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Junk Food and Study Skills

Saturday March 18, 2006

Vending machines are disappearing from schools in Illinois. According to a recent report from CNN, the Illinois Board of Education has decided that junk food can affect students' study habits in a bad way. The committee took a vote, and now the soda and snack machines are out! At first the plan targeted vending machines in all schools--including high schools. After some debate, however, that plan was replaced by one that affected only students up to the eighth grade. Why? Because vending machines provide crucial revenue to school budgets. Do you think there is a link between your diet and your grades? What if your school board voted to remove vending machines from your school? How would you react?

Teen Poll: Junk Food in School: What Do You Think?

Comments

April 7, 2006 at 2:02 pm
(1) sandy b. says:

junk food good, food stay !!1

February 20, 2007 at 10:20 am
(2) Jenaya says:

Junk food sucks its unhealthy! you get fat from it. eat healthy when you can! But it is ok once in a while, not everyday for lunch!

September 27, 2007 at 12:34 pm
(3) Cara says:

junkfood is gay baby
but it taste good
but its bad
so no there shouldnt be junkfood at school

November 13, 2007 at 5:29 pm
(4) Mareca Williams says:

Junk food really is not good for you i mean it may taste good to you but it is not good for you.Junk food can make you really fat and it can get you going crazy and ,that is not good.So if your reading this and your eating a candy bar or chips put them down NOW aor any other type of junk food put it down.Try somthing new pick up an apple or somthing be heathy.

September 2, 2009 at 4:58 pm
(5) yess says:

I think they should legally ban junk food and fast food places. But of course they wouldn’t because the companies that own them would lose millions *and so would americans* Of course if we ban junk food there might start an underground junk food smuggling business.

But seriously junk food makes us kids/teens hyper and do give you bad study habits. Its an addiction…when your addicted its hard to stop but once you stop it is so easy and you wonder why you ever did it in the first place. But you still have to be careful not to let it lure you back in. Go organic!

September 9, 2009 at 9:56 am
(6) Sam says:

Junk food’s the best thing in my life. If I didn’t have it, I’d kill myself.

November 3, 2009 at 12:32 pm
(7) Aysha Niloufer says:

junk food is tasty ..but bad…esp 4 youg kids…

take care guys….

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