Mr.Welter
ERWC, period 4
08 April, 2016 When School Does It Wrong There is an old saying, “You are what you eat.” eating healthy is important. It will make you feel healthier; nevertheless, if you are eating bad food, like food containing pesticides, you will feel no better than an insect. In 2016, food companies delivers processed foods to schools all over United States. Students are not eating home cooked meals regularly. Processed food are causing obesities and illnesses, we should provide students with fresh and healthy food without any chemical substances to decrease the number of students who have these problems, and provide mandatory classes to educate students and parents about healthy food choices. Organic food …show more content…
Government noticed how students gain extravagant weights by snacking on junk food, this has been affecting student’s health. In the article “Junk Foods Banned by Federal”says, “ For the first time it will make sure that all food sold in the nation’s 100,000 school are healthier by expanding fat, calories, sugar and sodium limits to almost everything sold during the school day”. School are following the child nutrition law passed by congress in 2010, to improves and transforms school’s foods. Not only they banned unhealthy food, they also provide students alternative healthy foods like organics or need to be cook foods. In the article “No Lunch Left Behind”by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron says,“ But most people don’t realize that very little of this money even goes toward food. Schools have to use it to pay for everything from custodial services to heating in the cafeteria”. Food that school purchased are all processed foods, most of them are frozen; workers in the cafeteria usually unfroze them the day before then put them in a big microway. Since school using most of the money in custodial services, they should purchase healthier food and demand workers to cook food more often than serving students processed …show more content…
However, these classes are not teaching students whatever they are putting in their body affects them. Last year Celebrate Health TV has published a video call, “The Effect of Organic Food”, it was about a family trying to eat only organic foods for two weeks. Before they did the experiment each of the member took an urine test and they found that there are different number of pesticides in their body. After a week, they took another test and most of the pesticides were gone. Jorgen Magner, Swedish Environmental Research Institute said, “ We know very little about long-term effects or eating food treated with pesticides. Especially if you consider that chemicals can be much more harmful when combined together than they on their own.” This show that people are consuming poison foods, they have no idea what they are eating. Even an exper do not know what they are dealing with. School should provide a specific class or meeting for students and parents to provide them facts about processed food and other information, help them make better decision. I worked in the cafeteria since the beginning of last year, the first day I prepared lunch for the students, I was disgusted. I was not able to eat school food for months. All the food was being delivery frozen, but soon I got used to it and started eating school food again. To improve student’s health, school need to feed their