Running Head: PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1: A PROBLEM EXISTS Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists Edquenia Coleman ENG 215 Strayer University Professor Whiting 1 PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1: A PROBLEM EXISTS 2 Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists Introduction Frankly, before the research on the second part of the assignment, it had not struck as hard that evil dietary plans in public schools can cause such damage to the young population. The paper to be discussed and constructed is sad, but more precisely it's a horror movie. If this is happening in any school across America, it should stop. The thesis of this paper is collected from the earlier paper will proceed to form precedence, and it states. Therefore, public schools should be required to change the food regulations. They give their students and start offering well prepared, tasty, high-quality meals that contain equal portions of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins. Further, schools should consult a professional nutritionist that will advise them on the best meals to cook and how they should be served. Commonly schools are serving chips, cookies, and fries to a child which, is junk food and neglects essential aspects of the diet such as vegetables and fruits. The paper is focusing on public elementary, middle schools and high school individuals that are considered as children and adolescents. This work will elaborate three problems that are intertwined with this behaviour, and they are obesity, physical and mental degradation. Problem Discussion 1: Obesity The aim of this paper is not to start a blame game but to ignite thoughts into causal relationships that tend to make public schools offer junk food to their students. Obesity is a PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1: A PROBLEM EXISTS 3 condition of the body where the body mass index is above the normal, which is 28. It is a state of being overweight (Hefti, 2009). It is estimated that a third of the children and adolescents in America are obese and although the government has regulated the number of calories that should be in a meal, the students have the option of buying junk from the school. Since the 1980s there has been a significant increase of obese children and adolescents, effects of which can be traced from what they consume within the corridors of learning institutions. Research provided by Patricia Anderson and Kristin Butcher state that the increasing state of obesity among children is caused by the schools lacking funding in many sectors of the institution. In their working paper 11177 NBER, it states that the amount of revenue collected from the sale of junk food within a learning organization can fund many of the activities necessary to run the school. It brings another problem or question: is the government underfunding public schools and making them incapable of sufficiently financing their budget? 2: Physical Degradation Obesity is not the only material effect of eating junk food; research states that a child or adolescent that overeats sugar, fat, sodium, or processed food and pays no attention to foods rich in vitamins and minerals is at a higher risk of developing chronic illnesses. Why? The body of such individual does not have enough vitamins to enable their organization to fight off diseases since their bodies are weak. Further, from this, children that don't eat enough vegetables or fruits are likely to suffer from diseases such as diabetes, kidney stones, bone loss, cancer, and heart diseases. Research has also proven that children and adolescents that are exposed to foods rich in sugar are at risk of their brain changing their chemical composition and in cases where, they PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1: A PROBLEM EXISTS cannot get the sugar they end up being depressed and suffer from withdrawal symptoms. At the University of Montreal where the above test was conducted on mice, it proved that when the sugar diet was removed the mice started suffering from withdrawal symptoms. In humans, the effects are much worse since it causes people not to know how to deal with stress and being addicted to sugar (Lawford, 2013). 3: Mental Degradation Current epidemiological data show that 20% of children and adolescents suffer from mental health issues and over 50% of the problems take flight in the adolescent age bracket (McMurray & Clendon, 2011). The research is blunt and alarming, and it states that the adolescence age is where mental disorders symptoms begin to emerge. “When” they do it is far too late to change the course of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by the year 2020 mental health problems, especially in young people, would be a crucial health problem in the world. Mostly observed in the western nations, the intake of foods such as red meat and beverages rich in sugar and fatty fast foods is closely identified with a lower Intelligence Quotient (IQ) causing decreased mental stability, health and behaviour. In a research conducted on over thirteen thousand students between the ages of six and eighteen proves that intake of junk food has a relationship to mental problems such as violence, and psychiatric distress. The study further confirmed that consumption of confectionary foods such as sweetened soft drinks, sweets, soft drinks, chocolate, fast foods are related to issues that include anxiety, dizziness, and like feelings worthless. Public schools are indeed creating a problem that is slowly eating up the society and creating individuals who cannot be able to handle the day to day hardships. If schools don't change their dietary plans and include more 4 PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1: A PROBLEM EXISTS fruits and vegetables into their meals, the work they are doing teaching kids will go down the drain. Conclusion Checking on the entire analysis, it is true that paper brings to light what the community sees as acceptable, fun, and classy and discourages it since it is the cause of stupidity, illnesses, failure, and death of a society (Robbins, 2011). However, much that would like to be blamed to the schools would also like to shed light on the bad parenting. Arguably, guardians are the ones responsible for giving their children the money to buy lunch at the dining hall since they would like their kids to fit in with all the rest. Schools want to make money so that they can finance essential school activities and sadly also line their pockets in the process. Having checked and analyzed on that, it is wise to be given a solution that it is wrong what is being done to the younger generation. It is good not to do this but do what is recommended by our leaders since of the board are bold by constitutional laws. 5 PERSUASIVE PAPER PART 1: A PROBLEM EXISTS References Robbins, J. (2011). The food revolution: how your diet can assist save your life and then our world. San Francisco, CA: Conari Press. McMurray, A. & Clendon, J. (2011). Community health and wellness: primary health care in the practice. Chatswood, N.S.W: Elsevier Australia. Hefti, E. (2009). The economic aspects and the implications of the obesity. 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