lunch breaks; they have almost an hour lunch break. Woldow concludes that, “High quality healthy food costs more than cheap processed junk…food is not promoted by a 15 minute lunch break; and no one benefits when school lunch policies segregate students by income” (Woldow). Woldow says that until America is willing to invest these kinds of changes in school meals, our school meals will lag behind other countries and continue to have the highest obesity rate in children. So either start making changes, or maybe to start off simple, remove vending

No, there is no definite answer for such a broad issue. All these questionable solutions can help us get closer to finding a solution to childhood obesity. But there are still more solutions out there. Childhood obesity is a cause of children overeating, not getting enough exercise because of technology, and schools. Finding a solution is as hard as finding a needle in a hay stack. There are so many good ideas, but it is that one solution you want, and it’s impossible to find. So, where might you find that one solution? Does it add on to all the other solutions? The solutions to childhood obesity maybe putting children on diets, or just letting them get outside for an hour, or even a specific camp made for kids to lose weight and get a healthier lifestyle. Or maybe it’s as simple as removing vending machines from schools; the solutions are endless to childhood obesity. But how do we enforce them? What happens if it doesn’t work? Do we try another solution until one works? Many people are still trying to solve this crisis, and children are getting more and more obese each year. There is a small window to solve this issue, and to find a strong, and dependable solution for it. So we continue to look for answers to childhood obesity, but for now, there is no exact answer for what we can do to help children struggling with