How many days a week do you eat fast food? Once? Twice maybe? In the world we live in today, it is common to eat fast food three to five times a week. In school canteens, children are exposed to this type of meal on a daily basis, which increases the risk of health consequences and reduces the space necessary for their true performance. According to Oxford Dictionaries, fast foods are defined as "easily prepared processed foods, served in snack bars and restaurants as quick or takeaway meals." This meaning may seem harmless, but the truth is that every day more and more children suffer the consequences of our poor nutritional system. Next, you will be presented with a series of evidence that will help you better understand why fast food should not be sold in school cafeterias. Globally considered the #1 reason to ban fast food in schools, it causes serious health harm. In children, junk food causes signs of drowsiness, aches and general discomfort. But as time goes by and this habit only increases, their health noticeably suffers. With high fat, sodium, and calorie content, as well as low nutritional value, it is impossible for the majority of the student population not to develop future health problems. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, asthma, cancer and risk of death are the effects of fast food consumption, according to statistics. There is 0% chance that a meal containing previously presented nutritional value and possible harm to health could be beneficial to humans, especially not to children, because the body cannot extract any nutrients from it. What is a person without health? A person suffering serious damage from waste disguised as food? This reason alone could be enough to quickly ban...... middle of paper ...... the student's freedom of choice and let him eat as he pleases. The flaw in this argument is that if students and their parents want their child to eat unhealthy foods, they can pack them in their lunch and completely circumvent the school's health rules. By banning fast food at school, students have the right to eat however they want and can bring in what they are hungry for. So if they are banned, students will bring their own fast food anyway. If that were to be the case, the school should let them eat what they bring from home, but the school cannot afford to set a bad example regarding nutrition to the majority of the student body. As an educational entity that is a school, it must always work for what most benefits its pupils and students; they should indicate what is actually beneficial for the majority.