Health Debate Topics for Students — page 5

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• I think vegetables are healthier. Many fruits have lots of sodium, potassium, and sugar. Many people people say fruits are healthier. But, have you ever noticed that most vegetables have more calcium, protein, vitamin C, and so on.
• People hate vegetables. Some people to be exact. But they should know that they are healthy, even though they taste bad

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• "I said it raises taxes beyond the necessary limit. Read my post next time, don't skim it. As I said, just paying for 10% of the population causes much less of an increase in taxes, so we should do that instead." Same to you - I can still apply the same argument to that. What…
• "Taxes are infringing on an individual's right to make money, so, although they are necessary, universal health care causes us to raise them above that level." OK, I can make the same argument about anything. The government needs funding for a war - they'll raise taxes. The…

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• 1. The fact remains: the Constitution restrcits the government 24 times with the word "not." The founding fathers would have opposed a ban on trans fats, because they opposed big government restricting liberties. Also, your quote doesn't even make sense! Liberty is the exact…
• 1. Yes. Trans fats are unhealthy. But we live in a free society. We should be able to live and choose what foods we eat even if they are fatty. "No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words…

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• Er, I'll take that as a no.
• 1. The source was right there, the first one.2. As I said in No.4., even if people don't smoke in the public, the smell could travel from place to place and people will inhale it anyway, without even smelling it. 3. "...it is not threatening to to the public as a whole." It is.…

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• This debate has been very fun. May the best debater win. I want to thank my opponent for posting his argument. My opponent believes that healthcare is a right, and not a service. Basically, he is saying that the right to live is a service, and not a right. This is because if…
• Before I start debating, I must list my sources from the previous round as well as this round. My sources include: . http://wikipedia.org... . http://www.pnhp.org... I want to start by addressing your argument that the wait times in places such as Canada are much longer than…

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• Firstly, GMO testing has proven ill effects in rats, unlike what the Con has purported. After two years of testing the journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology published this 9/19/12: "severe adverse health effects including mammary tumors and kidney and liver damage, leading to…
• Thank you contender for your edification regarding GMOs for the layperson, expounding upon the issue of whether GMO foods or even Genetically Engineered foods ought to be labeled. This issue extends far beyond the layperson indeed. It's a global issue. What this debate is truly…

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• Hello, I'm not going to fully put accross my argument in this post, simply outline the terms and topic. I believe there should be a forced nationwide smoking ban all over the USA, to cut smoking for both health and pleasure reasons. During this debate, I will not be placing…

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• in response to my opponents forfeit, haha, it's ok. ======DEBATE====== So Ladies and Gentlemen, we can now clearly see that side opposition failed to give us an extensive explanation on why the prohibition of healthcare to smokers are damaging equality . Before I draw my…
• Allow me to do a few rebuttals. 1) Aim of Health care I concur that healthcare system refers to the establishment of a harmonious and healthy society. But you might have missed one of the keywords i mentioned above - general picture. The government should never prioritize the…

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• I would just like to point out, that firstly, CON drops my entire case and simply procures another argument. Let's start with a refutation again. It is not secret that fast food implies fat and greasy foods. They now state their nutritional content on websites and packaging.…
• As PRO, I will be supporting the resolution that fast food is killing the nation. By killing, it is meant that fast food has detrimental effects on the nation (it's economy, citizens, etc. ) The nation in question will be the United States of America. Let's start with a…

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• Now, to refute his last argument: Yes, it is their choice, but education has taught us that cigars are not beneficial in countless ways. You have to be mentally strong, and say no. However, there is a way to decrease smoking. By banning cigars, the ban would influence the…
• Swell! Obviously, this will result into an entertaining debate, compared to some of my other debates. My opponent agrees with my points, but yes, you cannot argue against facts. However, let me refute his arguments. These harms should let the government know that is fine with…

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• My opponents rebuttle to the points and valid arguments made,"I think that the government should not force the upbringing of children(which is the parents job)upon the teachers. The teachers are there to teach math,social studies,English,and science NOT to teach us what's right…
• My opponent has forfeited the round, please extend all arguments.

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• Drugs are bad, mmkay.
• Furthermore, if Dave Ramsey doesn't do something, we shouldn't do it either. Ramsey see. Ramsey do.

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• Getting rid of technology in a childs life will just make this work. Take it from a teenager, you have to work with them. If you're not letting them do things that average teens like to do (video games, ipods, television), then they are going to rebel, about EVERYTHING. Cutting…
• The parents in some way are to blame. On the other hand, children have the right to make their own decisions (when it comes to food) at a certain age. Is a 13 year old boy or girl going to eat only what their parents want them too? They have a say in what they eat. They are…

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• Public option cuts obscene profits of insurance establishment
• Public insurance saves many businesses cost of health insurance

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• Thank you for the debate, qdawgt1. I have enjoyed it and I am glad that you can at least recognize where my position is coming from.
• I would like to start this round by thanking my opponent for responding. He is a new user on the website and I am glad that he seems committed. Now, let's examine his initial arguments.Battle of MoralityMy opponent opens up with the statement that this is not a debate. A small…

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• However, I will address some things and refer back to my previous round. 1) While I am sorry for your loss, within the realm of debating such things are logical fallacies known as appeals to emotion (it is also anecdotal evidence and so dismissable on that alone). 2) My…
• In this debate I will be arguing for the rights of private property ownership and the right to do what you want in your own private property. First we should note that "young adults" is the age group 19 - 40 under Erikson's stages of development [1]. Most psychological stages…

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• it is because of the peer pressure in teens lives with school, media, and music that they are having sex in the first place we all no that teens(not all ) are having sex and no matter how much the parents want to stop it teens will always be disobeying their parents.…
• Each year in United States, 800,000 to 900,000 adolescents 19 years of age or younger become pregnant The pregnancy rate for teenagers 15 to 19 years of age fell 19 percent from 116 per 1,000 in 1991 to 94.3 in 1997, reversing an 11 percent rise from 1986 to 19914 From 1995 to…

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• Thus starving and/or disorders are not only bad for peers, but for the models themselves. This may result in sickness or death, which is not at all necessary. There are many campaigns like Dove for instance, that value natural body shapes and who get the same amount of publicity.
• The problem for tweens, teens, and even adults these days are highly influenced by media; from favourite celebrities to weight loss ads. One of the leading controversies are their self-image, which can be negotiated by simply looking at the cover of a magazine in the…

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• With the passing of the new laws on restaurants posting calorie counts, Americans could save hundreds or thousands of calories they would have otherwise consumed. It is projected that if the obesity rates keep rising, they will be at 42% by the time we reach 2050. It is absurd…
• 1. A length of a study of 10 months based on a Starbucks in New York city has shown a 6% decrease in calories consumed, which comes strictly from food consumption, not drinks. http://greedgreengrains.blogspot.com... 2. If we're spending our money looking for the next miracle…

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• I would like to clarify my viewpoint. I believe that parents have the right to vaccinate or not vaccinate their children. I also believe that those parents who decide not to vaccinate their children, should not be denied an education but should be denied the ability to…
• Although it is ultimately up to the parents on whether they wish to vaccinate thier kids, I think it breaks a social contract to exclude your child from vaccination and place them into an environment that may put your child and other children at risk. Vaccinations have proved…

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• Actually Tax payers would indeed need to pay More to fund The Rehabilitation centers that young people would be in only because the drug is legal and is flying around the city and the only reason this would happen is because the drug is legal and if it was not and only legal…
• Marijuana can be turned to liquid and can be used for skin. and this street drug is very easy to get. yes even if a family member has a prescription, But if you have a prescription for the Drug you should know to be responsible Enough to put it away safely why no one could get…

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• With many thanks to Veridas for his prompt reply, I should like to respond to the points he made as follows: There is no need for the word obese, except for communications between health professionals. The word "fat" is malleable enough to replace it. For example, if you say…
• British Government Minister Anne Milton yesterday suggested that doctors should call overweight patients "fat" rather than "obese". 'She told the BBC the term fat was more likely to motivate them into losing weight. She said it was important people should take personal…

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• Thank You for accepting my challenge. Let me reiterate that this debate was created in order for me to get a better understanding of smokers. I am not preaching people should quit or feel bad as I believe what people do with their own money, time, and body is truly up to them.…
• My view is that there is nothing good about cigarettes and that it should be banned all over the world. There are many smokers out there so I would like a debate to try to understand why they smoke, what they gain, and generally be enlightened as to why cigarettes have not been…

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• \\\Cell phones are not dangerous because they are made of lint/// Most cell phones look like this: http://weblogs.cltv.com... as you can see the phone is made out of metal or shiny plastic, and not lint. \\\I would also like to point out my opponents cell phone does not…
• Resolved that cell phones are dangerous. Please state points why cell phones are not dangerous.

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• I was expecting someone who vehemently and fundamentally opposes the idea of universal coverage, so I have to admit I was thrown a bit when I read your argument. But I've recouped myself, so here we go. .. 1. The Department of Health and Human Services has operated Medicare…
• I have yet to see anyone adequately defend a universal health care system. I propose that we NEED not just a system where everyone is covered, but a single-payer system where the government provides basic coverage for everyone while keeping private ownership of hospitals and…

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• Did you not watch the video and see the arrile from round 4?
• What I mean is that cigars and pipes are 100% tobacco. Most cigarettes are not 100% tobacco and contain 400+ other chemicals. The relevance is that they are all types of tobacco smoking. https://www.rstreet.org... No, we didn't agree that we're only talking about cigarettes,…

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• Socialized Health Care: "The provision of medical and hospital care for all by means of public funds". Arguments will begin in Round #2.
• My opponent asks, how Socialized Medicine is the solution to our broken health care system. Here's how: As I stated before, currently, it is estimated that 44,800 excess deaths occurred annually, in the US, due to lack of health insurance. Socialized Medicine will provide…

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• Okay, first of all I can kind of see what you are saying about freedom, however, there are lots of laws in the UK which are stripping people from their freedom however, they are stripping people of there freedom for the better. In think this is what they should do with…
• Good, and thanks for accepting. So here's my main argument: Well, as you and i will know cigarettes have devastating effects on people, however once people start, the cannot stop, becasue of the nicotine in cigarettes. I'm not going to go into all the effects of cigarettes,…

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• Hello, I will be debating in favor of universal coverage. I believe that universal coverage is better than the current system we have right now. I believe that not only will it improve the well being of our society, but help us economically too. Anyone who is willing to debate…

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• I will be arguing that a special tax, to be implemented only on foods deemed to be harmful to the health of an individual, would be beneficial for society. I accept the burden of proof in this debate. I propose that the junk food tax (JFT from this point on) will have several…

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• First of all I feel that relating the risks of obesity to the risks of smoking is irrelevant to our debate. First of all smoking regularly can cause serious and permanent damage to a person"s health; even is a person would to quit smoking then, if they had been smoking long…
• Thanks for joining my debate, I agree that the government has done a lot to stop people smoking around non-smokers; however this does nothing to help people who are already smoking. Smoking has been proven to cause serious damage to a person"s health and although, it does not…

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• You are not getting my point. You just keep re-posting what I wrote and you keep doing your best to negate it all. You seem to want to debate the fact that cars are harmful to human beings when in reality, everything is. Automobiles are a necessity in the life of a human,…
• Being trapped in a car can make it hard to breathe but it does not hinder someones breathing over the course of their lifetime. Car crashes are unexpected and most of the time unwanted. No one gets in their car and says "I want to cause a car crash today," but people do…

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• You say: "You say that these are not specific traits, then what defines specific. Also one of these traits might not be specific on its own but the more and more traits you add, the rarer the combination is." This is true, so if the symptoms where specific, such as hearing…
• Just a point before we begin, you say: "By not admitting that children with ADHD have a known disorder we are letting them go back to being the badly behaved kid in the classroom. By diagnosing them and telling them that they are not alone we are preventing discrimination. It…

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• It is still my opinion that a total smoking ban would be beneficial for our lifestyle. It is however a long-term target to achieve a change of attitude towards the population and to prepare the authorities for this radical change. A public smoking ban is definitely a positive…
• Seen from my point of view it seems wrong to prevent the prohibition of smoking, which would cause a positive and healthy development in many peoples lifestyle, due to a possible increase of criminality. A smoking ban will of course result in difficulties but these difficulties…

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• I'm going to start off with something short and to the point. No healthcare system is perfect and some models are defiantly better than others. The US healthcare system is far from perfect. I agree with your three main attributes because these are the three things everybody…

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• Because my opponent can not respond, I can not respond either. I shall allow him to make closing arguments if he chooses.
• Thank you for accepting this challenge. My opponent has stated that to say antidepressants are over prescribed means allowing those with depression to suffer. However depression itself is over diagnosed, meaning many who take antidepressants are are considered "depressed" may…

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• I am looking forward to the reply and any future debates we might have. "The cons in our system is that many people are uninsured and many more are constantly treated poorly by the insurance companies which make massive amounts of money off screwing over sick people. " While I…
• It looks promising. I first want to declare that I am by no means satisfied with the current health care situation in America. But then, I'm really not happy with any other health care situation anywhere else in the world either -- including the much touted Canada and England.…

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• Universal health care will not resist you treatment for your illness based on the cost of the procedure. Health insurance is big business and they gain more satisfaction by declining patients and saving money than providing treatment for those in desperate need of medical…
• Health care is a right for all Americans, the Preamble of the US Constitution states that one of its purpose is to "promote the general welfare" of the people. Just as all Americans have the right to a public education to help them in their future careers, they should have the…

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• Based on everything else the government has made illegal, it only makes sense that both fast food and alcohol be illegal too. I was attempting to use sarcasm in my argument. I (of course) do not personnaly believe alcohol or fast food should be illegal, but, I do think that…
• FIRST I WILL TALK ABOUT FAST FOOD! One study has indicated that an abuser's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after eating fast food. The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from fast foods effect on blood pressure and heart rate and…

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• With many thanks to sky_ace25 for his continued interest in this subject and his observations regarding the possible consequences of implementing a law designed to crack down on obese customers who behave anti-socially in restaurants. Some of these observations, however, are…
• I don't really know what a "food disorder" is but guess it would be when an obese goes into a restaurant intending to order the poached salmon with green salad but when the waiter comes he mistakenly orders a 28oz porterhouse steak with fries instead! Otherwise my opponent may…

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• Ok I give up. I got nothing. Good debate.
• Nice reasoning. But plants aren't that special. It's bad to eat plants but it ain't a living creature is it. When you kill it does it make sounds of pain. No plants don't because plants don't feel pain. Animals do. There living things and plants are too but there not that…

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• he wait times that Canada might experience are not caused by its being a single-payer system. Wait times aren't like cancer. We know what causes wait times; we know how to fix them. Spend more money. Our single-payer system, Which is called Medicare (see above), Manages not to…
• Health care is a right in canada australia, The netherlands switzerland china oh hell most of the civilized world, They have manged in most cases to do this without eliminating market forces or innovation, Ad health out comes in the uk and germany etc are better people live…

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• The topic I have chose to debate is the need for Uiversal Healthcare. This is an extremely volatile issue, due to our way of life in the United States. We live in a society based on free enterprise, and free choice. While at the same time we are one of the richest countries on…
• Restate all arguments... (this is really annoying...) *sighs*

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• I understand what you are trying to say, and I agree, to an extent, but I think you're missing the point, which can be summed up with your own statement:You said "parents are not present in a child's life as much as they used to be. And obesity is rising because kids are…
• I have provided information and references which explicitly shows how the behavior of parents directly influences the child in three separate areas, and you have responded with claims to the contrary, but have not presented any evidence to support it. In fact, you have stated…

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• Even we think that diet helps us to clean our stomach, they need this goods which we exclude from food. We should eat what we wants but in measure that will not gain weight and to do exercises and also our organism can clean If we eat a little bit, our stomach can clean If…
• Researches showed that diet is harmful and fast decrease and the subsequent fast set of weight increase risk cardiovascular заболеванийю It is impossible to keep to a diet all the time, without doing harm to the organism.

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• Would shift the onus from profitability to public benefit.
• Would cut overall healthcare spending.

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• While I agree with my opponent that I only talked about in public places, I thought it would be evident that the damage done by cigarettes is a detriment to persons. Like I previously stated, there are 480,000 deaths a year due to firsthand smoking. There comes a point where we…
• First and foremost, I accept you challenge. On many points, I agree with you. Every single persons rights are important, and a government restriction on what we can and can't do is a terrible idea. I think that people should do what makes them happy. But let me ask you this. If…

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• Before I begin my opening statement, I would like to address the claims con made regarding my conduct. First off, my views on socialism are completely irrelevant to this debate. Furthermore, I can identify myself as a socialist even though this topic somewhat conflicts with…
• RulesRound 1: Rules, position clarification, and definitions if needed. Round 2: Opening statements (Limited to outlining facts)Rounds 3 and 4: Evidence/Rebuttals. Round 5: Closing statementss (Limited to restating and summarizing evidence from rounds 3 and 4. You can also…

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• Protection against unwanted pregnancy is a medical necessity because it must be prevented at all costs, certain women under grave circumstances cannot physically, mentally or emotionally carry the burden of reproduction and as long as their bodies are capable of conceiving a…
• Birth control should be covered because its a medical necessity for women. Viagra is covered for men because its seen as being medically necessary to treat men with erectile dysfunction but women who have certain forms of vaginal cancer are not being covered for birth control…

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• (I'll begin with rebuttals. And then I'll present my closing argument.) Rebuttal 1: Con said, "Most people being incarcerated are not even worth the money they are draining from the system were they to get out, and certainly not worth the money for medical treatment." What a…
• (In the previous round, Pro and Con were supposed to present arguments in support of their respective positions. This round was for rebuttals. However, I cannot offer rebuttals this round because Con forfeited the last round. So, I will make an additional two points in support…