▶ Your Answer :
Although there is
no complete consensus that has been reached on this topic, yet I would like to
take a stance and make my agreement with the thesis that school cafeterias
should stop selling high-sugar drinks and soft drinks. In order to substantiate
my central focal points, I will provide specific reasons and explore the given
topic in great detail in this essay.
To begin with, I firmly believe
that as long as school cafeteria provides soft drinks and high-sugar drinks,
students’ health will be getting worse. School cafeteria is responsible to
concern students and their health. Opponents of my perspective claim that it is
students’ right to choose what they drink. Proponents of this view several
points as the rationales for their argument and their argument might have some
validity. But after closer look, there exists an abundance of examples that
calling into question what they claim. Among such examples, my personal
experience can elucidate their incorrect viewpoint. One of my cousins, he was
crazy about drinking high-sugar drinks from the time when he was elementary
student. It was easy to see that he was drinking a high-sugar drinks, because
he always keep them in his refrigerator. After he became an adult, he went to
hospital for the regular inspection. Unsurprisingly, he got a diabetes and his
doctor said he must manage his daily menu. If school cafeteria keeps selling
such high-sugar drinks to the students, it is possible that this kind of
situation can happen to anyone. This validates my earlier contention that
school cafeteria should stop selling soft drinks and high-sugar drink, because
it can harm students’ health.
The account of mine that I
illustrated above is not the only evidence to support my view. A recent survey
conducted by one of the leading educational consulting firms in Korea endorsed
my opinion when survey respondents were asked whether they sided with the
argument that school must stop selling high-sugar drinks and soft drinks to
students or not. A leading education expert claims that for the student, not
drinking such drinks can actually help students’ study. The expert also asserts
that the most important thing that students should consider is study, but if
they have such drinks, then they might lose their concentration on their
studies. According to the recent research, one group of students have better
concentration who do not drink such drinks have better concentration, while
another group of students have very low concentration who have drunk a lot.
In conclusion, in spite of the fact
that there may be some opinions that school cafeteria should guarantee
students’ right to drink what they want, taking into account of all the factors
that I described above, we may reach to the conclusion that school cafeteria should
stop selling soft drinks and high-sugar drinks to students. |