SPEECH WRITING

Minyoung kim

Eng 306—speech writing

I'm glad you made it up here on Friday night.  Probably you can have other plans like to go out to eat or go to the movies.  But you come here and we take care about our topic seriously.  I hope we get some motivations for change and share information with this meeting.

My son, john, is 10 years old boy.  He is over 160 pounds.  The doctor was diagnosed his condition by medically obese.  However, John is not treated as a special case because there are so many obese young children.  Look at this graph.  We have the highest percentage of overweight and obese children in the world.  Meaning of the graph is that many numbers of children of America will be obese adults with high possibility.  And obese adults have high risk to get disease like diabetic, heart disease, high blood pressure, and arthritis than normal body weight adults.  We need to think seriously what makes our children fatter and how we are going to treat their condition.

The first, I request changes to schools.  Do you know what kinds of menu in the school cafeteria?  Most of them are junk foods like hot dog, pizza, hamburger and macaroni cheese.  These foods contain a lot of salt and fat.  It makes taste better.  Also these are much cheaper than salad or fruits.  So, children choose unhealthy foods.  I request schools support healthy food with cheaper prices even they cannot make money with it.  And eliminate unhealthy food on the menu.  Schools also require more units with athletic classes or graduate.  I hope our children learn how much pleasure to moving their bodies is.  

Second, I request change to each families. Do you ever find some chips or candies while watching TV or when you are bored?  Well, me too.  And we have seen that our children to act in the same way with us.  They usually stay home to play video games or watch TV and eat what they want.   Unhealthy life style makes them fat!  We should eat healthy food and move more.  The HOPE program helps families to make a healthy eating plan and an activities schedule.  Any families can apply the program.  It is free and helpful.  We should know our little changes can make our children’s future healthier.  

Every day we hear a lot of health information.  So maybe somebody can say that today presentation does not have new information.  However, I hope my speech give you some motivation to change.