Should fast food advertising be allowed in schools

Eng 101 Vixama Markinson
Essay #1 5/13/2010


Should fast food advertising be allowed in schools?

Today in the 21th century fast food are the most selling food in the United States. That’s the reason why obesity is one of the biggest problems in this country. Even though fast food is not healthy but there is a lot of fast food advertising all over in school especially public school. this fast food advertising should not be allowed in school because the government keeps telling us that fast food is not good for our children, than they had fast food advertising all over the school. Those advertising vending machines influence children to buy junk food and they gain over weigh.
The first reason fast food advertising should not be allowed in school is because of the health problems. Fast food makes people gain over weigh also it makes us get sick because the is a lot of food and drinks out there that have high fructose. For example, hamburgers, ice cream, soda, etc contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients and also have long been suspected of leading to lower calcium levels and higher phosphate levels in the blood. So when phosphate levels are high and calcium levels are low, calcium is pulled out of the bones. This means calcium is pulled out of the bones can makes you get injury easy when you playing sport or exercise, this problems can happen when you get older and also when you a child.
Eating fast food can also make catch a lot of diseases especially by children. Fast food is responsible for many health problems that include heart disease, cancer, high level of cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes etc. One article that supports my idea is fast food and obesity in America, “Bills that would require school to serve healthier lunches, vending machines selling sweets soda, and so on have been introduced in a number of state legislatures. By the way, Britain – with the second-highest obesity among advanced countries- has introduced stringent new guidelines on school meals”.( Krugman 2) because of those problems fast food advertising should not be allowed in schools.
The government and the teacher keeps tell young kids not to eat fast food advertising but is all over the school is fast food. And kids love fast food because those food are really cheep and have a better taste, than made more people buy them, The reason why most of the junks that we are eating have corn inside and that is the main reason for obesity in the United States because people are buying junk food more and pay more attention to junks food then healthy food. Another article that support my idea is personal health; Schools teach 3 c s: candy, cookies and chips, “Beginning in preschool, children are exposed to thousands of message from advertisers that can corrupt the food lessons their parent hope to teach them” That’s why they should stop complaining about fast food advertising and stop saying is not good for us then they government won’t make extra money over it. The best thing the government should do is put more healthy food out there Stop advertising junk food especially around school because most people who are affected by the obesity are teenagers. And also the government should try to decrease the obesity in the United States because too many people have died by those diseases like heart disease, cancer, high level of cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes etc. the best solution the government should do stop advertising fast food because it is not helping put more healthy food out in the community.
That’s why I agree for fast food advertising should not be allowed in school because of health problem in gain over weigh problem. A better idea is the government should put more healthy food out there than the junk food that is in the vending machines.