Beginning to a Healthier Childhood
...esterol, but also help cut down on the cost of lunch room foods. Lunch rooms would only have to cook one meal for lunch, rather than the two lunches they were cooking. School systems also need to quit letting the kids have pop to drink with their meals. For one it has too much caffeine, and we know that they are hipper enough as it is. Secondly it is high in calories and carbohydrates. They should only have the choice of water, juice, or milk. Drinking these things is good for their health and teeth, and may help some kids not be so hipper active, because of all the caffeine. School systems should also take away snack time and coke breaks. These promote bad eating habits. If children get any break during the day to rest their minds, school systems should not be letting them junk up their bodies with bad food. During these allotted times, teachers could play a game with some physical attribute or exercising. Also for elementary students during recess, the school could have group activities. The kids could pick a game, and the teacher could make up teams. During recess each day they could have a mini tournament between each team in the class. This will stop the kids from bringing their game boys and such to school, and have the kids up and doing something productive. Not only will playing games at recess give the kids exercise, but show team work, sportsmanship, and social encounters with people they normally would not talk to. School systems need to do something to keep their minds off of mid day snacks. School systems should also make physical education a mandatory class all the way through high school. Students need to be playing sports or exercising instead of playing video games, and talking or text messaging on cell phones. Physical education teachers should find fun ways for kids to get exercise. A simple game of Simon Says could be turned into an aerobic exercise. If kids could have physical education every day, or just three times a week for thirty minutes, it would make up the suggested weekly amount of exercise. If school systems can not make allotted time for physical education three times a week, having physical education one day a week is better than none. Having physical education in kids’ lives will make them healthier, and maybe they will keep up the habit of some kind of healthy activity throughout their lives. Parents also need to step back and take a look at what bad influences they are placing on their children. In most families both parents work and after a hard days work most people look for the easiest thing to fix for dinner. Majo...