Super spicy chips and snack foods have come under attack as being unhealthy, with certain school districts even going so far as to ban some brands from their schools. But now doctors say there's another reason spicy junk food should be avoided: It can result in a trip to the emergency room. Emergency room doctors said they were seeing kids and some adults coming into the ER with gastritis, an inflamed stomach lining, or other stomach ailments after eating bags of spicy snack foods.
Los Angeles-based pediatrician Dr. Martha Rivera sees
five to six children with gastritis daily, saying she serves a community that loves to eat "the hot spicy, not real foods" that cause these kinds of problems. Pediatricians nationwide claim the hot Cheetos and other spicy snacks are leading to unnecessary emergency room visits. Several school districts including ones in Southern California have banned the snacks because they lack nutritional value.
Please help me stop this from occurring. Children don't have the capacity to understand the damage that this can cause and shouldn't be to blame. The schools and the distrcts food distributers are the one who should be held responsible for providing our children with the knowledge of selecting healthy choices if parents aren't there to guide them. Please help by signing my petition and save our childrens health. If they can't make educated decisions, someone needs too.
