My school doesn't only allows soda to be purchased after school, so less people are buyig it, and the people who are, are usually athletes waiting for pracice after school. No harm done there. I think they should have a scale before the soda machine, and if you weigh over set weight, no soda for you fattie. The soda machine is activated by the scale, so no getting around that, and then have a camera above it, so no one else can buying for a fat person. Wow, I guess this is a tad bit extreme. Oh well, drink all the soda you want fatties, die of a heart attack at 40, I don't care.
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wow, this thread got a lot of feedback
I am glad i'm not the only one that believes the choice of the person is important
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This was how my HS was: 2 vending machines in the front of the school. Both were on timers that only let them vend after school ended. These machines were strictly soda. We had 3 other vending machines in our cafeteria that served food in one and drinks in 2. We had snapple, milkchug, water, sunnyd, etc. The usual school drinks. Personally, I bought my lunch everyday. I'd get pizza 3 times a week, cheeseburgers once a week, and something random once a week. I'd get cheese fries 5 days a week and the 8oz chocolate milk that came with the meal 5 days a week. I'd eat my entire meal and then pound the milk after.
It was never a big deal that the soda machines were turned off during lunch hours... you couldn't even get to them during lunch (not allowed to leave the cafeteria). Then again, I don't drink that much soda. Either way, I don't see it as much of a problem, and never really understood why the school chose to turn the machine off during school hours. I stopped at Wawa every morning before school to get a breakfast sandwich and a newspaper anyways.
Oh well.
PS - those who don't know what Wawa is... you poor souls are missing out. ALOT.RIPComment
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Duh. That's all I do here. Notice how I advertise the fact that I'm almost 19, in college, and that most people cannot type correctly in a whole crapload of threads?Originally posted by Arch0wl-R2
Anything to bump my social image.
But to be completely serious, the college comment was to let people know that times are better once high school is over. Even though I didn't pay for soda at all during my high school times (freeze a 24-oz bottle of gatorade that you filled with a 64-oz bottle of gatorade and let it defrost during the day, only to be able to drink it at or a little after lunchtime).
I've never had bawls.
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My dad, brother, and I buy stuff there on our way to the eastern shore.PS - those who don't know what Wawa is... you poor souls are missing out. ALOT.Comment
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Oh, I forgot:
My school encourages us to buy from the machines. The money made from them goes to the school, so we don't have to do fund raisers (often). I'm sure there are other ways to get money in the school, but mainly it's either vending machines or fund raisers. I also have a jar that I put those little "Box Tops for Education" Tabs in, and whenever the jar gets full, I put it in a paper bag. Eventually, it'll get my school $50. We could buy...a new stapler...Comment
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If they take soda out of school...the school justs looses money...and I'll be mad!
"I'd burn alive to keep you warm"
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Hi. I drink two to three cokes every day. I eat constantly and I eat total shit. I don't exersize or work out during the school year.
I weigh ~140 pounds and have 8% total body fat.
Coke does not cause obesity unless you're predispositioned to being fat anyway, in which case it won't matter whether or not you drink coke. Plus, the fact that it has like, ~100 calories, none of them from fat, means pretty much the only argument you can make against it is it's sodium or sugar content.
Sorry guys. I'm calling bs on this one. Is it unhealthy? Sure. Does it make you fat? No.Comment
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Why wasn't this thread over after Drac's post? He said it all perfectly. My school got its cokes taken away in my senior year. I wasn't distressed because I ate lunch off-campus. However, in junior high, I would wager to say >80% of my lunches consisted of a pack of powdered sugar donuts and a twenty ounce Coke, and I was in the best shape of my life then. I heart my soft drinks, and was pissed that people like me would no longer be able to drink them in the cafeterias just because the school wants to be a regulatory agency of kids' diets. Now, I couldn't blame them if they wanted to do it so as to avoid having to widen all the doors because all the kids were too fat, but there's no way that was their reasoning.
I just thought of something. Is the "no cokes in public school cafeterias" rule a Texas state law, or is it up to the district? Q, Mind, y'all know?
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Anti, excess glucose (and all other carbs, but glucose, fructose, and sucrose in particular) are converted into body fat if it cannot be used as glycogen or anything else.
Spare calories turn to fat.
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THE ZERRRRRG.Comment
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So I guess I have to worry about that ~100 calories I get from the coke while chowing down on my double hulkburgers. I'll just get water, please.Spare calories turn to fat.Comment
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There aren't any machines in my cafeteria. Right outside the cafeteria on all three entrances, though...I just thought of something. Is the "no cokes in public school cafeterias" rule a Texas state law, or is it up to the district? Q, Mind, y'all know?
In any case, drinking excessive amounts of soda is bad for the health. Just like eating excessive amounts of oranges or having too much excercise. Basically, too much of anything is bad. The question, which I think we answered, was "do the schools have the right to decide what to do about their student's health?" We came up with "No, they don't."
Moving on...
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Keep the soda, its a free country. Besides, when they get out of school, they will urge for soda and become so damn obese that it doesnt matter.Comment
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My schools only have sodas in the teachers' lounges, and it's always been that way. I really wish I could have sodas in school, but I'd have to bring it in from home, with a cool pack, and a lunchbox etc. (too much of a hassle.) I'm kind of like anticrombie in that I'm not fat: I'm 137 lbs. and 6' tall. Of course, I eat a lot, and a lot of junk food, but I work out/do kung fu/have to do workouts for varsity ski team, so I just stay skinny. But I drink all the cherry coke humanly possible. I don't think that a school should be able to take that away from somebody, and I think it would be in the best interest of the school and the kids to put up a soda machine. We do have a nesquik machine, snapple, powerade, fruit2o, etc, but nothing carbonated. Waah.How has it been 15 yearsComment
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Originally posted by ToshX
see that is also a big part of it.
should they let us feed our addiction to soda? or help us fight it off?Comment
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