Question

To promote healthy eating habits, junk food should be banned in school cafeterias and vending machines. Do you agree? write an introductory paragraph for this essay prompt.

Answer 1

(Note: You may notice some errors in the introductory paragraph. Remember, writing is a process, and part of that process includes editing your work. This paragraph will be edited later in the lesson.)

I think that a persuasive essay would be appropriate. The prompt gives a statement and asks for my opinion, which means I need to take a stand either for or against the statement. When I have to take a stand about a topic, I write a persuasive essay.

Introductory paragraph:

According to a 2014 survey, 14 percent of school students in the United States are obese. Many students, even though they eat healthy at home, are eating junk food that they get in their school cafiterias and vending machines, thus geopardizing their health. Schools are where good nutritional habits should be enforced. It’s not enough to theoretically teach students what’s good for their health and what’s not in theory. Schools should practically ban junk food in their cafiterias and vending machines and replacing the unhealthy food with healthier alternatives.

Answer 2

You walk into the school wondering what you should eat as a snack. You walk past many healthy and unhealthy snacks. But now you have to choose of what kind you want. Students attending schools with vending machines face this problem everyday: healthy or unhealthy. In my opinion, schools should offer healthy vending machines because students would have a healthier snack choice, it would lower obesity rates, and students would be able to realize of what is a better choice of food for their body.