The topic I chose to research has to do with different
resolutions the government can implement in order to decrease obesity rates for
future generations such as adding food education to our school curriculum and
enacting sin tax to junk and processed foods. My goal to achieve while
researching this topic is to compare out country to others and see where our
obesity problem stems. Why is obesity such a big thing in our country? What are
other countries doing to promote public health and why aren't we doing the same
to ensure that our citizens are healthy?
In my research paper I have about 10 paragraphs talking
about food education alone and how food education needs to be implemented to
our curriculum so that kids are aware of the effects that processed foods can
do to your body. I also discussed how home economics should be a part of the
curriculum as well so that kids learn how to cook rather than relying on fast
food. In the meantime, I've just been researching sin tax on junk foods and how
it works in different countries so that I'm prepared to write the next section
of my paper. Thankfully I haven’t hit any roadblocks for this paper. For
the most part, everything has just been a breeze and I’m surprisingly having a
fun time researching and comparing how America differs from other countries. It’s
extremely interesting.
My question to you is: what do you think the government
should do in order to promote public health?
In general I like the government to stay out of how I choose to live my life. I also believe that people would make much better decisions if they were informed on the issue. Last year, I did a really big Sex Ed project in AP English. I wrote a lot about how the education system deals with sex and I found that the places where there are really good sex ed programs have the least teen pregnancies and abortions, and the places with the worst programs had the most. In the Netherlands, they start teaching how to deal with this at a really young age, and they have one of the lowest teen pregnancy rates in the world. I'm thinking the same thing can be applied to food. The trouble is, though, that we have to protect ourselves from the government, which subsidizes these unhealthy practices.
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