Blog #5: Responding to "Bottlers Agree..." (in the Call Lab/homework)
Who do you agree with? The schools that have basically "outlawed" the soft drinks or the 16-year-old high school student who wrote the "Letter to the Editor?"
I agree with the idea to remove the sugar soda in the school. One of the problem about children's overweight is that they can buy everyday that kind of drinks in the school. Imaging the idea to drink everyday this amount of sugar. However, this solution is not enough in my opinion because children can still buy others kinds of drinks, for example energetic drinks. I think it's not objective the position of school student because the purpose of this kind of law it is not to keep off your freedom. The government and the community have taken care their people.
I think that the government should legislate about what kind of characterist should have the food that we eat. However, that doesn't mean that the government, without any reason, can ban some food.
In my opinion I agree with 16-years-old high school because they have the right to choose what they want to drink.Moreover, we can not judge what they should drink or should not ;however, we can give their knowledge and information about drinking soda and sugary drinks .For example, drinking soda and sugary drink affect their body and also can cause much diseases such as diabetes, obesity,hypertensive and other diseases. The reasons why we should give them knowledge because they will understand that soda and sugary drinks harm their body and maybe they will avoid drinking it. Although you remove it from school,children can consume it at home .
Do you think the soda manufacturers should be required to place the danger of their product on the label, just as the cigarette manufacturers are required to do?
I agree with the idea to take care about students, but I think it is not the main problem. If you are selling 3 bottles of juice 100% natural but at home they drink 6 more of coke, your magnificent idea fail. The principal problem for children diet is their education at home about food. One solution may be when the school give to the parents the list of supplies that the children is going to use during the year, they can give the parents a diet for growing children. It is possible for children to adapt them self to eat balance and healthy. Even thought goverment work on children diet at school, main problem is not only school so the idea is not enough to be a completly solution.
Hi Omar, the video person's name is Dwain Weston, an Australian, is one of the best and most experienced base-jumpers in the world. You can visit this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwain_Weston , to know more about him. Thanks for your interest. Lena
I don't agree with any of these ideas. In my opinion, the schools should band soft drinks in the elementary and middle schools. As a result, most of the students will get used to drink juice milk instead of the soda drink. In addition, the parents has to contribute at home to prevent these soft drinks, too. On the other hand, the soft drink should not be removed in the high school because in this period of students' lives, they assume to take their own decisions in their life. Also, they can do whatever they want , not just drinking the soda even if it was done illegal.
I totally agree with the school should ban the soft drinks in order to take care for their students. As we know there are many kinds of harm when you drink soft drinks such as, overweight, hypertensive, and others. Even though the school ban the soft drinks, the children can buy it outside the school. Therefore, the school should meet the parents and find the solution. The school and the parents should work together to protect their children by provide them a good information and show them how the soft drinks is harm.
Does the soft drink cause obesity? This is just anecdotal evidence, but I have a cousin who drinks at least one can of Coke a day and she's as thin as a rail! Also, what about candy? Cookies? Birthday cake? Pizza? Pasta? Breakfast cereal? Should they all be banned from the students' diets?
I agree with the student because of two reasons. One, soft drinks cause some diseases, such as liver damage, diabetes, and heart disease. The other, they cause the biggest problem in the world which is obesity. However, a little bit of soft drinks is not a problem for our bodies, I believe.
I agree with this decision to ban buying soft drinks in schools. If they stopped sale soft drinks in schools they will decrease the calories that the student getting it in their daily life. They aren’t aware how the soft drinks are harmful. We can’t control them all they day, but in the school we do, so if they didn’t drink it at school for seven to eight hours in five days a week it sounds great and their chance to be addicted will decrease. On the other hand, if they drink it during the day and night they are going to be addicted, because it have high percentage of caffeine. As soon as the body got once or twice bottle of caffeine it will be starting to need more and this’s very dangerous and unhealthy on teenager’s body.
I agree with schools banning sweetened soft drinks even though it is against the law. Schools should be a controlled environment for children. Obesity is a problem that needs to be taken care of at a really young age. Serving juice and bottled water will make kids a lot healthier and their weight will be 20 pounds less than they would be in high school if soft drinks were not banned.
I agree with high school student. Because it's person's right, they can choose what they want to drink. Furthermore, soft drinks are not only reason to be an obesity. Maybe if schools are banned soft drinks, it can be helpful. However, children still have chance to drink soft drinks. Moreover, it's their choice to be an obesity. The government or schools shouldn't control their right.
some of mature students have known about the impacts of soft drinks ,however ,most teenagers still flow the taste that they like no matter what can affect their health . I disagree with the 16 year-old because she does not care about her body . she said,"my soda ." which means she will drink it in school and she feels that she has a right to choose . In my opinion , parent and school governor are responsible of all children health .
If a 16-year old is not entrusted to make a decision about drinking a soft drink, how could they ever be faced with more difficult decisions in their life?
Despite that I liked a 16-year-old student's response, I agree with the idea to ban soft drinks in elementary, middle, and high schools. On one hand, students who are in elementary and middle schools are not old enough to make right choices in their lives.On the other hand, some student in high school can make a good choices in their lives but others can't. I understand the teenagers in the United States when they don't like the idea of banning soft drinks from schools now and thats what I liked about a 16-year-old student's response.I don't like that the state give people who are in high school the right to vote and they don't want to give them the right to choose their lives style. I don't blame USA students who are in high school if they get angry from the decision of banning soft drinks from schools because they think that the state consider them not old enough to make a good choices in their lifestyle but at the same time the state consider them old enough to make a good choice to vote.First,In my opinion, if the state wants the students to accept the idea of banning soft drinks from school now, the state has to change its law about considering the students who are in high school to be old enough to make a good decisions in some situation such as voting.Second, I think that if schools ban soft drinks, this decision will help the students when they grow up to think about the effects of soft drinks on their bodies before they drink. For instance, as the tobacco, because tobacco is not permit in schools, students know about its effects on their bodies if they smoke, so when they become adults, a lot of them will not smoke because they grow up with the idea that smoking is harmful for their bodies.The same with soft drinks, students should have the idea that soft drinks is not good for their health and I believe that it is one of the schools and parents responsibility to promote this idea on the students and children minds.
Voting age in the US is 18. Military service also begins at 18 (and possibly 17). Soda drinking age?
Are you saying that if the school wants to ban soft drinks for high school students that the government should raise the voting age? I'm not clear.
Your point about tobacco is interesting. Don't you think that many people start smoking BECAUSE it's not allowed? Same with drinking alcohol? See my response to Sultan.
In your last sentence you mention the PARENTS. Almost nobody has talked about the PARENTS' role in childhood obesity!
Well, I enjoyed reading this COMPREHENSIVE discussion ;)
I think the best thing that the beverage market (PepsiCo Inc., Coca-Cola, and Cadbury Schweppes) and elementary schools could agree was that policy where they banned the sweetened drinks from those schools. As we know, these kind of drinking like Pepsi and Cokes are unhealthy beverage that lead big problems in our society as the obesity is. Therefore, every school and every parent must avoid huge amounts of sugar at early ages in children. That agreement resulted that one child reached high school with 20 pounds less than he would have weighed with those kind of drinking at elementary schools.
So if I eat a cookie a day will that also be 20 pounds in the future? And an ice-cream? 20 more? And a chocolate bar? 20 more? I mean, does weight actually work like that or do we burn what we eat for fuel?
I agree with the schools which have basically outlawed softdrinks frop their schools.In fact, to consume a big quantity of soft drinks can have a negative impact on people's health. In the schols it is not possible to control students`consummation of soft drinks because of the vending machines.Due to this problem to remove all these vending machines seems to be the best solution for avoiding some health problems in a country where the diabetes rate is higher than most of the countries
What about reducing the size of the can, as Sultan has suggested? Also, do we really think that the students will just buy coke after coke after coke? And if so, isn't this the parents' responsibility to know how much money they are sending with their children? Here's an idea: Perhaps the vending machine could be located in the lunchroom and then locked after lunch.
Finally, if the diabetes problem is so out-of-control, shouldn't the government basically ban the sale of soft drinks everywhere?
I agree with the schools with basicly outlawed softdrinks. Consuming a large quantity of soft drinks is not healthy. Indeed, students at school don't have their parents with to tell them "don't drink it too much" and want to drink it every day. That isn't good. That's why I agree with them.
Based on my experience, i disagree for banning the soft drinks in school because teenagers' desire prefer anything has banned. i think there are many ways to avoid that like sell it with small size so the school will be in middle.sell what they want but not as much as they need.
You are the first person to bring up this very important general idea: Things that are forbidden to us become even more desirable; in other words, we often want what we're not allowed to have!
In this case, perhaps by not allowing soft drinks in the school we are creating even more desire for them. It's certainly an interesting theory.
Your compromise on the issue is to keep the drinks in the school but to sell them in a smaller size. That's also an interesting thought.
I agree with the school should have basically "outlawed" the soft drinks, because most of the students are children or teenagers who belong to limited behavior people, parents and school are responsible for them. Although students desire to have the freedom of what they can drink, they prefer soft drinks, obviously soft drinks are not healthy enough for them, so school should take charge with responsibility for reducing the chance that students drink soft drinks, they should have basically "outlawed" soft drinks.
I agree with the schools that have basically "outlawed" the soft drinks. As we all know ,children like to eat or drink which taste good ,they don't care about how healthy is. Moreover , most children don't know how to control themselves which means if they know there have some place in school can buy coke ,they will buy it every time after class or exercise. In my opinion , school have to stop sell soda and teach student how bad is it .
I agree with the idea to remove the sugar soda in the school. One of the problem about children's overweight is that they can buy everyday that kind of drinks in the school. Imaging the idea to drink everyday this amount of sugar. However, this solution is not enough in my opinion because children can still buy others kinds of drinks, for example energetic drinks. I think it's not objective the position of school student because the purpose of this kind of law it is not to keep off your freedom. The government and the community have taken care their people.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the last line you wrote above, do you think it is the government's job to decide what I can or cannot eat?
DeleteI think that the government should legislate about what kind of characterist should have the food that we eat. However, that doesn't mean that the government, without any reason, can ban some food.
DeleteIn my opinion
ReplyDeleteI agree with 16-years-old high school because they have the right to choose what they want to drink.Moreover, we can not judge what they should drink or should not ;however, we can give their knowledge and information about drinking soda and sugary drinks .For example, drinking soda and sugary drink affect their body and also can cause much diseases such as diabetes, obesity,hypertensive and other diseases. The reasons why we should give them knowledge because they will understand that soda and sugary drinks harm their body and maybe they will avoid drinking it. Although you remove it from school,children can consume it at home .
Do you think the soda manufacturers should be required to place the danger of their product on the label, just as the cigarette manufacturers are required to do?
DeleteI agree with the idea to take care about students, but I think it is not the main problem. If you are selling 3 bottles of juice 100% natural but at home they drink 6 more of coke, your magnificent idea fail. The principal problem for children diet is their education at home about food. One solution may be when the school give to the parents the list of supplies that the children is going to use during the year, they can give the parents a diet for growing children. It is possible for children to adapt them self to eat balance and healthy. Even thought goverment work on children diet at school, main problem is not only school so the idea is not enough to be a completly solution.
ReplyDeleteSo should the soda machines stay or be removed from the schools?
DeleteHi Omar, the video person's name is Dwain Weston, an Australian, is one of the best and most experienced base-jumpers in the world. You can visit this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwain_Weston , to know more about him. Thanks for your interest.
DeleteLena
Soda machine should stay because they are not the problem. It is better to buy one can of soda at school than buy one juice and 6 sodas at home.
DeleteI don't agree with any of these ideas. In my opinion, the schools should band soft drinks in the elementary and middle schools. As a result, most of the students will get used to drink juice milk instead of the soda drink. In addition, the parents has to contribute at home to prevent these soft drinks, too. On the other hand, the soft drink should not be removed in the high school because in this period of students' lives, they assume to take their own decisions in their life. Also, they can do whatever they want , not just drinking the soda even if it was done illegal.
ReplyDeleteSo then you agree with the teenage boy who wrote the letter to the editor, right?
DeleteNo, i agree with my opinion. :D
DeleteNot all of the schools should band the soft drinks.
DeleteI totally agree with the school should ban the soft drinks in order to take care for their students. As we know there are many kinds of harm when you drink soft drinks such as, overweight, hypertensive, and others. Even though the school ban the soft drinks, the children can buy it outside the school. Therefore, the school should meet the parents and find the solution. The school and the parents should work together to protect their children by provide them a good information and show them how the soft drinks is harm.
ReplyDeleteDoes the soft drink cause obesity? This is just anecdotal evidence, but I have a cousin who drinks at least one can of Coke a day and she's as thin as a rail! Also, what about candy? Cookies? Birthday cake? Pizza? Pasta? Breakfast cereal? Should they all be banned from the students' diets?
DeleteI agree with the student because of two reasons. One, soft drinks cause some diseases, such as liver damage, diabetes, and heart disease. The other, they cause the biggest problem in the world which is obesity. However, a little bit of soft drinks is not a problem for our bodies, I believe.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'd like to see the solid evidence that soft drinks directly cause liver damage, diabetes, and heart disease.
DeleteSecond, you cannot agree with the student with the reasons you give here!
I agree with this decision to ban buying soft drinks in schools. If they stopped sale soft drinks in schools they will decrease the calories that the student getting it in their daily life. They aren’t aware how the soft drinks are harmful. We can’t control them all they day, but in the school we do, so if they didn’t drink it at school for seven to eight hours in five days a week it sounds great and their chance to be addicted will decrease. On the other hand, if they drink it during the day and night they are going to be addicted, because it have high percentage of caffeine. As soon as the body got once or twice bottle of caffeine it will be starting to need more and this’s very dangerous and unhealthy on teenager’s body.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point.
DeleteIs caffeine addictive? I didn't know that.
I agree with schools banning sweetened soft drinks even though it is against the law. Schools should be a controlled environment for children. Obesity is a problem that needs to be taken care of at a really young age. Serving juice and bottled water will make kids a lot healthier and their weight will be 20 pounds less than they would be in high school if soft drinks were not banned.
ReplyDeleteIt's not against the law. Schools can decide which products to bring in.
DeleteJuice also has a lot of calories.
As far as their weight being 20 pounds less, how can this be proven?
I agree with high school student. Because it's person's right, they can choose what they want to drink. Furthermore, soft drinks are not only reason to be an obesity. Maybe if schools are banned soft drinks, it can be helpful. However, children still have chance to drink soft drinks. Moreover, it's their choice to be an obesity. The government or schools shouldn't control their right.
ReplyDeleteit's their choice to be obese (adj.).
DeleteFinally! A voice for personal choice and freedom!
some of mature students have known about the impacts of soft drinks ,however ,most teenagers still flow the taste that they like no matter what can affect their health . I disagree with the 16 year-old because she does not care about her body . she said,"my soda ." which means she will drink it in school and she feels that she has a right to choose . In my opinion , parent and school governor are responsible of all children health .
ReplyDeleteIf a 16-year old is not entrusted to make a decision about drinking a soft drink, how could they ever be faced with more difficult decisions in their life?
Deletein this age usually teenager have done many mistakes …. even parent can not give them trust .
DeleteDespite that I liked a 16-year-old student's response, I agree with the idea to ban soft drinks in elementary, middle, and high schools. On one hand, students who are in elementary and middle schools are not old enough to make right choices in their lives.On the other hand, some student in high school can make a good choices in their lives but others can't. I understand the teenagers in the United States when they don't like the idea of banning soft drinks from schools now and thats what I liked about a 16-year-old student's response.I don't like that the state give people who are in high school the right to vote and they don't want to give them the right to choose their lives style. I don't blame USA students who are in high school if they get angry from the decision of banning soft drinks from schools because they think that the state consider them not old enough to make a good choices in their lifestyle but at the same time the state consider them old enough to make a good choice to vote.First,In my opinion, if the state wants the students to accept the idea of banning soft drinks from school now, the state has to change its law about considering the students who are in high school to be old enough to make a good decisions in some situation such as voting.Second, I think that if schools ban soft drinks, this decision will help the students when they grow up to think about the effects of soft drinks on their bodies before they drink. For instance, as the tobacco, because tobacco is not permit in schools, students know about its effects on their bodies if they smoke, so when they become adults, a lot of them will not smoke because they grow up with the idea that smoking is harmful for their bodies.The same with soft drinks, students should have the idea that soft drinks is not good for their health and I believe that it is one of the schools and parents responsibility to promote this idea on the students and children minds.
ReplyDeleteVoting age in the US is 18.
DeleteMilitary service also begins at 18 (and possibly 17).
Soda drinking age?
Are you saying that if the school wants to ban soft drinks for high school students that the government should raise the voting age? I'm not clear.
Your point about tobacco is interesting. Don't you think that many people start smoking BECAUSE it's not allowed? Same with drinking alcohol? See my response to Sultan.
In your last sentence you mention the PARENTS. Almost nobody has talked about the PARENTS' role in childhood obesity!
Well, I enjoyed reading this COMPREHENSIVE discussion ;)
I think the best thing that the beverage market (PepsiCo Inc., Coca-Cola, and Cadbury Schweppes) and elementary schools could agree was that policy where they banned the sweetened drinks from those schools. As we know, these kind of drinking like Pepsi and Cokes are unhealthy beverage that lead big problems in our society as the obesity is. Therefore, every school and every parent must avoid huge amounts of sugar at early ages in children. That agreement resulted that one child reached high school with 20 pounds less than he would have weighed with those kind of drinking at elementary schools.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your last sentence, I want you to really think about the idea that one coke a day will cause a 20 pound weight gain. Is this logical to you?
DeleteIt is not only one coke a day, it is one coke a day for years. That would be 20 pounds in the future.
DeleteSo if I eat a cookie a day will that also be 20 pounds in the future? And an ice-cream? 20 more? And a chocolate bar? 20 more? I mean, does weight actually work like that or do we burn what we eat for fuel?
DeleteI agree with the schools which have basically outlawed softdrinks frop their schools.In fact, to consume a big quantity of soft drinks can have a negative impact on people's health. In the schols it is not possible to control students`consummation of soft drinks because of the vending machines.Due to this problem to remove all these vending machines seems to be the best solution for avoiding some health problems in a country where the diabetes rate is higher than most of the countries
ReplyDeleteWhat about reducing the size of the can, as Sultan has suggested? Also, do we really think that the students will just buy coke after coke after coke? And if so, isn't this the parents' responsibility to know how much money they are sending with their children? Here's an idea: Perhaps the vending machine could be located in the lunchroom and then locked after lunch.
DeleteFinally, if the diabetes problem is so out-of-control, shouldn't the government basically ban the sale of soft drinks everywhere?
I agree with the schools with basicly outlawed softdrinks. Consuming a large quantity of soft drinks is not healthy. Indeed, students at school don't have their parents with to tell them "don't drink it too much" and want to drink it every day. That isn't good. That's why I agree with them.
ReplyDeleteIf quantity is the issue and not the drink itself, couldn't we come up with a way to control the quantity rather than forbid the entire substance?
DeleteBased on my experience, i disagree for banning the soft drinks in school because teenagers' desire prefer anything has banned. i think there are many ways to avoid that like sell it with small size so the school will be in middle.sell what they want but not as much as they need.
ReplyDeleteYou are the first person to bring up this very important general idea: Things that are forbidden to us become even more desirable; in other words, we often want what we're not allowed to have!
DeleteIn this case, perhaps by not allowing soft drinks in the school we are creating even more desire for them. It's certainly an interesting theory.
Your compromise on the issue is to keep the drinks in the school but to sell them in a smaller size. That's also an interesting thought.
I agree with the school should have basically "outlawed" the soft drinks, because most of the students are children or teenagers who belong to limited behavior people, parents and school are responsible for them. Although students desire to have the freedom of what they can drink, they prefer soft drinks, obviously soft drinks are not healthy enough for them, so school should take charge with responsibility for reducing the chance that students drink soft drinks, they should have basically "outlawed" soft drinks.
ReplyDelete"belong to limited behavior people" ???
DeleteYour position is clear!
I agree with the schools that have basically "outlawed" the soft drinks. As we all know ,children like to eat or drink which taste good ,they don't care about how healthy is. Moreover , most children don't know how to control themselves which means if they know there have some place in school can buy coke ,they will buy it every time after class or exercise. In my opinion , school have to stop sell soda and teach student how bad is it .
ReplyDeleteOkay. That's clear!
Delete