<span>At present (as of 2017 statistics), the national childhood obesity rate is 18.5 percent. The percentage of children who evidence obesity rises as children get older. The obesity rate for 12- to 19-year-olds (middle school through high school) is 20.6%.
Dietary habits have a large role in children's weight issues, and what is available at schools influences what children and teens will eat and drink. As a</span> January, 2011 article published in the J<em>ournal of Adolescent Health </em>asserted: "Schools are in a powerful position to influence children’s diets; therefore attention to foods sold in them is necessary in order to try to improve children’s diets." You could look for that article for more information. It's titled, "Foods Sold in School Vending Machines are Associated with Overall Student Dietary Intake," by Alisha J. Rovner<span>, </span>Tonja R. Nansel<span>, </span>Jing Wang<span>, and </span><span>Ronald J. Iannotti.</span>
More American children are more likely to be overweight today than they were forty years ago. One of the reasons for this is because kids are eating more unhealthy snacks during the day. Because vending machines provide students with access to unhealthy foods, they could be contributing to kids making bad choices when it comes to snacking.
In the United States, both the President and the State Department are responsible for foreign policy, although most of these powers are delegated to the Secretary of States.
One method of having control of inflation is by a contractionary monetary policy. A contractionary policy reduces the money supply within an economy by decreasing bond prices and increasing interest rates. This helps reduce spending because when there is less money to go around, those who have money want to keep it and save it, instead of spending it.
