Food+Revolution

The United States is the most obese nation in the world as proven by public health statistics. Due to the connivance public schools have been forced to serve food such as pizza, fried chicken daily. There’s nothing worse than the way people serve kids this unhealthy food. I think that every school should serve healthy, fresh foods instead of giving the kids the choice of the unhealthy food. With the choice of having unhealthy food, kids can get, diabetes, heart disease and many other diseases they can die from, at such an early age. Jamie Oliver is on a mission to solve this crisis.

The problem is that the schools are serving unhealthy, processed food. This is unhealthy food soaked in oil and is being sold to most kids who buy lunch from the school system. The kids don’t know what healthy foods are, but are very clear of the bad ones. They would rather have the processed food rather than the healthy food made from scratch, because they think it taste better. Usually this is the case because the students haven’t tried it and don’t intend on doing so. “Young kids are eating unhealthy food that leads them into being unhealthy when they get older.” Another problem is that kids aren’t being educated about making healthy choices by their parents, so they rely on public schools to do so.

The cure for this horrible habit, wouldn’t change things over night, it could take awhile. The way for this to all change, the adults would have to agree, that this isn’t what they want for these kids, and to change their diet around and stop serving horrible foods at the schools. “We need to address the food situation at schools.” They need to give them more nutrients instead of processed food. They need to spend a little more time and effort on the kid’s lunches, instead of always taking the easy way out. Schools need to take more time, and properly educate their students. In order to help this problem, Jamie Oliver goes to a school located in L.A and attempts to educate the children about where there food comes from to change their eating habits.

The problem with healthy lunches is even though it was for the health of the students is most of the food is being thrown away. The reason why is because after giving the kids the choice of eating unhealthy food, they won’t like the healthy food. I think the problem is that the food there serving is often filled with sugar, as in flavored milk served with lunches and breakfast. If schools were to stop serving this unhealthy food, all kids would be miserable. I think it would be a better to keep the same foods but make them healthier.

To summarize, many students eat the unhealthy food that the school program provides. This is slowly raising the risk of obesity in America. Students haven’t had the opportunity to try new healthy foods, so they have they have become used to the junk food. Due to the efforts of Jamie Oliver schools have been forced into serving healthy foods. However some students don’t like the idea of changing their food choices, so this causes schools to lose funding and in some cases they go back to serving the unhealthy foods. With the new foods in the cafeteria, students find other ways to get there unhealthy foods, to please their appetites. In conclusion, I think that even though, students have a right to eat whatever they want, schools should be forced to serve the healthy foods and not give the students a choice and serve the good foods to meet the health and nutritional demands of the new generation.