Udaypal Singh
Mrs. Jones
Expository Reading and Writing Course
3 November 2015
Lunch is one of the most important part of our daily diet as a teenager, and it is eaten by almost every student at school in cafeteria. Lunch meal suppose to give students energy to stay healthy and improve the immune system of our body. Is Washington High School providing a nutrition healthy diet? We have been informed in school that in order to maintain good health we have to eat nutritious food, but cafeteria does not provide much healthy food choices to select from at our school. Most of the food in cafeteria is fast food such as pizza, fries, and burger, and it is spreading obesity in teenagers. It is hard to believe that vending machines has much more healthier
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Our school has been neglecting the fact that cafeteria lacks of nutritious food, making hard for students to find vegetables and fruits. Students are getting addicted to fast food due to absence of healthy food in cafeterias. According to the survey at Washington High School 70 percent of the students often go to fast food restaurants for lunch. There is not much choice of healthy food outside of school, but if our cafeteria’s food doesn't change soon and does not provide healthy meal, we can assume this percentage will boost quickly. In their recent work, Waters and Heron have offered harsh critiques of government for failing to feed healthy food to children. In the article “No Lunch Left Behind” Waters and Heron argues that, “ Lunch Program contains some of the same ingredients found in fast food, and the resulting meals routinely fail to meet basic nutritional standard. Yet this is how government continues to ‘help’ feed millions of American schoolchildren, a great many of them from low income household.” It would not be wrong to assert that cafeteria is one of the fast food restaurants located in Washington High School, since it offers more than average calories a teenager student …show more content…
Some people still believe that students should have their own choices for lunch, but students hardly wish to eat healthy food. In order to get a change in cafeteria school have to provide fresh vegetables and fruits so every student can eat on campus. School’s cafeteria should only serve healthy food and must eliminate junk food completely, because if students have to choose from junk food and healthy food, junk food will always be their number one choice. we have to compel their mind to bring change in food. By creating healthy habits now, we can save our next generation from getting trap by dangerous
It has become common today to dismiss how fast food affects health worldwide. In David Zinczenko’s article, “Don’t Blame the Eater,” he emphasizes that fast food chains are contributing to the ongoing concern of obesity in America. In discussion of obesity, one controversial issue in “Don’t Blame the Eater” has been that fast food chains do not combine calorie information with their advertising meals. On the one hand, he asserts his unfortunate encounter with fast food throughout his childhood to further highlight his standing against fast food chain commerce. On the other hand, Zinczenko argues that diabetes in children have had a significant increase in a decade due to fast food.
The author stated that families often relied on school lunch programs as a way for their children to be provided with at least one meal per day. “In most cases these are not parents who are homeless or out of work...most are...minimum-wage workers who can’t afford enough to eat on their salaries.” Anna
“The school lunch program, begun in the 1970s as a result of bipartisan federal legislation, has been by most measures an enormous success. For lots of poor families it’s become a way to count on at least getting one decent meal into their children, and when it disappears it’s catastrophic,” (page 224) In the essay “Schools out for the Summer” Quindlen writes about the problem of hunger in the USA.
The life pursued by the average young person in America is fast paced and scheduled to the point of breaking. As time has progressed this time stretched life style has impacted the need for food that isn’t cooked at home or even at restaurants that cook with traditional methods. This coupled with the swelling number of households with either a single parent or two working parents has increased the reliance on the fast food industry and in turn increased the overweight and obesity rates in the country. In his article “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko addresses this topic and places the blame not on those partaking in these delectable dinners, but in the hands of the fast food industry and their lack of understandable labeling. Zinczenko’s argument is valid and strong due to his equal use of ethos, logos and pathos.
In Anna Quindlen’s essay, School’s Out for Summer, she discusses what a huge problem child hunger has become and how it affects thousands of families across the nation. Anna’s essay informed the reader of how the problem still exists, and how people are taking steps to prevent and end child hunger. Anna provides the reader with evidence from food banks and summer programs that hunger is still a major problem in the United States. “During the rest of the year fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school, and many of them get breakfast too.” Ultimately, this shows that many families across the nation cannot afford to feed their children adequate meals three times a day.
Also, they believe that they should stick to the menu that they have now because the school would be better off making more money on the regular lunch menu, other than than healthier lunch menu that they want to give us. However, students need to be more healthier and stop stuffing their faces with junk food that is not good for them and that is causing severe health conditions. The lunch menu consists of: Blue Raspberry slushies, Hot cheetos, Chicken patties, nice big juicy Hamburgers, Fried chicken, greasy French fries, Grape and Orange sodas, etc. The lunch menu we have is not very healthy at all. The lunch menu that we need to consist of: Mixed Salad, Orange juice, Apple juices, Fruits, Baked chicken, more vegetables ,and sell less snakcs.
In “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko explains that the only affordable meal choice for an American teenager is fast food. Zinczenko recognizes that families consume these food sources because of the numerous McDonald’s restaurants and the lack of grocery stores in the area. Zinczenko argues that “Some fast-food purveyors will provide calorie information on request, but even that can be hard to understand”(464). However, fast-food is not the blame as Zinczenko argues in the article it 's the consumer that is to blame. The consumer has the control to eat what they want.
Determining the healthiness of food being served to students during school lunches is a very important subject. Although eating healthy is important it should not be the only factor contributing to whether or not taking away students favorite school lunches is beneficial. I don't believe that it is a good idea to take away students favorite school lunches and replacing them with all healthy foods is a good idea because of these three reasons. One, the cost of the healthier food, two, the student environment and mood of the school, and three, the fairness to the students whose only meal is the lunch they receive at school.
Dear Mrs. Denk, School lunches are much more important to students than one may think. Healthy lunches help boost students’ immune systems which may be vulnerable to common colds. Without good school meals students may have a difficult time concentrating, which I can say I’ve struggled with myself. Additionally, students from low income families will be promised at least one healthy meal a day, free of charge. If students are surrounded by healthy foods, they’ll want to eat healthier.
Have you ever wondered if you could ever change the school lunches in the Public schools? Well you’re not the only one, many other people thought about changing the way you eat at lunch and started to change it. Some trials have failed but some have succeeded at the trail for their public school. But some administrators what it to come to all schools, for the fact that they are losing money because kids stopped eating lunches at school.
The food students are served is deprived of most of the unhealthy items: such as trans fat, high amount of calories, and others. The students that is probably will not like the food if it made any healthier. If the students do not
To begin with, the taste alone of school lunches is beyond unsatisfactory. The meals provided by public schools are not appetizing. There exists a tangible disconnect between the enticing, nutritious meals advertised on the school board’s menus and what the students actually receive—pathetic portions and lukewarm meals slapped onto a tray. Children’s complaints about school lunches are often seen as trite. However, while common, they are not any less accurate.
“Today approximately 16% of America 's youth are classified as obese,” in that case, changing one meal a day could prevent as much as 6% of America’s youth from becoming obese. The main issue in the cause to start making school lunch the healthy option of a students day is the undeniable fact; people love debilitating foods. Even when you are an infant in the womb, the one, only thing you crave is sugar. The best
This section closes with consideration regarding how fast food has gotten to be fused in numerous state funded schools. Fast-food organizations pay to publicize in schools, while pop organizations offer their item in schools. Schools severely needing financing wind up in a troublesome position of sympathy toward their understudies ' wellbeing and sympathy toward their understudies '
“Don’t Blame the Eater”, written by David Zinczenko, is a short article discussing how fast food is the main cause of childhood obesity. This article came about in relations to two kids filing a lawsuit against McDonalds for making them fat. He begins his piece by sympathizing with these individuals because he used to be like them. Zinczenko then informs the reader of his background and how he fell into the category of being dependent upon quick and easy meals. In an attempt to provide a valid argument, he debates on how kids raise themselves while their parents are at work and that the nutritional values are not labeled upon prepared foods.