Schools and Companies... Are they really Helping? T2

In our school, the Board of Education took out sweets, or other snacks that had extreme amounts of sugar in it. Many of our individual bags of chips were taken out. This same action is occurring all around the world. Schools decided to start this change due to 17% of Americans between the ages of 2 and 19 are overweight. From each school, soda was the main beverage that was taken out of school districts. Many soda industries were getting very angry at this situation because they were losing money slowly and surely. But because they needed the money, they decided to help as much as possible. So in May of 2006, Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc. Cadbury Schweppes Plc, and the American Beverage Association created guidelines to help the schools nutritious drinks be a go! Later during the school year [January,] Bravo! Brands Inc. started selling flavored milk in the schools vending machines. They were tied in with Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. These businesses just tried to do as much as possible for the school, without loosing money. The Dannon Company Inc., also agreed to supply the school with low-fat yogurts, and smoothies. At the same time, Pepsi is reformulating the oh so popular Doritos, Cheetos and Quaker products. They would be given to schools for the 2007-2008 school year. Pepsi is also giving the schools Frito-Lay’s Flat Earth Fruit/Vegetable crisps. Dole is also, at this moment, testing fruits to see if they can keep them fresh and put them in vending machines. They are trying to do this in four of our fifty states. Will it spread to every state? We’ll have to see. I don’t agree with going through all of this trouble, because in my opinion, it’s a waste. The students might not have the chance to eat and drink unhealthy foods at school, but as soon as they get home, they can pig out on whatever they feel like it, depending on what’s in their house. Students also get very angry at the school system, because for the scholars who are not overweight, the foods that they might like are gone. I do give the companies and schools credit for trying so hard to make sure that all kids are healthy and in shape. But the schools also don’t realize that the heaviness of someone could just be genetics, and that person can’t control that. Also, only 17% of kids in America are overweight, which is not even half! I think that school and companies should wait until there are at least 50% of kids overweight and not just 17%. Schools need to grasp that they are not helping anyone in this situation. Kids can just go home and let themselves do what they want, and eat what they want! This relates to science because of the human body. Being overweight, like I said before, could be because of genetics, and that is a main topic in science. We just learned, in science class, about Gregor Mendel and his discovery of genetics, using pea plants. So, are the schools seeing that there is change going on, or are they just trying to look like they care?

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