It can be very hard for children and teens to eat in healthy ways when they’re inundated with this.

Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.

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.

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.