An examination by the children’s charity Barnado’s concludes that children are getting bullied by their food choices at school. You have to bay unhealthy junk food like burgers and sweets in the canteen because it’s regarded as “posh”, and those who bring milk, apples and tomatoes are getting bullied for it.
In September Critics argued that there should be a new healthy-living blueprint for schools, and it was supposed to offer the schools ideas and options for the children’s diet.
Today it is unbelievable how powerful this peer pressure can be, when it comes to a simple thing as food choices. Some researchers interviewed 174 children in schools in England and the most of
them answered that the peer pressure had a strong influence on their food choices.
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The texts are trying to tell us how serious this obesity problem really is, by examinations and with statements from people from Universities.
For immigrants in USA it is a total change. Most of the people from Mexico City were used to exercise every day by walking to the store, the bus stop or to school because it’s only the rich people who can afford a car. In the USA it is a big challenge not to eat a hamburger and keep on the hard exercising. It have also been seen, that immigrant parents want their child to be just like an American, and let them watch TV and eat hotdogs the whole day long. Some researchers mean that this is why the African-American women are struggling with obesity.
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