Food+Revolution+essay

In the United States we are facing a huge problem with obesity. For a long time our schools were serving junk food for breakfast and lunches and had sodas in

vending machines. Since times have changed and so much of our nation has become obese they have changed the menus so they serve healthy food now at schools. The kids do not agree with the change in menus and schools are having trouble having them adapt to the change.

The main problem that we have to try and fix is that there are so many adults and kids that are obese because of their unhealthy eating habits that they have become so used to. “Education need to be more focused on nutrition in schools-” Says Ms. Cherin who was a leader for a school in LAUSD. “‘we need to address the food issues at schools.’ she says ‘If not we are failing our kids.’” She is right by saying that, if schools sit around and feed kids unhealthy food that could eventually lead to health issues later in life, then yes, you are failing kids.

There is a very simple cure to this; really all you need is to be willing to commit to the cure. That right there is the problem. So many people aren’t willing to commit to the cure. “’In reality, anybody can eat healthy with just some thought-‘” that statement right there is the truth and if you don’t believe that then, I’m not really sure what is going on in your head. Eating healthy is not something that is really hard to do, you don’t have to go spend a bunch of money just to eat healthy, and you don’t have to starve yourself all you need is to eat something that is good for you. All you need is a little creativity and commitment. If you put forth the effort needed it can be accomplished, no matter what money you have, nor how healthy you are eating at this time. So what is the problem with healthy foods being served at school? It may not even the taste of the food in itself, I bet that a lot of it has nothing to do with the taste, I bet a lot has to do with the look of the food because if you go and look in a school cafeteria a lot of the food doesn’t look appetizing no matter how good it may taste. When a kid goes in to buy food they aren’t going in to buy something they don’t think taste good, or even looks appetizing. “’essentially you’re competing with Mc Donald’s’”. This quote really says a lot. When serving food at school kids want you to live up to the expectations of Mc Donald’s, which is difficult because even their salad has sugar in it, there is nothing healthy served there. Not only that though, when kids think of food they think of something that appeals to many their senses, Taste, sight and smell. For instance when you see billboards with Mc Donald’s food on it., they make it look good, when you walk by Mc Donald’s it smells good, when you eat Mc Donald’s it taste good. They have learned all the ways to make people want to eat their food. Schools on the other hand, not so much, instead of appealing to what people/ kids would want to eat, their food doesn’t smell, look are sometimes even taste good. I have walked in to the cafeteria many times and looked/ smelled the food and I didn’t even want to take the chance of tasting it because it didn’t look good or smell good. Appealing to these senses is very important to what food ge6ts eating compared to what food doesn’t get eaten. “School lunch participation plunge by some 12 percent after un veiling new dishes” even if it’s not the look, taste, or smell, it could simply be the fact that kids want something un healthy in their meal along with the healthy food schools are serving. There is a good possibility that if they added some unhealthy food that kids would want to buy/ eat it more. A little junk food is better than Starving themselves.

My opinion on it is that it is a good thing to have healthy food in school. I also think that we need to have some kind of snack that is delicious and unhealthy because honestly, that’s the only way to have something enjoyable, with a desert for after you eat the healthy stuff. & I think that because having something that is good and unhealthy after filling yourself with healthy nutritious food is okay. They should also make the healthy food they make appealing, even though it is healthy it can still look, taste, & smell good.

All in all they should serve healthy food. BUT, they need to make it appealing and slowly move in to it instead of just taking it away, right away. We do need to help Americas obesity rate, it is a huge issue, but it not something to just right in to. So, in other words, this won’t / can’t happen overnight, but it is possible.