Argumentative Essay On School Lunch
Picture this. A kid walks up to his lunch table at school and says, “Aw man I didn’t have time to make lunch this morning; looks like I'm going to have to buy.”
The student walks up to buy lunch and all he sees are reduced fat items and unappetizing meals. He walks back to his lunch table without anything to eat. The rest of the day he can’t focus in class and he is tired because he didn’t have lunch. The story shows that the kid has the same problem as many students in America do today, he doesn’t have any lunch choices he wants to eat.
The school lunch program is a program in which children in public schools are given low- cost nutritional foods. Currently in America many schools have joined the program and switched their previous lunch options to …show more content…
Savage said, “At least when you eat an unhealthy lunch high in fat and sugar you are getting small amounts of energy, as opposed to not eating anything at all where you could faint because of low blood sugar.” The testimony reinforces the idea that even if a student were to eat an unhealthy lunch like they did before the school lunch changed, it would be better than not eating at all, what many kids are doing since the school lunch changed.
With all these advantages to switching back to old school lunches of course there are disadvantages. Many kids who are eating unhealthily are ending up with health problems like obesity. 1/3 of American kids are obese, and this is due to the fact that they are constantly eating unhealthily. If schools were to serve the food they used to it would just lead to more kids ending up obese and other chronic health issues.
Children who have poor nutrition can end up with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, depression, and obviously they can end up obese. All these things can happen because of eating an unhealthy school
The student walks up to buy lunch and all he sees are reduced fat items and unappetizing meals. He walks back to his lunch table without anything to eat. The rest of the day he can’t focus in class and he is tired because he didn’t have lunch. The story shows that the kid has the same problem as many students in America do today, he doesn’t have any lunch choices he wants to eat.
The school lunch program is a program in which children in public schools are given low- cost nutritional foods. Currently in America many schools have joined the program and switched their previous lunch options to …show more content…
Savage said, “At least when you eat an unhealthy lunch high in fat and sugar you are getting small amounts of energy, as opposed to not eating anything at all where you could faint because of low blood sugar.” The testimony reinforces the idea that even if a student were to eat an unhealthy lunch like they did before the school lunch changed, it would be better than not eating at all, what many kids are doing since the school lunch changed.
With all these advantages to switching back to old school lunches of course there are disadvantages. Many kids who are eating unhealthily are ending up with health problems like obesity. 1/3 of American kids are obese, and this is due to the fact that they are constantly eating unhealthily. If schools were to serve the food they used to it would just lead to more kids ending up obese and other chronic health issues.
Children who have poor nutrition can end up with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, depression, and obviously they can end up obese. All these things can happen because of eating an unhealthy school