Schools: Would Banning Junk Food Work?

I think in some way it would because i know during (when i went to school) I would see the junk food and want it ....and if there was none there that would be good because you couldn't pig out at home you have more access but at school you wouldn't and i'm sure the person would see results and/or feel more healthy

i think all food should be banned from the planet at this very moment from now on we shall all eat veggies

i think im too fat.....i weigh 500lbs!!!!

To the 500lbs guy/woman.. yes, you are too fat. Stop bitching on the internet and get off your ass.

eating disorder is'nt only about fatness and how our bodyshape look like, it is more how being healthy and live our how much we can control our willing to eat.

i disagree with it.. the real problem lies not in the schools but what the parents buy for their kids, and if the kids have an active lifestyle. plus if kids really want junk food they can just go to a store nearby the school and buy it themselves.. they need to make their own educted choices in what they eat, schools shouldnt make it for them. also, vending machine revenue, according to a liable source brings in $20,000-30,000/ year in a large secondary school... and healthy food is A LOT more expensive.

I think banning junk foods from schools won't do as much good as we hope. I think it would be better to have more education about nutrition as part of every student's curriculum. The only reason students eat so much junk food is that it wasn't iterated enough to them the importance of good nutrition, so they don't know what to eat and just eat what tastes good and is easily available. And most of their parents don't know much better, either.

By nutrition education, I mean it has to be taught on a scientific level, including our metabolisms, digestive systems, and cellular biology. If nutrition was given emphasis in school by actual qualified people, it would open a lot of eyes.

I like Fat Turkeys.

wait, i like skinny turkeys.

I know what you're eating, and I'm going to TURN YOU IN!!

School could try putting bottled water, packets of nuts, single serving packets of cheese and some dark chocolate bars. My opinion of food choices may not agree with some, but it might be better than corn chips and soda pop. They do need the money from those machines.

Another tact to take might be to restrict money. When my kids were in school, I bought lunch ticket books for them in elementary school or packed a lunch. They didn't have cash to put in a machine. Middle schooler might be harder to keep away from the machines, work with the school to put better stuff in there. Volunteer to help maintain the thing and search for good products to put in it.

I think that the only reason that kids eat so much junk food is because the food is easly buyable. Insted of completly ridding of junkfood thay should just back on the really fatty foods. I know that i an omly 14 but, i should still have my two thoughts. I don't think that having so much junk food is healthy, it is just a little uplift to our day. Somthing for us (me) to look forward to. Having a bad day and than having somthing good to eat for lunch, (along wih somthing halthy) makes my depressing life have reason.

I dont think it would work cause they are just going to go home and eat junk food there.

i think that we should be able to choose what we want to feed ourselves without people trying to go against our wants and needs. When you look up reliable sources telling you that the school makes a good profit off what they sell and we buy they should never try to take fatty foods from the schools.If people cant get it rfrom the school im very sure there going to find a way to bring it into the school anyway the people going against it is jus setting thereself up for failure because poeple are going to go out and buy junk food regardless aighh mainnnnnn

The idea of banning junk food is propstorous. I think we should all have the right to choose what we want to eat and when

i don't think banning food from schools will help because kids will bring from home which will be a biger serving than what they would get out of a vending machine and kids should know when to stop i think parents should take the anitive at home to make sure kids don't pig and make sure they are getting the balance at home and make kids active if any thing stop letting ur kids play video games that is a key factor even if u r eating health not being active will make u fat also

i feel that we have the right to choose what we eat. its your own fault if you eat too much junk food and get fat. dont deprive us of our right to eat junk food!

Is there any information on junk food that is on the pro side of it?

I think that the government is taking things too far. I don't see why they should be taking junk food out of high schools, at least. Middle schools & elementary schools, i can see why they would. High school students should be able to make their own choices. It's a much bigger issue than just banning it from the schools, anyways. i don't think they should, because then things are going to start getting out of hand. Sooner or later they're going to start putting an age limit on buying junk food! Haha, wouldn't that be a site. This is why I think this whole 'junk food ban' is absolutley ridiculous in some situations.

i am doing a research paper on this topic and i would like to hear what people from all over the world think about it so please spread the word and write me your answer directly at dstrzok@yahoo.com

I think that they should keep junk food because it will just make peolpe mad about that the fact is that they are banning junk food from schools and it is not are fault we get so fat its are parents fault and they should of stopped us a long time ago if they thought we were get so fat I'am doing a editoral story on this and I do think this is ridiculous and I'm standing up for what I think right and what I think is right is they should keep the junk food in the schools because peolpe are already going to bring junk food to school and I don't think it is right because some peolpe don;t have any food to eat at home because they don't have a home and I think that we shouldn't have people around my block acting like they are bums even tough they rae bums and I think it is sad and I think they should not be bums I think they should have a home to go to and really sad htey don't have a home and they have to beg for .50- $10.00 and I'm a helpufl person.

You should tsop complaining about that u are fat get over it we all ahve to DIEin are life it is ok and their are ways u exercise anyway:
1way is:Go on a diet.
2ways is:Do exercises.
3ways is:do sports or exmtreme sports.
4ways is:Get a Fat Burning tapes ofr dummies.
5ways is:EAT ALL HEALTY FOODS AND NO JUNK FOOD.
and the 500lbs guy/women u need to look at this and stop bitching about ur wait it will be ok.

The first reason I think that it was unfair was because the school would loose alot of money. Kids love candy and sugar and with the vending machines in the school kids would buy their junk food there, but since the vending machines were removed the kids in high school ( the ones that are allowed to leave school property ) will just walk to stores, which they will get the profit.

Another reason why I think that they shouldn't have put in the school nutritional policy is because when students have sugar, their adrenalin rushes and that will make them have extra energy to put more effort into their work, and if they are tired, bored and all out of energy they will not put that much effort into their work.

A third reason why is because I think it's pointless is because just because they take the junk food out of school they think that it will make the children healthier but they probably wont stop changing what they eat outside of school or taking junk food to school so it doesn't really matter at all. The problem doesn't have to do with school at all, it is what the children's parent's buy for them.

I don't think it is fair to the people that work for companies that sell pops and chips to schools for vending machines because they will loose alot of profit by that, because mostly everyone would buy things from the vending machines at school, that is one of the reasons why I wanted to come to high school so bad was so that we could have candy vending machines and then I get here and we don't have them anyways.

Some people interperet what people say into something totally the opposite. If you were to tell some kids that they took out their favourite candy bars because too many kids were obese they might take it the wrong way and start like not eating and begining to have an eating disorder. Some other kids might have diabetes and need sugar at sometimes and if they do not have any where are they going to get some, they can be severly hurt. Sometimes people only eat when their bored so if they made school a little more interesting maybe kids wouldn't eat half as much.

I don't think that I need to give any more reasons why they should not have taken the vending machines out of school. I think you get my point by now, well hopefully anyways.

there is alot of commenets about this ban. but there are positive sides as well as negitives also. i go to high school and do agree there is alot oif junk food. you can get rid of some of it but why all. if the obesity level increases dont put it out in those kids who actually have a healthier lifestyle. keep some junk food at least. i am writting an essay on if they should ban junkfood or not. and really i think they should not. its not school food thats getting us fat, its the way we live. im am in very good shape and yes i do eat healthy, but sometimes during a history lecture i want to just die of bordom. but whip out a candy bar and i have just enough energy for that class and even the next. you can ban junk food for all i care, but in my opinion leave some, like soda or something. give us something, schools gay enough as it is!!!

Eat Me said:
i think im too fat.....i weigh 500lbs!!!![...]

i LOVE junk food! and in a way it gives you energy. it has carbs. which gives students the energy they need to get through the day. &&you ALL know that you like junk food too so be quiet. :p

i love junk food. but heathy food is better for you. so there should be a mix of the 2 in schools.

banning candy from schools is unfair, because if a kid is fat they should decide for themselves whether or not to get off their butt, exercise, and go on a diet. they shouldnt have a decision made for them. the food at home that they pig out on is really the reason for a lot of obese kids, not the candy at school. its not like right when one piece of candy hits a kid's stomach, they're gonna weigh 1 thousand pounds!

no junk food

i dont think it should be aloud in schools its not healthy. (DUH)

ok first off you are old enough to know how to manage your body in middle and high school. if you insist on eating fatty foods dont go home and sit around. Get up and do something. Dont punish me who gets off my butt and runs everyday. I want to be able to eat candy bars at schools when i feel the need to. I dont wanna sneak them in and get suspended for having sugar in the school. Its crap. Eat good food at home and tell your unresponsible parents to buy heathly food and take some action. Get involed with something to keep yourself moving around. Its not that hard. trust me i run 75 miles a week. You dont need a baby sitter to walk around and tell you wat to eat. You cant be that stupid. I am 18 years old. 5'9" and about 150 lbs. I eat fatty foods all of the time but i also get up and stay active. Now i can have a candy bar at school because a few people wont get off of the couch. Thank you lazy people.

{michael
December 13, 2006 07:39 AM

i dont think it should be aloud in schools its not healthy. (DUH)}

So dont eat it. You have the choice. Dont make choices for everyone elso DJ is right 100%

Exercise is the main way to stay healthy, not saying that eat all you want of junk food and if you exercise you will be 100 percent healthy but taking it completely out of your life doesn't change much if you exercise!

ban it forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

junk food= empty calories
calories= fuel
empty fuel=not doing a good job at providing energy for your body

I totally agree with the need of education about nutrition. Is eating junk food really worth the diseases you can get? I believe in moderation sure candy and chips are satisfying once in a while, but there's a problem with obesity and cardiovasicular diseases which those candy and chips contribute too. You might know that those things aren't good for you so you don't eat as much of them but what about those that don't know and keep eating them because junk food tastes good to them and they aren't fully aware of the harm it can do in the future? If you look around it's not hard to spot a person (whether an adult or child) who's overweight.

banning junk food is not enough alone, people need to be educated and the elimanated junk food needs to be replaced with a healthier substitution. It's hard to make huge changes and I'm sure a healthier alternative can be thought of.

Thanks alot your fat as junkies. Thanks to you we cant have good food anymore..

Yall got to get off your ass and get a job and stop spending money on food and get exersized omg fat people

ok Its not are fault that people are getting fat. They just go home and sit around after they eat the food. have them get out and do something. make them lift or something. So why are we getting punished for what they are doing. They chose what to get not us. They can get healthy food. Were kids that what we do is eat junk food. Theres nothing wrong with that. Just the fat people are making it wrong because they eat it and dont do anything about it. What does pop have to do with anything. Ya it may make u fat in a way. But in school we walk around and do all that. So why did that get takend away. Either way the fat kids start eating junk food when they get home its not all the school. THERE MAKING EVERYONE ELSE NOT BE ABLE TO EAT IT WHEN THEY WANT. ok i eat junk food a lot and if you could see me im not fat. because i do things i run and i lift so thats what they need to do. L8R

ok Its not are fault that people are getting fat. They just go home and sit around after they eat the food. have them get out and do something. make them lift or something. So why are we getting punished for what they are doing. They chose what to get not us. They can get healthy food. Were kids that what we do is eat junk food. Theres nothing wrong with that. Just the fat people are making it wrong because they eat it and dont do anything about it. What does pop have to do with anything. Ya it may make u fat in a way. But in school we walk around and do all that. So why did that get takend away. Either way the fat kids start eating junk food when they get home its not all the school. THERE MAKING EVERYONE ELSE NOT BE ABLE TO EAT IT WHEN THEY WANT. ok i eat junk food a lot and if you could see me im not fat. because i do things i run and i lift so thats what they need to do. L8R

The amount of overweight kids at my school is scocking. If you are near the canteen you see fat kid after fat kid comeing out of the doors with pies, pasties and donuts. I am not for banning all this food because i like a bit variety in what i eat aswell but mabier look at some healthier options.