Obesity+in+America

Obesity is a huge problem in the world. Our eating habits are outrageously horrible and kids are paying for it. If our older generation is getting fat, then our younger generation is going to copy the mistakes that are placed in front of them. When kids are consuming pizza for breakfast and chicken nuggets for lunch AND dinner something’s got to change. Parents need to step up and show there kids how to eat. Jamie Oliver’s food revolution is going to try and help an elementary school in Huntington to make healthier choices and build better eating routine. He’s putting up a good fight trying to succeed//. “And you can feel the tension in the school cafeteria when Oliver suggest the cooks marinate fresh chicken and make there own salad dressing instead of serving elementary school kids a more convincing ( and as it turns out, more popular) processed menu of “breakfast pizza” and chicken fingers.”//

People just don’t seem to notice that kids are influenced by there parents, and if there parents don’t make the right choices about healthy existing then kids are going to become obese. A big problem is that schools aren’t teaching children on the subject of food in school. They can even answer correctly where honey comes from, they answered a bear? A tree? Maybe bees? Almost every student got that answer wrong. “ //Was it there fault? Absolutely not. If a child isn’t taught what real food is, where it comes from and how to make it into tasty yet affordable meals, how can we expect there kids – our future to know what its doing to their body’s?”// If you can’t obtain some kind of common sense then everybody that looks up to you will end up following in your foot steps and if the worst take place, suffer in an obesity-related disease.

There is no problem with healthy lunches, and people with a problem with it can go get fat. Districts have taken a variety of approaches to get kids to eat healthier. At Roosevelt High School the students quote “//We the students of Roosevelt High would like to e served food that we can enjoy rather then the “healthier”// food that we just throw away” schools are just competing with McDonalds! If all you want to eat is burgers and ice cream then you will indeed become over weight. Since sack lunches from home are nutritionally worse than school lunches. Then start packing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on whole wheat bread and backed potato chips with an apple. That’s not worse than pizza and chicken nuggets.