Food Incentives Can Perpetuate the Problem of Obesity

Food incentives can perpetuate the problem of obesity because teachers use it as a means to bride their students to do the right thing. Most of the time, teachers give their students candy instead of a healthy alternative like an apple. However, even healthy alternatives are not a very good idea because some of your students might have food allergies. Giving children candy will cause them to only behave when they are given sweets. Therefore, when they feel good about something they have done they will only want candy, cake, icecream, etc.. Consequently, when you give a child sweets as an award they will not develop healthy eating habits. Furthermore, this will just prolong the problem of childhood obesity. There are a number of

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