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Should schools offer fast food options like McDonald’s or Taco Bell?

Introduction: Fast food meals remain a very risky diet offered to students in schools. Undoubtedly, welcoming fast foods in schools seem to have few supporting views than the opposing arguments. Those who support the idea argue that fast foods save time for the students because they provide on the go services and help them save their constrained budget as well. On the other side of the flip, anti-fast food crusaders think that fast food in schools will lead to several impacts such as obesity among students, poor health. Schools should not offer fast food options like McDonald’s and Taco Bell because these foods cause obesity, risky illnesses, wastage of money in paying medical bills, create disturbing environment for studying and can cause sudden death from poor dietary and excessive intake of high levels of one or two nutrients (Newman et. al., 1573-1580). Additionally, fast foods can lead to poor child development, undermine child’s right to healthy upbringing, bullying in school due to round growth, lack of essential nutrients in meals as well as loss of appetite.

Hook: Fast food meals remain a very risky diet offered to students in schools.

Thesis : Schools should not offer fast food options like McDonald’s and Taco Bell because these foods cause obesity, risky illnesses, wastage of money in paying medical bills, create disturbing environment for studying and can cause sudden death from poor dietary and excessive intake of high levels of one or two nutrients (An and Roland, 131-135). Moreover, fast foods can lead to poor child development, undermine child’s right to healthy upbringing, bullying in school due to round growth, lack of essential nutrients in meals as well as loss of appetite.

Supporting Arguments:

I. Fast food saves time. Students if not allowed to have fast foods in their diet they will be able to forget about incomplete assignment due to time spent taking meals

II. Fast food gives the students opportunity to spend less money. The fast food restaurants give numerous cheaper options of meals that can fit into the budget of the learners (Newman et. al., 1578-1580).

Opposing Arguments

I. Fast foods cause obesity to school children (Newman et. al., 1574-1580).

II. Fast foods tend to have high levels of salt content. High salt content in food cause threat to health of school kids (Dietz, 109-112).

III. Fast foods open avenue for wastage of money paying hospital bills.

IV. Fast foods create unfavorable environment for the learners to study due to frequent ill students (An and Roland, 131-135).

V. Fast foods cause sudden death due to poor diet and excessive intake of one or two nutrients (Dawes, 2-304).

VI. Undermine child rights to healthy upbringing.

VII. Cause bullying due to round growth (Newman et. al., 1579-1580).

VIII. Fast foods lack essential nutrients.

IX. Cause loss of appetite because it lacks appetizer.

X. Conclusion: Schools should not be allowed to introduce fast food meals to the students menu since the opposing views are more than the supporting views.

Work cited

An, Ruopeng, and Roland Sturm. "School and residential neighborhood food environment and diet among California youth." American journal of preventive medicine 42.2 (2012):129- 135.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074937971100849X

Dawes, Laura. Childhood obesity in America. Harvard University Press, 2014: 2-304.

https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p4b5AwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=related:ZTeT571bLskJ:scholar.google.com/&ots=w4QCo_U9_O&sig=sgAmcEejHuod5UV7Xhiv5SsQIxI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Dietz, William H. "The Response of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Obesity Epidemic." Annual review of public health 0 (2015): 102-112.

Newman, Christopher L., Elizabeth Howlett, and Scot Burton. "Implications of fast food restaurant concentration for preschool-aged childhood obesity." Journal of Business Research 67.8 (2014): 1573-1580.