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... Students may be junk food junkies, but the schools are hooked too, increasingly dependent on the revenue that soda and candy machines bring in each year. ... On the other side, children are taught in the classroom about good nutrition and the value of healthy food choices but are surrounded by vending machines, school stores, fund raisers, offering low nutrient density options, they receive the message that good nutrition is merely an academic exercise. ... Children spend a lot of time in schools and are afforded a great deal of freedom in selecting snack foods. Schools can and should provide an environment that exemplifies a healthy relationship with food.
The rising obesity rates in children are shocking, but considering that kids live in a junk-food, couch- potato culture, they are not surprising.
Approximate Word count = 572
Approximate Pages = 2.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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