Reflective Essay: Divided

During eighth grade, I sat a few seats in front a boy who was one of my good friends. I heard him say my name, so I turned around to ask what he said. He told me nothing, so I turned around and focused on what my math teacher was teaching. About five minutes later, and I heard him say my name and the word fat. I did not turn around because I did not want to make a scene. I sat there and thought about what he said, and just bursted out crying. My teacher asked me what was wrong, and I told him nothing. He gave me a pass, to go see my counselor. We talked about the situation and she asked me if she could bring in the boy that was my friend. I told her no, but she told me that if I do not say anything about it, he might still pick on me. So she …show more content…
An average kids spends about 5 days a week at school, and when I walk in the lunchroom, I see most kids buying candy, chocolate muffins, soda, pizza, chicken nuggets, cookies, and many more. I see maybe about two or three kids who get a salad, burrito with healthy stuff inside, or a sandwich. I am one of those two out of three kids and every once in awhile I will treat myself to having pizza, a bag of hot cheetos, soda, or maybe a candy bar. It’s not good when I see a kid who might be overweight, something unhealthy. Due to the fact that most kids would chose junk food that is very unhealthy rather than eating something that healthily and make them feel good, schools should not sell junk …show more content…
In the article it states that, “More than 40,000 Britons are dying unnecessarily every year because of high levels of salt and fat in their diets.” Some of these deaths were because of heart disease which linked to the consumption of ready meals and processed food. Some examples of ready food could be lasagna, hamburgers, or even corn dogs. For example, Salisbury's lasagna contains 48.1 grams of fat, 17.3 grams of sugar, and 2.5 grams of salt. Ready meals can be very unhealthy. Food factories carry out little or no preparation of raw ingredients, they buy treated ingredients, mainly frozen or dried, from other companies, meat, fish, and vegetables are kept at sub-zero temperature for months, but when the food is thawed and cooked it can be marked as “fresh”, and a ready-meal factory can churn out 250,000 portions a day using 70 different ingredients. Due to the fact that ready-meals are kept in a freezer for months, thawed, cooked, and labeled “fresh, and can contain 70 different ingredients, ready meals that schools put in the oven, microwave, or any type of heating source, it not good for