The Importance Of Fast Food In High Schools

Fast food, whenever someone thinks of that the words like unhealthy, fatty, and greasy pop into people’s heads. For the longest time fast food was been known for being quick and cheaper but over time people have said it is making them unhealthy. However fast food has changed over time. Now companies are including healthier options, trying to put things on the menu for people watching what they eat. Now with all the changes to fast food it is time for high schools to look at fast food to being an option for students to pick instead of just the normal school food. High schools want to sever healthy food to their students, but we should not count out fast food out of that equation. Dan Winters an American portrait photographer, illustrator, …show more content…
With high schools bring in fast food chains students and teachers can check what kind and how much to get to eat. So before lunch people can get their phones out and check what type of food is best for them to eat, since it is different for everyone to someone who works out twice a day before they even have their sport’s workout to someone who sits on the couch everyday eating junk food when they get home. However people have to watch what they eat even at Panera Bread people have to watch out for sticky buns even though it was number one on Healthy magazine survey of a hundred largest fast food chains. Then it comes to portion control. A survey by New York City Health Department studied 6,580 meals bought at fast food restaurants finding out the about 57% of the meals exceeded the 1,500 mg daily sodium level. Showing people have to watch what they order and how much they eat at fast food restaurants, or it will make it …show more content…
So with fast food going into high school people will say that it make students over weight and unhealthy. Then already more than forty present of the students in New York Public schools are overweight and twenty-five present are obese. So even without the fast food chains in school we are all ready dealing with student overweight. The reason for this could be because of vending machines. Ninety-eight present of high schools has a soda machine, candy machine, snack bar, or a store that serves food with high sugar, fat, and salt. So it is not just fast food that could get students overweight. However all the problems could be fix be just pick what the school sell to the students. With vending machines they can put healthier options and with fast food they can bring in companies that have the healthier options. With schools allowing fast food to come into the school it should be up to the schools to pick what the fast food chain sells in to the school to the