The New York Times

URL:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/us/02school.html?_r=1&ref=health&oref=slogin

The discussion:Junk Food in School

Annta: What’s your opinion on selling junk food like candy, chocolate, drink in school?
Paloma: It’s will provide the percentage of obesity.
Beverly: If pupils have too much junk food in their daily life, they will loose their interests in vegetables.
Lisa: Besides, it can cause cancer.
Annta: Our future will die in ingesting too much junk food.
Paloma: Should schools sell junk food or not?
Annta: I think selling an average of snacks can be accepted. We can’t take away the students’ rights to have snacks.
Beverly: I still don’t agree that junk food is available in school.
Lisa: Due to the news, lots of children who like sweets get overweight easily. Therefore, the frequency of exercising decreases.
Paloma: I think that junk food is still being sold in schools, but schools should also teach them that eating junk food harms their health.
Beverly: We should promote that milk and vegetable are healthier than junk food.
Annta: Companies that sell snacks may argue with this politic that their benefit in schools have been cut down. So the government should think of other ways to help these companies.
Lisa: Also, these snack companies should produce snacks based on students’ health. For example, some factories were reported using trans fats just to save more money, and this is very bad.
Beverly: When they are producing those snacks, they should add more nutrients like Vitamin A and Calcium.
Paloma: The kitchens in schools should use Oliver oil instead of trans fats to fry food.
Annta: The problems of selling junk food in schools have been discussed for years, but haven’t got any solutions. Food factories should make some changes on the ingredient of their products, that way; the whole society will become healthier.
Lisa: Governments should take this issue really seriously. After all, these kids are the masters of the country in the future. The fatter they are, the weaker the country will be.
Beverly: Every one of us would become parents, so next time when we are having chips, we should think twice before we put them into our mouths.
Paloma: I think that junk food is fast to acquire and sometimes it’s delicious, but we still shouldn’t eat too much of it, and we cant’s take it as ordinary meal as well.