Health Debate Topics for Kids

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• my name is a reference to scrubs, and you're just a 15 year old kid. I'm 16, and a time traveler. i can prove it if you press for it. The topic is of this debate is: Yellow Notebook paper is better for the eye than white notebook paper you just said white notebook paper added…
• I answered your colorblindness argument, and you brought up no significant numbers regarding successful color blind people. That leads me to believe that most successful people, want to look professional, and use yellow legal pads, rather than white ones, that make them look…

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• Yes, sure they are trying to protect us- but really once you get to middle school you should be allowed to choose for yourself. Yes, mothers want us to be healthy but having some junk food for lunch at school isn't all that bad. It's not like its ALL the kids will ONLY be…
• Yes, junk food is high in calories and low in nutrition. But the school has no right to tell kids what they can and cannot eat. Also the school has a chance to increase their profits if they decided to sell junk food, thus making a better learning environment- this could boost…

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• It is understanding that exercise can be time consuming, especially when one has so much to do, like me. There are other ways to combat this issue, like: multi-tasking (doing whatever it is you need to do in an exercising way), walking to work if the location is not far,…
• Carbohydrates may affect one's weight, but it is dependent on how one's body is used (what they do physically). If they exercise, then any carbohydrate is very beneficial for one as they fuel muscles and help them grow and become more muscular (1). Some more reasons are: they…

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• Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, My name is Donia I'll be your speaker for the day. we are gathered here today to discuss an important topic that has a life or death situation stuck to its name. this house believes that we will eventuality find a cure for cancer, which has…
• I'm glad I managed to get you to agree with me; you see there is no denying people are surviving which is the same as being cured; the disease is being detected early (that is, treatment is working) leading to the cure of cancer, but perfection in anything does take time. 98%…

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• Fast Foods and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Fast Food, Diabetes and Heart Disease

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• One of the leading problems in society is obesity. Childhood obesity is becoming more popular, and one of the leading factors for this is school lunches. Many kids buy lunch at school. The lunches at school are not healthy at all. Most of the food is packaged an pre-made, and…

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• Im dissapointed you failed to explain and extend your argument.Please vote for Pro Im the only one to give an argument.Con did not participate in the debate.Please take this in to consderation voters.
• Im sorry that you forfeited the round. Hopefully you can give a rebuttal next round.Aserstion One-Statistics- Thats alot of kids who play! Anyway to prove my point a majority of teenagers play video games. How can this be harmfull? Well the shooters at Colubine were gamers.…

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• I was not able to post in round 4 because I was conveying information in the best way possible, here is my argument Here are 7 ways video games can benefit your health Your parents may have tried to kick you off your Super Nintendo just about every time you sat down in front of…
• I may not have information for you currently, but these are all credible links that can almost immediately disprove you're thoughts and position on this issue: http://theweek.com... http://mentalfloss.com... http://www.huffingtonpost.com... http://time.com...…

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• Hearing all these articles about people being obese bothers me and they shame the American people and it is completely unnecessary. So why do we just force the obese to do something instead of sitting around being fat? Instead of having them sit around being fat let them lose…
• MY opponent has surrendered

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• I apologize for being unclear. When I said fast food is a cause for many deaths, what I meant was that if not eaten in moderation, it can cause obesity, which can lead to heart disease or diabetes, which can eventually lead to death [1]. I said that some people really do not…
• I extend my arguments from the previous round to this one for my opponent to respond to.

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• Con states that only 1-2% percent of nicotine is goes in too the body. Then never responded about how the other harmful chemicals named in my previous respond like the carcinogens (cancer-causing poisons). Then talks about how we have a choices to stop if we choose. Ignoring…
• Rebuttal con explains how a cigarette contains 10mg of nicotine. Then we would have to obverse how at how many people smoke cigarettes a day. Let's take a look at how nicotine addiction works, Every puff a person takes at least takes 10 sec for nicotine to reach the brain. Then…

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• I am for this topic because kids needs to start to eat right now a days for their health

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• It is clear that we need to abolish Trans Fat in our schools for the following reasons: Risk of Trans Fat Obesity Advertisement Trans fat as we know raises your bad (LDL) cholesterol levels and lower your good (HDL) cholesterol levels. The consumption of Tran's fats increases…
• THIS SHALL BE JUST LIKE A PUBLIC FORUM Round FIRST ROUND SHALL AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC (NO DEBATE IN THE FIRST ROUND) SECOND ROUND IS THE MAIN ROUND WERE YOU STATE YOUR ARGUMENT THE FINAL ROUND SHALL BE A CROSS EXAMINATION SECTION AND REFUTATION ( DEBATE AGAINST OPPONENTS…

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• Lard RULES. It can burnt to keep people warm. It can make anorexic people normal sized. It can make hides waterproof.
• I do not appreciate the foul language you have used today. However I will still engage you in what I like to call WORD COMBAT. . http://www.foodandwine.com... Lard has little pork flavor, making it ideal for use in baked goods, where it is treasured for its ability to produce…

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• Rules 1. I will argue in favor of the resolution that arm wrestling can indeed, be dangerous. 2. No trolling. 3. No plagiarism. 4. First round for acceptance. Failure to follow these rules will result in a 7-point forfeiture. Definitions Dangerous - likely to cause harm Arm…

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• I forfeit.!!!!!!!!!
• We are not talking about who's company is better but which one is healthier. Maybe some burgers have less calories but it depends on what you take. Happy Meals are made so that children don't take in too many calories. They include fruit and and even normal juices. You don't…

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• Chocolate milk is healthy because it contains the same 9 nutrients as white milk. Chocolate milk drinkers are not heavier than non-milk drinkers. You can find an explanation video to support this at youtube.com and type in Midwest Diary Chocolate Milk nurse. This topic is well…

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• I am representing the affirmative side of the argument, "Kids Eat too Much Sugar." Childhood obesity greatly increased in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6"11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to almost 18% in 2012. And what…
• While I may say that your point is makes sense, kids could just simply cut down the sugar in their diet and limit the amount of unhealthy food they consume. Exercising is very important, but most kids do play a sport, and some of them are still obese. Their sport could keep…

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• It's better for health because, when kids are younger they are most likely to sleep sideways and which ends up giving damage to their teeth. Sleeping sideways can make babies and kids have crooked teeth ending up making them wear braces which costs a lot of money.
• It is good to have a better back which means a healthy back. But it's good for a lot of people to sleep up because they're are some people who will criticize a person for how they look because they have wrinkles. Like ar school, a teenager wodnt want to get bullied because of…

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• Full Resolution: Junk Food should be banned from schools My side: Pro What is Junk Food? Junk food: food that is not good for your health because it contains high amounts of fat or sugar Examples: pizza, donuts, fast food, hamburgers, sausages, hot dogs, cakes, frosting, etc. .…
• I will first rebut the counterplan of my opponent's. I will rebut my opponent's third round in this round. I will first start with his observations.CounterplanMy opponent's counterplan is that we should limit 2 junk foods per day. It won't work. Did you ever think that schools…

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• " 50% of bacon is monounsaturated and a large part of those is Alec acid" Alec acid isn't actually a thing. Its called oleic acid. Either this is a horrible mistype, or you where attempting to avoid plagiarizing as this is a direct quote from the website you sourced. "Meat…
• Bacon is a bad food. I would like to clarify at the beginning I am talking about real bacon, not fake bacon, or turkey bacon or any other variations. Simply real pig bacon. Bacon is 68% fat and contains 30 mg of cholesterol (for the average strip). It has been linked to…

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• 1. They stay up till 3 in the morning 2. When I was in school, 5 out of 6 where tired to do work from playing all night 3. Being tired would prevent you from getting good grades,then you don't get any degrees and then no jobs more than at a little restraunt. 4. If kids get…
• Yeagh it would be bad if kids where all to tierd to learn at school and so they dont get an education. We would not be able to control jobs once the workers die those children dont have a degree and will turn away our population.

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• I know that healthier food cost more $$$, but if it means that the students are healthy and energized; then it's TOTALLY worth it. And i'm not saying that we should force them to eat salad, but I don't li,e that we are given so many unhealthy, processed foods. I mean, we can…
• I want healthier food in schools, who's with me?

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• I barely even know what the fu�k you even said. How does smoking around kids cause people to go postal at their job? And that era of cancer victims, tar breath and retardation is here now. And I'm pretty sure you pulled retardation out of the top of your head. PS, you should…
• Okay, on the troll meter, you pass me, and that's saying something. You insult an obvious troll post, and use terrible grammar and fact sources too. Its quite obvious that you're <10 years old, or a college student with autism. Or you just might be a troll like me. But why not…

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• why tho everybody likes candy mannnnnn

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• you're absolutely right vote for him. adffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffadffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

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• No longer Debating.
• If there are ethics involved, we should remember that the eggs were never allowed to be alive.

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• ok
• its actually really good because chocolate helps you with depression

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• Kids need some sugar to stay alive
• Should kids eat candy? from, Joshua

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• "There may be an impact made by banning junk food in schools but it would be so ridiculously minuscule there would be no point in doing so.". So you admit that there will at least be a "miniscule" change ? Then how is it pointless ? What is there to gain by keeping junk food in…
• Haha sorry forgot about this thingy.. anyways.. Okay so you reckon that children will just buy stuff at the store right ? Well after a while of doing that they will get to the stage of not being bothered anymore, you see buying food at school is a lot more convenient than…

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• ===My case=== By arguing that obesity was and is still bad for the United States, I also argue that Trans Fat is bad for you simply because Trans Fat is the leading cause of obesity within our various school zone. ===My Opponent Case=== In his first paragraph, my opponent…
• School as in K-12 and only public schools Thanks for accepting. Definitions : School- an institution designed for the teaching of students (http://en.wikipedia.org...) Eliminate:to put an end to or get rid of (http://www.merriam-webster.com...) TransFat: an industrial process…

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• Since my opponent is really naive and doesnt have ANY arguments I am just going to post case studies and personal accounts Inversion table relieves sciatica pain At 40 years old and relatively fit, I was having back problems and sciatica. It's hard to explain- tightness,…
• WELCOME ! WELCOME TO SOLARMANS WORLD OF HEALTH TODAYS TOPIC IS INVERSION; HANGING UPSIDE DOWN ANOTHER OF SOLARMANS KEYS TO HEALTH ! History of Inversion http://www.teeterhangups.com... Inversion therapy has been used to relieve back pain as early as 400 BC when Hippocrates, the…

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• Fast food restaurants are in eventuality causing a lot of health problems for the country and skyrocketing the national medical bill. Fast food - food prepared quickly, with little regard to nutritive quality. sell - to advertise and cater for, to transact with monetarily This…

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• My Opponent often fails to realize that I am not debating on the basis of the Cookie Monster sanity, but on the basis of the Cookie Monster addiction to cookies. If he wishes to continue to use straw man arguments so be it, but they won't help them against my arguments. If he…
• My opponent may continue to subject himself to the philosophy Epiphenomenalism. However he continually fails to realize that the Cookie Monster is indeed responsible for his own actions and his failure to control his eating habits. I am suggesting that there is a potentially an…

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• My opponent wishes to start with the safety of these two exercise options. First, to address injuries. It is true that runners do have a pretty solid per year injury rate, but what is not often recognized is that bikers are injured far more often, and one can imagine, more…
• The Biking Indoors ExcuseMy opponent has tried to lessen the weight of the motor vehicle/cyclist accident rates by offering the fact cycling indoors is a much safer alternative. While this appears to be true, it doesn't refute anything. My opponent is representing cycling as a…

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• However you can conclude you arguments. My first argument was that schools need to practice what they preach. Schools teach you to not eat junk food in health but if they let you eat it, it is just plain odd. .. My second argument is that Schools are the best place to create…
• Thank you for making your argument HaloH. I believe that junk food should be banned because of 3 main reasons. My first reason was that Schools need to practice what they preach, my second argument is that schools are the best place to creating lasting lifestyle changes, and my…

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• Very well, thanks Con. I will be summarizing everything and fix a few holes and misrepresentation. There will be no new arguments, just a summary of what we did above as we agreed on our rule '4th Round - Summary of proposition and opposition's case (NO new…
• Thanks Con. I will start with rebuttals first, defence later.Rebuttal: DiversityCon makes a claim of diversity, but she did not explain how this benefits tea. The benefits is just that it's colorful rather than actually saving people's life. She did however, concluded that…

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• Obesity is a public health issue .
• Making it easier for parents to raise their children well.

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• This house will ban chocolate for under ten children

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• Nowadays most of people listen to music by headphones and do not hear other people who says something and it is annoy other people. And happened a lot of cases like die, deafness e.t.c. when they use headphones and also when they cross the road they died because of do not…
• Headphones are harmful. There are several reasons to consider that headphones " A. Headphones is deadly B. It is lead to deafness c. Disturb our thoughts According to the article "Wearing headphones is deadly" researches showed that between 2004 and 2011 registered 116 cases of…

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• Yes. Cigarettes should be banned for Children. Why? For they are still on the development stage and it is not good for them to smoke because they will have have higher rates of lung infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Children who smokes have have higher rates of…
• As what you said "It negatively affects no one except your children". You sure about that? In fact, smoking affects not only your children but also your surroundings as well (plants, people,etc) or what we called "secondhand smoke" Seeing the future, if people continue smoking…

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• Eating more fresh fruit will help you stay away from processed food. Fruit comes from nature not a factory. The closer to nature, the better for your health. Fruits are naturally low in fat, calories, and have key nutrients that your child needs to grow. Fruit helps protect you…
• Eating fruit provides health benefits " people who eat more fruits and vegetables as part of an overall healthy diet are likely to have a reduced risk of some chronic diseases. Fruits provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body.

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• Overall, my opinion still stands. I do not believe you can deny a child a substance that is readily available throughout society. As cigarettes and alcohol law prove, you can not protect children against a substance that is socially acceptable in life. Although you may be able…
• Cigarettes can be used to prove my point as well. We see teens smoking cigarettes which is a banned substance. Considering children hit a rebellious period in their life, children may use soda as their rebellious obsessions just as some teens use cigarettes as there. Overall,…

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• Hello, this is my first debate here on Debate.org, so I hope I do well. The world is currently using too much corn for everything we can think of, and it is hurting the economy. First, farmers grow massive amounts of corn, more than we could possibly need. Then the government…
• If you are using too much of something, you need to reduce it, by definition of too much: beyond the desirable amount. You didn't post any further arguments, so I can't debate anything. By using corn ethanol, we don't reduce our carbon emissions. It would increase it, because…

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• Obesity is on the rise One out of six children these days are obese, one out of three are overweight[1]. That is too many children. In the past when children were bored they would play outside. Right now they sit around and eat junk food on their cell phones. If we do not stop…
• This is a debate on healthy meal plans not the existence of schools. When you click on a debate you are supposed to be debating that topic not something loosely related to that topic. A world without education is anarchy. No one would have the qualifications to work no one…

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• All energy drinks should be banned!

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• Accepted! Adil Muhammad from the State of Qatar When it comes to video game addiction, what are the disadvantages? Obviously this sounds like a ridiculous question. If something is considered an addiction isn"t it often associated as a negative? Does this video game addiction :…
• Ok then. The winner is crystal clear.

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• Rebutall I am here to say that KFC is bad. In my first point that McDonalds is bringing a health program puting some sandwiches,salads,and dessert under 350 calories. They been putting lost of ads about this program including Ronald McDonald. All you are telling me is just one…
• Cross fire On my point, I was stated that McDonalds is throwing Ads that McDonalds is healthy like Ronald getting kids to run and play, the revivsed chicken sandwiches, Is their any ads on healthy stuff in KFC? In your averaging was that fried chicken, extra crispy or grilled?…

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• Sorry. There are only three rounds! Never mind. We shall move on because Round 2 is for arguments: 1. Definitions We- the government Should- you should know that Ban- destroy Junkfood- Candy 2. Candy Leads to Obesity Candy has been proven to cause obesity in many states in the…
• Hello all readers. In this debate, Round 1 is for acceptance. Round 2 through 4 is for arguments. Round 5 is a wrap up. No new arguments made. Thank you to anyone who accepts this debate.