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Nowadays, many schools find it profitable to sell unhealthy food and sugary drinks to students during lunch breaks. Is this a positive or negative development?

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Recently, some institutions make more money by selling junk foods to student during their afternoon break. In my opinion, I believe that the practice of selling unhealthy
food
 and sugary drinks to
student
Suggestion
students
 by
school
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the school
 is a negative development with the following reasons.
To begin
 with, one reason I believe that school selling unhealthy
food
 to pupil is a negative development is that it leads to excess body fat. Science proves that
food
 containing high sugary content and consumed daily may have a harmful impact on one’s
health
, the result of
this
 in a growing child’s system is obesity.
Furthermore
, in today’s society, there's an "obesity epidemic" and school management
want
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wants
 to just hand scholar junk
food
 right in front of their faces when these kids hardly get enough exercise is questionable. A recent research by UNICEF revealed that 65% of adults are currently battling with excessive weight which could be the result of diets consumed in childhood stage.
Consequently
, being overweight plays an important role in
human’s
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human
 emotion
such
 as depression and an obese child may be traumatized owing to constant taunt from
fellow peer group
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the fellow peer group
. Another point to consider, colleges using sugar-sweetened beverages as a lucrative mean to an end are impacting negatively to the student’s future
health
. It can be observed from public
health
 record that soft drinks and processed
food
 eaten
overtime
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over time
 usually bring about chronic diseases
which unfortunately
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which, unfortunately
, affect the
health
 care cost of a country that rely on PAYE Tax for medical insurance.
For instance
, WHO reveal a study that was carried out on the
health
 sector of
USA
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the USA
 and 50% of
treatment
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the treatment
 were mostly
link
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linked
 to obesity-related
comorbidity
. These and many more are the contributing factors to why unhealthy and junk
food
 sold or given during lunch to
student
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students
the student
a student
 are harmful. Conclusively, based on the above reasons, I believe that it is a negative development why schools find it profitable to sell snacks with high calories to pupil.
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