Dear Sir/Madam
I am writing to express my opinion on the event about banning all the unhealthy and fattening snacks in all primary and secondary tuck shops in order to tackle childhood obesity. I am for this policy.
First, as we know, the problem of childhood obesity becomes more and more serious in the past few years and there is an increasing tendency for it. It gradually becomes our major concern and we must find some ways to solve it.
In my opinion, I think the first thing we need to do is to ban the sale of unhealthy and fattening snacks in all primary and secondary schools. Children spend half of the day at school and the tuck shops are the place which can satisfy their stomachs within that six to eight hours. If the snacks sold there are unhealthy and fattening junk food, I am afraid that the children will be addicted to it and get fatter and fatter. Instead, we should make sure that the snacks sold in the tuck shops are all healthy and nutritious. Though the children may find it hard to adapt to the change at the beginning, it can definitely help them to maintain a healthy diet when they get used to eating the healthy snacks as time goes by. Therefore, I think there is a necessity of banning the fattening and unhealthy snacks in all primary and secondary school tuck shops.
Though someone may argue that if the children cannot buy the junk food in the school tuck shops, they will still buy it after school. I admit that some children will still do it but does it mean that we should do nothing and let it go? No, we should not do this. For the children who still buy junk food outside school, the banning of the sale of junk food at school can lower the chance of absorbing the materials which can cause obesity. For the children who are addicted to junk food, this action can change their eating habits. Once they try to start to eat the healthy snacks, habits will be formed gradually and the problem of childhood obesity can be solved.
I hope that all the school tuck shop owners and the government can do the right thing for our younger generations’ healthy.
Yours faithfully
Cherrie Kan