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        Recollecting to the Tang Dynasty in China, "plump equals to beauty" is pervasive cognition among the emperor's concubines. In order to attract the emperor, these women found the most rapid mean to gain weight--consume lots of sugar. While people having desserts and fruits, the ingredient sugar insides of these foods will convert into energy and fat. However, nowadays a large proportion of the people throughout the world have the affordability to have enough daily food. the repercussion of this colossal change result in the transfer of people's conception towards beauty-- having a slim and fit body. The daily sugar need for an adult is 30 to 40 gram, however, a bottle of 330 gram cola contains 35 gram of sugar in total. That means drinking a can of cola has already met the daily necessity of sugar. That leads to my opinion that school cafeteria should stop selling soft drinks and other high sugar drinks.

        First of all, surplus sugar will lead to different kinds of chronic disease, such as diabetes and osteoporosis, and will increase the rate of getting heart diseases. Once you get addicted to sugar, you will never get rid of it, it is just like a 'drug addiction'. While we are consuming sugar, a kind of neurotransmitter which is called Dopamine will be released. Dopamine will make you feel happy,  which was fine. However, excess assimilation of sugar will cause surplus release of dopamine which will actually cause cons to human body. People will get more easily irritated and became more sensitive. As a result, sugar is not actually as harmful as the drug, the reason why people addicted to sugar is that they enjoy the pleasurable feeling while they are eating sugar, that gradually leads to sugar "overdose" and finally cause damage to our body. Everything which cause health problems  should be prohibited by people. 

       Second,  it is obvious that free soft drinks and high-sugar drink were provided by most of the schools in America, including elementary schools. We all know that students under the age of 18 are lack of self-dicipline. So if we provides teenagers the opportunity to drink high sugar drink whenever they want, it equals to letting them consume excess sugar everyday and thus cause health problems. For example, most of the high schools in America, students can grab as many unhealthy beverages as they want, and teachers won't emphasize the harm of sugar because they themselves are addict to the soft drinks! As a result more, and more teenagers are addicted to sugar since they were young.

       Consequently, I think school should not provide soft drinks and other high sugar beverages due to the damage to people's health. If you want to get rid of the excess consuming of daily sugar, I highly recommend you to try Kombucha, a kind of drink which has a similar taste with other sweet sparkling drinks, but it is much more healthier.

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