Blog 7
Obesity and Young Children
Blog 7 (week of Oct. 25-31) Directions: ½ French, ½ English; 1 comment per topic (50 words each)
To what extent do public schools in your country encourage childhood obesity ? Justify your opinion and provide specific examples.
Blog 7 (week of Oct. 25-31) Directions: ½ French, ½ English; 1 comment per topic (50 words each)
To what extent do public schools in your country encourage childhood obesity ? Justify your opinion and provide specific examples.
posted by Raison d'Etre @ 12:12 PM
16 Comments:
At 1:03 PM,
Anonymous said…
Les ecoles publiques ne peuvent que un peu pour les enfants obeses. C'est vrai il y a beaucoup des repas mauvais, et les etudiants prennent le petit dejeuner et le dejeuner y. Ces repas sont gros car ils ont beaucoup d'amidon: les pains, les pommes de terre, et les frites. Il n'y a pas assez des fruits et des legumes.
Les enfants doivent manger la nourriture sante, mais ils n'ont pas cette nourriture dans l'ecoles. Aussi, il y a beaucoups des machines pour les bon bons, les chocolats, et les boissons non alcoolisees.
Furthermore, many public schools need more ways for kids to become active and exercise. It is mandated that all students have to have a P.E. course each year and at least one in high school, but that is not enough.
However, I don't think that all of the blame of childhood obesity should be placed on public schools. There are many factors that can be attributed to this. Parents need to be more aware of what their kids are eating and be sure to make dinner time family time so that food isn't consumed in front of the television or while children are playing video games. Parents need to have more of an initiative to prepare better meals for the kids while they are at home rather than giving them fast-food or pre-packaged goods all of the time. Candy consumption should be limited.
Finally, parents need to understand that some children eat food as a means to pacify problems and comfort themselves. This begins when children are infants. The parents need to take responsibility of their kids by nurturing them with love and attention rather than stuffing their mouths with food.
Je trouve le sujet d'enfant obese tres interessant. J'ai ecrit un composition pour mon cours de biologie l'annee dernier dans le sujet--si vous voulez lire mon composition, je peux l'envoyer a vous!
At 10:31 AM,
Anonymous said…
Les ecoles publiques aux etats-unis contribuent beaucoup a l'obesite dans les enfants. La pluparte des ecoles servent la pizza, les frites, la glace et les aliments comme ca.
Because of these foods, children are exposed to more saturated and trans fats as well as ridiculously large portion sizes. Also, due to cuts in public education funding children often no longer take physical education classes in school. Thus, children are more sedentary and are eating unhealthily. Obviously, this leads to increased rates of childhood obesity.
At 12:06 PM,
Anonymous said…
Talking about obesity is not at all easy. We all know that children eat more and more candies and fast foods. In every university restaurant you can eat everyday Pizza, French fries and other calorific food. Everywhere you can buy drinks and sweets in distributors. In NYC you have a fastfood at every corner. How can we fight against obesity with that!
Le problème est aussi dans le fait que les enfants font de moins en moins de sports. Il joue sur leur ordinateur, regarde la télévision toute la journée. De plus les parents ne s’occupent pas toujours de ce que peuvent consommer leurs enfants. Si les parents obligeaient les enfants à manger des fruits et des légumes peut être que le problème d’obésité diminuerait.
At 8:18 AM,
Anonymous said…
Une autre chose aussi... les ecoles publiques ne sont pas les seuls choses responsable pour l'epidemie d'obesite des enfants. Les parents sont coupable aussi. Les parents doivent controler et encourager leurs enfants a manger et a faire de l'exercise. Seulment les parents peuvent arreter l'epidemie d'obesite.
At 9:54 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hello everybody,
I think that public schools won't should encourage chidhood obesity. The parent's child are the best to know how to educate your chidren. Their children should known how to look after themselves. It's necessary for them to know it.
At 11:35 AM,
Anonymous said…
Un problème avec l’obesité d’enfants est que les ecoles préparent la nourriture. C’est facile cuisiner le pizza pour 500 étudiants, mais il est impossible préparer légumes et fruits et nourriture saine pour 500 étudiants. Aussi, c’est très chere! Les parents doivent préparer la nourriture pour leurs enfants parce qu’ils peuvent donner leurs enfants le meillure nourriture. The parents don’t always do a good job of feeding their children, though, which is why the schools started to provide lunches. Often young children will come to school without eating breakfast, for example, so the schools now must provide breakfast before school starts so that the children aren’t hungry all day. Here’s my brilliant idea! Let’s make the parents perfect, loving people who will take care of their children and provide them with both healthy and fun food so that the schools don’t have to bother with this issue and can just teach the children!
At 6:55 PM,
Anonymous said…
Les écoles publiques encouragent l'obésité par vendre Coca-Cola et des bonbons comme Snickers et Skittles (dans mon lycée, on vends ces choses). Tout la nourriture est fast food ou d'autre insalubre. Our health classes are also not taken seriously. When children could be taught to eat better things and to lead a healthy life style, they are let down by one of the only institutions that could potentially make all of the difference.
At 10:03 PM,
Anonymous said…
Public schools encourage childhood obesity. Both my middle school and high school had vending machines with soda and candy. Like Vincent said, everyone seemed to always be carrying around a bag of Skittles. À mon lycée, nous avions un magasin de sucrerie en plus des options grosses notre cafétéria a offert à nous. En outre, pour l'éducation physique, nous devions seulement avoir un an de l'éducation physique. Aussi, je crois que les parents ont besoin d'enseigner leurs enfants plus que les écoles.
At 10:51 PM,
Anonymous said…
Des ecoles maintenant ont des regimes pour les eleves qui mange au cafeteria. Il y a des choses qui sont bonnes pour la sante, et moins des choses comme du gateau, avec beaucoup de sucre. On doit mange des legumes, ou des fruits, avec le plat principal.
The foods are healthier than before, with less sodium, and less fat - but not fewer calories. There are children who's only full meal is at school, so they need to get the calories there. Children who are from low-income families, who recieve free or reduced-cost lunch are required to get a balanced meal each time.
At 11:04 PM,
Anonymous said…
Aujourd’hui l’obésité des enfants devient un problème de plus en plus sérieux.
Dans mon pays, il y a des enfants obèses mais le problème est moins grave que dans les pays industrialises comme les USA et la France.En plus, les enfants ne vont pas a la cantine le midi dans les écoles publiques comme ici aux USA.Il rentrent en général manger a la maison et ont souvent des repas équilibres
However in front of the private and public school, people sale some food that are not healthy such are candies and more.That is why kids eat whatever outside of the meal they get at home.For that, the school doesn’t do anything to control what the kids eat outside of the school.
I think that the school should control what the kids buy at school because some food at school are not clean or healthy and that can get the kids sick or obese.
At 11:57 PM,
Anonymous said…
Aux Etats-Unis, je pense que notre societe dans l'ensemble encourage l'obesite, et cette tendence est effectuee dans les ecoles publiques. Pas seulement il y a des distributeurs automatiques pour des soudes et des casse-croûte malsains dans les ecoles, mais les parts de nourriture dans le cafeteria sont tres tres grands. In addition, there is a pervasive false sense of "forbidden-ness" associated with sweets, so that when children who might not have constant access to such foods are given the opportunity to partake, they gorge themselves, or otherwise sneak and consume more unhealthy food than they would if the sweets were not seen as so "off limits." There is a healthy balance that both our society and our schools are missing.
At 12:17 PM,
Anonymous said…
Personally I don’t think that public schools in France encourage childhood obesity. Indeed the menus aren’t generally prepared by cooks in the school but by companies like Sodhexo and each menu is checked by a dietetician. Finally it depends on companies. I know this well because my father works in the institutional catering. On the other hand that changes with the university restaurants.
Je crois plutôt que l’obésité enfantine est causée par les grandes marques alimentaires, les chaînes de restauration rapide. Alors si les parents ne se soucient pas du bon équilibre alimentaire et que les enfants ne font pas de sport, préférant la télévision et la console, il y aura de plus en plus d’enfants obèses. Pour finir, je pense également que pour les familles à faible revenu, c’est beaucoup plus difficile de manger équilibré et des produits de bonne qualité.
At 12:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
In my opinion obesity is the first reason of death in America, France or England. During the 10 last years the percentage of overweight people increase dramatically in developped countries. At Utt we can suscribe to sport activities like gym or basketball, football.
I think that a balanced and varied food are helpful for health. At university we can eat "bio" food which maintain a good order in the human organism.
Je crois que beaucoup de mesures ont ete prises en France pour reduire la population d'enfants obeses. Dans les cantines en France on peut trouver de la nourriture "bio" qui a ete subventionne par l'etat. On y retrouve aussi des activites de sport specifiques permettant à tous les enfants de perdre un peu de poids. Mais en Afrique on a pas ce genre de probleme d'obesite,c'est plutot le contraire.
At 12:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
in france, to fight against obesity, the government decided to forbid food distributors in schools. i think it was a interessant idea but not the solution of the problem. we have to educate children about good and bad food. the idea is not to forbid candies, but to make understand children that they have to pay attention on what they eat.
je pense qu'il serait plus intelligent de remplacer les produits des distributeurs par des produits plus sains, ça existe avec des fruits je crois. interdire sans expliquer est le meilleur moyen de faire manger aux enfants encore plus de cochonneries que ce qu'ils auraient acheté dans les disributeurs, surtout si on rajoute le role de la publicité en plus.
At 7:24 AM,
Anonymous said…
During childhood, I think it is important for parents to have a control about the feed of their children : at school, cantine has generally a bad taste but we eat " balanced". So, on my mind,if a child becomes fat, it is his parents who have to look after him. En effet, lui voudra manger quelque chose de sucré, des bonbons=, des gateaux et surtout pas de légumes ou encore de fruits. Il faudra l'y forcer. Il est vrai qu'à la cantinee, personne ne vous force mais il y a des repas différents tous les jours ce qui équilibre la façon de manger.
At 11:54 AM,
Anonymous said…
school food is cheap food, with a lot of fat in. And children are not obliged to take vegetables ( whiwh are ugly to eat) and otfen take french fries and pizza. Their taste are not as ugly as the vegetables.
Few times ago their were no food education.
La diétique à l'ecole est vraiment une chose nouvelles, qui est une réponse à l'obésité ainsi c'est affolant de savoir que 1/8 de la population est en surpoids !!!
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