Blog Entry# 13

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.