HLTH260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27: Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Food Desert
10 Jul 2019
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And non nslp food options became less healthy when fast-food chains were allowed into the school lunchroom in the mid-1990s. Young children are now exposed to pizza hut, taco bell, Subway, mcdonald"s, and other fast-food establishments (levine 2008: 182). For them, a less nutritious fast-food lunch is not offset by a healthy dinner. Furthermore, it has been shown that schools of higher-ses students have healthier food options than schools in poor neighborhoods (delva et al. Children are affected by exposure to unhealthy conditions not only during childhood: when they grow into adults they have signifi dant health issues resulting from these early toxic experiences the damage is already done. The american academy of pediatrics notes that the toxic stress during one"s early childhood results in "a wide range of physical and mental illnesses later in adult life" (shonkoff et al. 2012: e237), including diseases as diverse as cardiovascular disease, liver cancer, depression, and obstructive pulmonary disease.
