Children don’t really know what is good or bad for them. Most kids prefer
candy and or junk food than a healthy home cooked meal. The advertisement of
junk food, candies, sodas etc has gotten out of control and something must be
done. Children see these advertisements almost everywhere they go especially in
school. What is sad is that kids are suffering from adult diseases at such
young ages when they shouldn’t .The Council of Better Business Bureaus is
trying to cut down the advertisements. My question is what can the own
companies do to stop this situation? Will they be nice enough to care and do
something?
I do understand that candy can be pleasurable for most of us especially
the young ones but too much candy can increase the sugar level of a child;
which it is not healthy. When I was a child I remember seeing vending machines
just full of candies in each floor and there used to always be a kid buying a
candy or a drink most of the time. They now are agreeing not to advertise these
products in schools and in places where there’s kids. As mentioned on the New
York Times “Obesity among the young has become a health emergency, and the
rates of diabetes and other adult diseases among American children are national
scandal”. This is a very critic situation, kids suffering from diseases which
we mostly see on adult and it’s very upsetting. My opinion is that kids should
be thought to eat healthier because if not the situation can get worst. When
children consume too much junk food or candies not only are they prone to
suffer from a disease but they tend to get very hyper. I think companies do
take advantage of this situation because the more children consume their
products.
Also as mention in the passage critics warn the companies which are
merely attempting to police themselves before a Democratic Congress does it for
them, of coarse these companies won’t want this, that can lower their product vends
much more. Most of these companies want to just sell their products and keep
doing what they’re doing but they are not realizing that this is affecting our
children’s health. I also think that a way of lowering obesity in children is
with the help of their own parents. I think parents are the key to stop this
situation they should educate them and teach them the good foods they need to
eat in order to be healthy. I’ve also seen some commercials against these junk
food advertisements telling the parents “ kids are what they eat” meaning if
they eat healthy they will grow up with no type of complication but if all they
eat is junk the problems will start at an early age. When a child eats healthy
their learning ability can increase, but if not they will feel very lazy and
they will do poorly in their activities. The solution these industries have is
to cut down the advertisements, the less children see it the less they’ll want
it. Overall kids younger than 12 don’t know what they are consuming is good or
bad, so that is why those products should be cut down.
In conclusion, kids don’t know how much this can affect them and their
health. Children don’t deserve to suffer from a disease just because they don’t
know how junk food can affect them. Companies
should start cutting down the advertisements starting in schools and parents
should start educating their kids into eating a right healthy meal.
