400 words article

400 words article

Serious Problems in Children's Health

To massificate healthy food is not the only thing that Schools have to do.

Now in schools, the people are very concerned because they want a solution to prevent injuries. The teachers are looking for some solutions to stop injuries, but they are focuse only in preventing of falling down or injuries in sports and those things, so the schools are putting answers to stop this like to integrate the concept of smart risk-taking into a school’s culture and its social norms, promoting this in events of schools, talking with parents so they can talk with their sons, talking about preventing injuries in classes and security problems that are around the school, advocate for safe walk-to-school programs and many other things. So the problem that I am seeing in this case, is that they have to worry in other problems too. I am talking about the food that schools sells, alcohol that students drink, tobacco that students smoke.  Those are some problems that schools have to prevent in kids and teenagers.

 For example in food.  In USA, 23 million of children and adolescents are obese or have overweight, this is because schools have to stop selling junk food  and they have to change drink machines that have many sugar drinks and put diet juices or water, etc. if schools don’t stop this, injuries in students will continue.

 The use of tobacco affects lungs, so this disables children to do sports in a good way.

 And the other thing that I want to talk about, is the alcohol. Some studies done by NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) have shown the following:

In 8^th graders the 51 % have tried alcohol and in 12^th graders the 80% have tried the alcohol. So the percentage is going up when students grow up. The only thing to do if we want to stop this, is to talk in classes and in the house of every student about the bad things and consequences that leaves drinking alcohol.

An other topic of drinking alcohol is that if you start drinking alcohol at the properly  age you can have a significant impact on your future alcohol use.

A problem that is the most fatal is of drinking and then driving.  That is danger for drivers and also for persons that are walking in the streets, and between 15 and 20 years old is the  leading killer in car accidents. Other few reasons of deaths are, physical fights, homicides, suicides, falls and toxic poisoning .

So if schools want to prevent injuries, they have to take care in all things that can do injuries, damage and hurt in students.

                                    Diego Morales Hartmann.