Junk food recently received many news. The US Department of Agriculture has banned the sale of junk food at schools such as cafeterias and vending machines. This prohibition is a politically popular law of health and hungerless children in 2010, which includes improvement of nutritional standards for school meals and breakfast. The ban on selling junk food through school vending machines will affect children in the 2013 - 14 academic year. Instead of selling candy and soda, the school sells healthy snacks such as granola bars, juices and whole grain products. The idea is that children will learn more healthy eating habits at school and make them last a lifetime - and may even take over healthier eating habits to their parents. But some opponents question whether this method is effective or question whether it will result in loss of income at the school.
Should the paper prohibit the sale of junk food in the school cafeteria? As the school was introduced to junk food, the children purchased and began to consume uncontrollable things. Junk food is regarded as unhealthy and has low nutritional value. Tran (2005) noted that the nutritional value of food consumed by children in Australia has gradually declined over the past 30 years. As a way to overcome this problem, it is forbidden to sell junk food at the school canteen, as it is unhealthy, it can cause garbage problems and can cause child behavior problems. Junk food is bad for our health and bad. According to the Health Foundation (2005), most junk foods such as biscuits, candies, hamburgers, instant noodles, soft drinks are said to have low nutritional value. These high fat and high sugar foods can cause childhood obesity. School will face children's weight gain problem
Does school need to allow junk food? Junk food is often defined as "highly processed food and soft drink meal" (Wiles et al., 2009, p. 1). According to the definition, junk food contains artificial food coloring and preservatives such as fast foods, oily foods, snacks, high sugar drinks and so on. Students usually eat snacks between meals. According to McPhail et al. (2011), students' snacking habits increased during the past 20 years. This means that students are taking more junk food.