Persuasive Essay On Unhealthy School Lunches

You are a 2nd grade student. You walk down to the cafeteria and look at the menu. You see that chicken nuggets are for lunch. Since you are in second grade you think it's fine and order lunch. The truth is that the lunch is anything but fine. About 67% of adults are obese. That is more than half the country! Chances are you know someone who is overweight. There are many fingers to blame when it comes to the causes. One of which being extremely unhealthy school lunches. We can do something about this increasingly severe problem. If we teach children to eat healthy and make healthy choices then we might be able to stop this. Schools across America are serving horribly unhealthy and under nourishing lunches.
First of all students should have …show more content…
No! We can change this but, it needs to start in schools. Schools are serving lunches that will lead children to become overweight. When you are constantly eating tons of sodium, carbs and sugar. According to, “One Green Planet”,“68% of adults in the United States are now overweight. If grown adults can’t make the right choices to keep themselves healthy now, how can we expect children to choose healthy items when there are also unhealthy `favorites as well?” First of all, 68% of adults are obese. That number has more than doubled since 1960. That probably happened because kids have grown up eating fattening food. Now they are adults and overweight. If schools keep serving children this kind of food the country will become more obese than ever. Even when the children grow up and aren’t eating school food anymore they will almost be addicted to it. They won’t know any better to make the right decisions when it comes to healthy eating. Schools are brainwashing children into thinking that the food that they have been eating all their life is healthy and that is the exact reason our country is as obese as it is.Thus schools have been brainwashing children into thinking that the food they eat every day is good for