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Obesity Should Be Allowed In Schools

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Obesity in the American schooling system has became a part of the "norm" in teen lives. Healthy options are voted on in school and PTO board meeting, but sadly, those healthy options die at the meeting. With cheaper, fattier options getting easier to access, and the healthy options getting harder to reach, it is not a wonder why there is a large percentage of teenagers on the verge of obesity.
America is known for the number of fat people in the population. With a McDonald's on every block, who would even try and fight against this fact? As teens grow and start to learn how to take care of themselves, they get simple jobs at retail or fast food chains to get some sort of cash flow. With these type of jobs, it gets even easier for the teenagers to become obese. In other words, with the teens already at the fast food chain, it is easy to get a "snack" on break and throughout the working shift. Retail, on the other hand, has long hours that take up afternoons and part of the night. With the cheap fast food chains open at these hours, going through the drive-through on the way home becomes a nasty habit to teens. …show more content…

The decision to stop at the fast food chains is the teens' choice, and theirs lone. The society puts out healthy options to the teens and then hopes for the best. Nevertheless, the healthy options that are given to the teens seem unappetizing, and are downright expensive. As teens turn away from these options, the lack of support for the healthy options causes the company to pull out of deals which has the result that makes the healthy options even harder to come by. Trying to come up with a healthy option that will satisfy they teens' appetites and wallets has a dire need to come into effect to help end this teen obesity crisis in

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