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Eating healthy has being a very polemic subject in the last fifteen years, especially when children’s health is at stake. Nutritionists, doctors, educators and parents are been searching for alternatives to make children and teenagers more conscious of the importance of the good habits since the beginning of live, considering the growing number of children developing eating disorder.
Schools are responsible to offer good options of food during lunch breaks. Of course, into the actual world the profit is always a concern. However, this is not an issue, I don’t see any problems if the school is interested on that. Therefore, my concern is what king of food the kids are being served. I believe the fast food era is already

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