Semester 7 Essay- Prompt 35- Some people think that school cafeterias should be required to provide low-fat/ and or vegetarian lunch options to accommodate the easting habits of all students. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position and use specific reasons and examples as support.

       It is mid afternoon all across the country; millions of students file into their cafeteria looking for something to eat at lunch time. School lunches are supposed to be a health choice for several students across the nation but they are not. Certain food choices that are given to children are beef and fried chicken and only an ounce of fruit. With obesity growing within the youth schools should be required to provide children with a low-fat option for lunch to help save millions of children’s lives. If schools were required to provide low- fat lunches to students they help decreases the possibility of the children get diabetes and other life risking illness. On average young children and older spend less time exercising and more time sitting in front of the TV. The older you get the slower your metabolism slows down which makes it harder for your food to break down and easier for you to gain weight. With that in mind I think it is the responsibility of the school and the parents to provide low- fat or vegetarian meals to kids around the nation to better insure their health because children are the future.

       Having health food options in schools show child what type of things are good to eat and also does not get them addicted to fatty foods such as French fries or hamburgers.  Health foods give several children the liberty to live long instead of their parents burying them. Now and days many low-fat foods and vegetarian can be easily have the same taste as any other food on the market. Why schools shouldn’t be required to provide healthier food options to their students when students spend most of their time there studying and learning to achieve in the society today. Health foods such as turkey and skinless chicken can be expense but it helps add more life years into you and become stronger.

      For us as a nation to become better than what we are it all starts with what we eat and give to the future of the nation little children. Schools need to stop giving children high calorie and sugar drinks. And replace those lunches with something better that could help the students grow into health productive citizens who could help the economy. It gets down to the bottom line where the schools need to think about how different foods are slowly killing many kids and decide to fix different things at lunch time like green vegetables that helps build bones. And also try a little more salads and less pizza and short ribs that cause heart attack and other things. School need to stop thinking about the taste for children and start thinking about the health contacts of it and how it help children, or else we will become a society where parents bury their children and not the other way around .