The Killing of Our Youth

epidemic of obesity is the destruction of our youth in today's society. According to an article in Time Magazine, children and adolescents who are overweight and obese is a tenfold increase your chances of becoming obese adults. This fact alone is amazing enough to increase the amount of physical education and sport options that are available. Where the goal is to be set up to resolve the severe epidemic of obesity we are experiencing at this moment?

I believe that the combination of media, the availability of fast foods, under-education of our society in nutrition and health, as well as cutting sports from middle and high school. The media has brought wide spread attention to this problem, but it does not seem like the school or the community implement the right changes. Should we be placing all the blame on fast food companies, or we, as citizens, rather than taking steps to make sure we are educated. Obtaining knowledge about nutrition and exercise allows us to healthy food choices.

media and fast food restaurants are part of the blame. This is very evident in the amount of commercials for fast food you will see when looking at almost every television program. Although it does not help the obesity epidemic, fast food companies are just companies trying to make money as a buyer. I believe that people who are too blame most educational institutions. If children and adults were educated in the way food is built on fast food restaurants in relation to food prepared at home, there will be no change. Each year, more teaching positions are cut. In many cases, it is a physical education or health status.

physical education and health are still one of the first areas that were looked at when schools have to cut money from the budget. What does that say about priorities in our country? She says that the health of our young people is at the bottom of the list of our schools. It is time to start setting up our school health of their students at the top of their list, even if it is not good for the bottom line. Having a good bill of health is priceless.

Without their health, our young people will be able to take advantage of all the math and English learning.