Are school meals really benefiting our health or possibly making it worse? What most people may already know by now is that the meals we eat while at school were either thawed or reheated. Which makes some of us question if the school lunches are really helping us out with our health. It just may be making our health worse than what it already is.
“More than 30 million children trundle through school cafeteria lines every day in the United States and thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which took effect in 2012, they are no longer served greasy pizza, salty French fries and sauced up chicken wings”(Murphy, par 1). Ever since this act came out in 2012, it did take into a little effect meaning it didn’t fully work because we are still …show more content…
The older we get, the higher the percentage was raised of fast food being distributed to our schools lunch program. This means that most high schools in California are being fed lunches that were bought from fast food places and have a high amount of calories causing more of the students to eat unhealthy meals and possibly causing obesity in young adults. Even if we didn’t eat the meals that were given at schools, we would probably starve ourselves while at school causing us to crave meals that are salty and deep …show more content…
I asked about 25 people, “If you had the money, would you choose to go off campus everyday”(Survey)? Over three quarters of the people I asked all said that they would because the food being served to us at school isn’t enough to fill us up. Some of them even said that they won’t eat at school because it isn’t something they could bare the taste of. Along with that question, I also asked them, “If schools added the option of healthy food along with unhealthy food, would you choose the healthy option”(Survey)? Almost all of them said that they would choose the healthy option. These people that would choose the healthy option were the people that genuinely want to eat healthier but were never given a choice because there was always unhealthy meals served to
“More than 30 million children trundle through school cafeteria lines every day in the United States and thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which took effect in 2012, they are no longer served greasy pizza, salty French fries and sauced up chicken wings”(Murphy, par 1). Ever since this act came out in 2012, it did take into a little effect meaning it didn’t fully work because we are still …show more content…
The older we get, the higher the percentage was raised of fast food being distributed to our schools lunch program. This means that most high schools in California are being fed lunches that were bought from fast food places and have a high amount of calories causing more of the students to eat unhealthy meals and possibly causing obesity in young adults. Even if we didn’t eat the meals that were given at schools, we would probably starve ourselves while at school causing us to crave meals that are salty and deep …show more content…
I asked about 25 people, “If you had the money, would you choose to go off campus everyday”(Survey)? Over three quarters of the people I asked all said that they would because the food being served to us at school isn’t enough to fill us up. Some of them even said that they won’t eat at school because it isn’t something they could bare the taste of. Along with that question, I also asked them, “If schools added the option of healthy food along with unhealthy food, would you choose the healthy option”(Survey)? Almost all of them said that they would choose the healthy option. These people that would choose the healthy option were the people that genuinely want to eat healthier but were never given a choice because there was always unhealthy meals served to