Question

Argument’s conclusion: Governments should legally ban restaurants from offering toys as an incentive to families to buy food with high amounts of sugar, fat, or sodium.
Counterargument: If the government educated parents about the health effects of food with high amounts of sugar, fat, or sodium, then parents would not feed their kids food with high amounts of sugar, fat, or sodium.

Rebuttal: Even if parents have the knowledge they need to make the right decision, it’s difficult to do so if restaurants can use marketing techniques such as popular toys to attract customers. Educating parents combined with regulating restaurants can help families make healthier decisions.



Put the counterargument and rebuttal above into paragraph format. Add signal words to properly guide the reader.

Answer 1

Restaurants often offer food which is not very nutritious to kids, such as food containing high amounts of fat, sugar or sodium. Parents, not knowing the effects of these foods, feed them to their children. This causes many problems such as child obesity, which then escalates to even worse problems.
If the government educated parents about the health effects of food with high amounts of sugar, fat, or sodium, then parents would not feed their kids food with high amounts of sugar, fat, or sodium.
Even if parents have the knowledge they need to make the right decision, it’s difficult to do so if restaurants can use marketing techniques such as popular toys to attract customers. Educating parents combined with regulating restaurants can help families make healthier decisions.
Governments should legally ban restaurants from offering toys as an incentive to families to buy food with high amounts of sugar, fat, or sodium.