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    The document discusses whether bans on junk food in schools are effective. It notes that while junk food is reduced in schools, consumption does not decrease outside of school. The bans also don't prevent consumption of sugary drinks. Prohibiting junk food in schools is only part of addressing unhealthy eating habits, and broader measures are needed like regulations and educating people to make voluntary healthy choices.

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    Are junk food bans in schools effective?

    Denisse Uscanga 172835


    Daniel Covarrubias 172899
    Mariano Lugo 167159

    In many places junk food has a high level of consumption, which affects people in
    their usual diet and causes them various diseases, like diabetes or obesity. In
    children, it is dangerous for their development, and the excess of sugars and
    carbohydrates can badly influence their health. In 2018, just over a fifth (22%) of girls
    and boys under 5 years of age are at risk of being overweight, (INEGI, 2018).

    Currently, various measures have been taken to regulate and reduce the
    consumption of junk food in the child population, such as putting labels on products
    with high levels of fat and sugar, together with the prohibition of the purchase and
    sale of this type of food in school.

    Even though the junk food is reduced at schools, this does not reduce its
    consumption outside of school since this type of product continues to be consumed
    in their social life and at home as part of their daily diet.
    Still, about 85% of students, regardless of what kind of policy their schools had,
    drank sugary drinks each week, according to the study published in the Archives of
    Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

    The consumption of junk food and drinks does not decrease despite being prohibited
    in schools since children have these products at their disposal at home, as well as
    being influenced by media areas such as advertising.

    Has been reported that 67% of parents of children between 6 and 16 years old
    believe that the food they sell in schools is really unhealthy, and they believe that the
    consumption of junk food would decrease if schools prohibited its sale, however as
    mentioned above, this is only a part of the solution process and not the whole key
    itself.

    On the other hand, by limiting the consumption of sugars already developed over
    time, it´s prohibition has developed an absence of soda, thus causing the students
    turn to other sugar-sweetened beverages such as energy, sports drinks or juices that
    are available at school, along with the fact that between 26% and 33% of the
    students declared consumed them daily.
    In Mexico, the stamps of excesses of sugars, sodium, carbohydrates, among others,
    were implemented by the government a few years ago, and despite the fact that the
    products today contain labels warning about their excesses, parents ave decided not
    to stop consuming them, which has had repercussions on the children and when
    they continue to the same example, so in the school store they do not mind seeing
    that the products they consume have warning stamps.

    Despite how well-intentioned the restriction measures in schools on the sale and
    consumption of junk food are, this is only the beginning of a long process of
    improvement in our eating habits, since a radical change is not only needed in
    school, but also is required at home, intervention in the regulation of laws,
    commercials and advertising, but in the same way it is vital and of greater
    importance to be aware of the damage to our health and to be the ones who regulate
    what we consume at will and not by restriction.

    Regardless of having healthy eating in schools through junk food restrictions, it is


    important to be aware that this is only part of the complete process, since other
    factors such as home education, regulation of laws to guide the development of
    people's voluntary choice to eat healthy.
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    Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (2020). Prevalencia de Obesidad,


    Hipertensión y Diabetes para los Municipios de México 2018. Estimación para Áreas
    Pequeñas.
    https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/investigacion/pohd/2018/doc/a_peq_2018_nota
    _me t.pdf

    INEGI. (2020). ESTADÍSTICAS A PROPÓSITO DEL DÍA MUNDIAL CONTRA LA


    OBESIDAD. 04/07/2022, de INEGI Sitio web:
    https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/saladeprensa/aproposito/2020/EAP_Obesidad2
    0.pdf

    Mathieu Tourliere. (2013). El 81% de los padres de familia a favor de prohibir la


    comida chatarra en escuelas. 04/07/2022, de PROCESO Sitio web:
    https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2013/8/22/el-81-de-los-padres-de-familia-favo
    r-de-prohibir-la-comida-chatarra-en-escuelas-122484.html

    Genevra Pittman. (2011). Prohibir las gaseosas en escuelas no reduce su consumo:


    estudio. 04/07/2022, de REUTERS Sitio web:
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    HGE20111108

    EXPANSIÓN. (2011). ¿SON EFICACES LAS PROHIBICIONES DE REFRESCOS


    EN LAS ESCUELAS?. 04/07/2022, de EXPANSIÓN Sitio web:
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    n-las-escuelas?_amp=true

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