Food+Revolution+Essay

Jason Dowell Mr. Geib English Period 4 13 February, 2012

I think that we should all use fresh food in all school cafeterias. Giving young kids bad and unhealthy food can lead them to eat unhealthy in the future. In some schools, they serve breakfast pizza and sugary cereals covered with pink strawberry flavored milk. Kids with an unhealthy life style can lead them into diabetes, heart disease and many more that you can die from. Everyone should take action and do something about what their eating because no one likes to be unhealthy and overweight.

The problem is that the United States is very unhealthy and overweight. Young kids don’t even know what fruit and vegetables are. “Young kids are eating unhealthy food that leads them into being unhealthy when they get older.” Children had an 80% obesity rate.” They aren’t getting taught what real food is, where it comes from and how to make it into a tasty yet affordable meal. Some of it comes from their parents and what the parents are feeding and teaching their kids about food. They will go to school and eat chicken nuggets with chocolate milk then come home and eat something deep fried. They will die at a young age or have heart failure, diabetes and much more. Kids would rather eat unhealthy garbage, than eat a healthy nutritious meal.

The cure is to change their eating habit; what’s bad and what’s good for them. “We need to address the food situation at schools.” They need to teach the kids how to eat right and what’s good and nutritious for them. They need to give them more nutrients instead of process food because they are flunking there food habits. Little kids don’t know what’s good and what’s bad for them, but the parents and the teachers do. That’s why they need to take responsibility and give them healthy food so they don’t grow up with an unhealthy life style and be overweight. “In reality anybody can eat healthy with just some thought.” You don’t need to spend a lot of time and money on food in order to make it healthy. You just need to be creative and put some thought into it.

The problem with being healthy is all in the kids and what they like and what they want. Kids like sweet and sugary stuff because it tastes good. “We the students of Roosevelt High School would like to be served food that we can enjoy rather than the ‘healthier’ food we just throw away.” Unhealthier food taste better than healthy food so they are going to pick the unhealthy food. What school has done to fix this problem is they would put fruit out first and have the bowl light up so it would look cool. Also they would change the name of stuff so it would sound more exciting so they will eat it. It’s good that they are doing this but, it still isn’t popular as them eating something bad and unhealthy.

In my opinion I think that they should put healthier food in schools. It’s good because they should start eating healthier because if not they will get fat. Putting stuff in your body that’s not good for you will poison your body. You should take the time to teach your children about food and what’s good and then what’s bad for you. There is nothing wrong with eating healthier the only problem is that no one likes to eat it until it’s too late. Kids have the opportunity to try new healthy foods, so they don’t junk food for the rest of their life.