There are over 25 million adolescents in America according to NCCP. This means there are millions of students daily relying on the meals provided by schools. There are kids who don 't know their vegetables because they are not provided at home or school. When I was in elementary and middle school I received school lunches daily. There were absolutely no vegetables or fruits provided other than the occasional grapes or small apple. Children will never know how to eat healthy, unless they are provided with healthy food options. Luckily, my mother cooked healthy meals for dinner every night. I grew up around healthy food at home so as I grew older I began to pack healthy food to school. This did not stop me from witnessing the extremely processed
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In Jamie Oliver’s Ted Talks he speaks about the amount of sugar in one small carton of school provided milk. He states in one day a student drinking milk would have consumed eight tablespoons of sugar. That is three and a half cups of sugar a week, only from school milk. This is such a staggering fact and if you think about it this is such a little detail people do not think of when eating school lunches. This shows that something as little as milk can reap such a huge negative impact to your everyday diet. This is just one example of the unhealthy school provided lunches. All the food provided is fast food such as pizza, small burgers, hot dogs, nuggets, etc. This food is not only unhealthy, but also highly processed, high in fat and sodium, and fast food. AI Art Institutes states, only $2.68 are what schools are given to cover the cost of one school lunch. This money will not only cover the cost of the meal, but also labor, facility, and structural costs. The price of the meals truly show the quality of the food and the size of the meal. If students are shown unhealthy food that is what they will begin to crave. Soon it is what the students will eat not only in school but also at home. If the children are do not have healthy food at home they will not know what healthy food is at
In Jamie Oliver’s Ted Talks he speaks about the amount of sugar in one small carton of school provided milk. He states in one day a student drinking milk would have consumed eight tablespoons of sugar. That is three and a half cups of sugar a week, only from school milk. This is such a staggering fact and if you think about it this is such a little detail people do not think of when eating school lunches. This shows that something as little as milk can reap such a huge negative impact to your everyday diet. This is just one example of the unhealthy school provided lunches. All the food provided is fast food such as pizza, small burgers, hot dogs, nuggets, etc. This food is not only unhealthy, but also highly processed, high in fat and sodium, and fast food. AI Art Institutes states, only $2.68 are what schools are given to cover the cost of one school lunch. This money will not only cover the cost of the meal, but also labor, facility, and structural costs. The price of the meals truly show the quality of the food and the size of the meal. If students are shown unhealthy food that is what they will begin to crave. Soon it is what the students will eat not only in school but also at home. If the children are do not have healthy food at home they will not know what healthy food is at