Latihan: Evaluasi teks Bahasa Inggris 2

Text: Let's take sugary drinks out of school canteens

(1) Walk into almost any school canteen at break time and you will see the same thing: students holding bottles of sweet tea, soda, and flavoured milk. In my view, this is one of the easiest health problems our schools could solve, and they should solve it now.

(2) The facts are not difficult to find. The World Health Organization advises that adults and children should get less than 10% of their daily energy from free sugars. A single 500 ml bottle of sweet tea often contains 25 to 35 grams of sugar, which is about half of that limit for a typical teenager. When these drinks are sold every day just a few steps from the classroom, it is no surprise that many students drink one or two of them before lunch.

(3) Some people argue that students will simply buy sugary drinks outside the school gate. That may be true for a few of them. However, habits are shaped by what is easy. If the canteen sells cold water, plain milk, and fruit at good prices, most students will choose what is in front of them.

(4) Others say that removing sweet drinks takes away students' freedom. But schools already make many rules for students' health and safety: students cannot smoke on school grounds, and they cannot leave during lessons without permission. Choosing what a canteen sells is not the same as controlling what students drink at home.

(5) My cousin's school removed sugary drinks last year, and now nobody in her class is overweight. If every school followed this example, obesity among Indonesian teenagers would disappear within a few years. Our canteen should be the next to make the change.