Why Junk food should not be sold in schools

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UNHEALTHY EATING AND WEIGHT GAIN

Research has revealed that the increase in the junk foods industry is interrelated with the rapid increase in the obesity pandemic . Junk foods contain high calories and fats and are therefore the sole ingredient in the spread of overweight and obesity . The cause for alarm is that the targeted lots are the pre-school , school going children and adolescents Over the years , the number of school going children becoming overweight and obese has increased two fold because they

easily access the fast foods and junk foods outlets . Overweight is a condition responsible for so many other diseases : these are like : heart diseases , type 2 diabetes high pertension , the gallbladder disease , infertility and weakened immune system , just to mention but a few . The illnesses aside , obese people face social stigma : the society discriminates the victims because people normally believe that they are to blame for their conditions . As such , they do not freely intermingle with the rest for fear of such stigmatization (Cassell , D .2000

Junk foods should therefore not be encouraged in schools because of the health effects that follow and because basically `prevention is better than cure . The junk food culture today has become a social custom and so many school going children therefore just take these foodstuffs to conform to what other people-especially their peers- are doing to identify with them . Such environments that are conducive to weight gain make school going children more vulnerable to obesity . In...