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Healthy and Unhealthy Foods

4 Pages 932 Words March 2015

In our current generation, people live in a world with a profusion of fast food and not enough organic food. Since they have been exposed to these fast food industries, they are becoming unhealthy. In addition to the obesity epidemic rate increasing, our educational system attempts to teach us about these complications. However, they still fail to realize the importance of health. In order to begin our reformation for better health, society must start off slowly towards change, specifically our institution for educating children of the school lunch programs. To begin with reforming the school lunch programs, schools should have students learn about nutrition. Furthermore, to learning about the growth of obesity and nutrition, we should record the amount of calories eaten. To help with the calorie count, we should hire chefs to help control calorie consumption. Following up with the calorie counting, we should make eating healthier fun. Student obesity exists due to the lack of education appliance to their everyday life to being healthy, because of many fast food temptations and absence of motivation to exercise. The potential ideas that is about to be presented will be the answer to the dilemma of obesity.
School lunch programs should make it a requirement for students to take a nutrition class. If students were to learn about the devastating results of junk food, then students would be motivated to consume healthier food. As a result, the demand for a healthy lifestyle will cause the demand to change school lunch programs to increase. Moreover, having calorie counts in school lunch programs will help students become more aware of their daily consumption of calories and avoid over consuming. To help with calorie counting, hiring chefs can help serve certain proportional lunches to students. Lastly, we should make eating healthy fun and have the students more involved in eating healthy lunches. For example, having “Fruit Fridays” w...

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