It can be very hard for children and teens to eat in healthy ways when they're inundated with this.
Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.
This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.
Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.