Making room to put a nutrition class in grade school through high school.

== '''Making room to put a nutrition class in grade school through high school. - 11/8/2007 (https://www.debate.org/debates/Making-room-to-put-a-nutrition-class-in-grade-school-through-high-school/1/)''' ==

Round 1
italia4356: "people should know how to take care of their body so they can prevent the majority of diseases and cancers and get off of the dependency of pharmoseutical companies or cold hearted pill pushers which ever name you prefer. Maybe not all but my overall view of pharmosuetical companies is pretty negative because they choose not to spend any money on commercials or info on prevention. they have the knowledge and power yet choose to take advantage of people and thier money."

gonovice: "Italia, its called a gym class! and health class! almost every school has one. In my high school we spend a large amount of time learning about how to prevent diseases. We also learn how to be wise about what medicines we decide to take. I have a lot of common sense and most americans do. so if some company decides not to give information about the topic or things along that line i'm going to do my research before i put something into my body that may not help. And all those companies who dont spend any time on the information on the disease or those sorts of things shouldnt your doctor be the one to give you the information. For you to say that they dont give enough information that may be true but people also should get the important information from their doctors. you know the ones who diagnose them in the first place.

also lets please keep this debate knowledgeable and factual for the sake of the debate."

Round 2
italia4356: "Gym class and health class, gonovice when was your first gym class and when was your first health class? what grade?. Second how much about nutrition did you learn from your gym or health class. How much do you currently know about nutrtion? How would you rate your nutrition knowledge from 1 to 10, what number. And to see if the gym class and health are realy enough to teach about nutrition how has the knowledge that was taught to you in those classes effected your daily life. For instance if you would could you give a sample of your current diet for a one day. Just try to pick the things you eat most often on most days, through out the day. Maybe I am wrong, maybe school are already teaching enough about health and nutrition, though the more the 60% of the countries obesity rate do not say much, nore does the epidemic of heart disease,diabetes, and cancer deaths. It is said the in a few years from now corornary heart disease will surpass cigarette smoking as the most preventable cause of death."

gonovice: "i had my first gym class in kindergarten. And I had my first health class in seventh grade. Giving kids a class in nutrition does not mean that they're going to listen or apply it to real life. Disease can be spread through a number of ways. Lets be real if you were given a nutrition class would you use it? i might listen but it doesnt mean I would actually go out and do what I was tought."