Beating our Junk Food Generation with Tips from a Local Expert An insight into how we can provide healthy food choices for our kids but while keeping it fun! By Claire Whittleston March 8‚ 2011 “I don’t want Brussels sprouts‚ Mommy! Can I have a cookie with ice cream on top?”Sound familiar? It’s frightful to say‚ but we are living in a junk food generation and many of our children don’t eat enough of their fruits and vegetables. Over the past three decades‚ childhood obesity rates in America
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Care and Education Policy and the junk food tax brought some hope for people who wanted to solve the obesity problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ the Early Care and Education Policy (ECE) which is intended to help educate public health practitioners‚ child care providers‚ and decision-makers about the current conditions exist in their state and inform future efforts to prevent obesity. Approximately 75% of children younger than 6 years of age participate in some
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Banning Junk Food Advertising In my opinion‚ a ban against junk food advertising shouldn’t be a way to prevent childhood obesity because it is not a solution to have healthier lifestyle. Firstly‚ ban junk food advertising will not get a real and definitive change in the eating habits of children. Rather than a solution it is a great challenge that couldn’t be achieved by means of laws that only focuses on things children shouldn’t be eating‚ instead of focusing on promoting healthy tips. Also
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Restriction on Junk food What is “junk food”? What junk food really is what pretty much goes into the category of snacks‚ and/or fast food. Even cereals can be considered as a sort of “junk food”. You know what junk food is‚ for example: chips of any kind‚ popcorn‚ cookies‚ cake‚ and sweets. Food you would not be healthy to eat a lot of. As you know junk food can be sold at any store or gas station. Eating these bad foods can lead to many health problems throughout your life as you keep eating more
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Don ’t forget to look for the editorial!!!! Or else the paper is meaningless... Junk Food X Obesity in Children There is an alarming rise in childhood obesity throughout the United States‚ making it an epidemic in this country. Over the past thirty years obesity has continued to increase and become a threat to the health of many children. Since the 1970s’ obesity has doubled in children from ages of 2-5‚ and young adults between the ages of 12 and 19. The most significant increase is seen between
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Junk food is not healthy and excessive is good. If kids keep eating junk food then they will get fat. They will keep eating junk food and spend all of their money on junk food. They will end up living alone because no one wants to live with a fat‚ lazy‚ money-spending junk food eater for the rest of their lives. Even though it sounds really mean‚ it is most likely true. Junkfood should be banned from school canteens. If young kids eat too many fattish/sugary foods‚ they could fall ill and possible
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A descriptive study was conducted to assess the knowledge on ill effects of Junk foods among first year B.Sc Nursing students of Vinayaka Mission’s College of Nursing‚ Karaikal. For this study 60 samples were selected by using Non probability convenient sampling technique. The data was collected through semistructured questionnaire. The results shows that out of 60 samples 58.34% were 18 years old‚ 75% were female‚ the maximum 80% students were Hindus‚ 83.3% students were belongs to nuclear family
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At the moment there is a restriction on junk food in schools for example vending machines in your school have changed from chocolate bars and crisps to nutri-grain bars and drinks. Junk food is not served as frequently and you may feel disappointed about this. I think the ban is a good thing since statistics show by the middle of the century‚ 2050‚ two-thirds of children will be overweight or obese if nothing is done. I wouldn’t like to be one of the people in those two-thirds and neither would
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EFFECTS OF EATING JUNK FOODS “A journey to a thousand pounds begins with a single burger.”- Chris O’Brien. Ironic but true‚ right? And this saying doesn’t just apply to a burger‚ but to all foods similar to it -- and we know that these foods are the well-known junk foods. From the word itself‚ ‘junk’‚ we are already given an idea of what and how it is made. Fast foods‚ chips‚ chocolates‚ and candies -- these are examples of junk foods. These foods are greatly enjoyed by everyone‚ but most people
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article‚ Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” we see how food can be very expensive and this makes it harder to eat healthier. This is making Americans obese because people are eating fast food‚ which contains high sodium‚ calories‚ fats‚ and sugar. However‚ according to Bittman‚ it actually is cheaper to buy the food from a store instead of fast food. This homemade food is healthier. In her article‚ McMillan states that low income people are having more trouble eating healthier because fresh food is too
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