Food+Revolution+Essay

In most schools across the nation, kids everywhere are being served the most unhealthy foods that they can have. America is the number one most obese country in the world. We are all being exposed to unhealthy, fatty and processed foods all the time, starting in our school lunches. Slowly but surely, our nation is dying because of our leniency to our own health.

“If a child isn’t taught what real food is, where it comes from, and how to make it into a tasty yet affordable meal, how can we expect these kids – our future – to know what they are doing to their bodies?” Jamie Oliver thinks that most kids don’t know what they are doing to themselves. Kids in America don’t have the knowledge of what they are putting into their bodies. With this lack of knowledge, all they care about is how good the food they are eating tastes. All they think is that when they are hungry, they will eat anything that is given to them. “They are likely to live a shorter life than their parents and die from an obesity-related disease.”

This problem with America and obesity is a problem that can be resolved if we can put a little effort into it. When Jamie Oliver went to talk to the students in LA about what they are doing to themselves in the long run, “They soaked up the knowledge, and told me how it shifted their perspective – in only one hour. It doesn’t take much. But it takes more than nothing.” Most of these kids knew about diabetes and other obesity-related diseases because their parents and other people they knew suffered from this disease. Educating kids on how these diseases came to be, really opened their eyes and let them know that eating the unhealthy food they are served will ruin their futures.

Most kids, when exposed to more healthy alternatives in their school lunches, find the food tasteless and rarely eat any of it. Some students petitioned, “We the students of Roosevelt High School, would like to be served food that we can enjoy eating, rather than the ‘healthier’ food that we just throw away.” Although Jamie Oliver had good intentions, the population of kids in America still doesn’t prefer to eat tasteless, bland healthy foods over delicious, fattening unhealthy foods. Many kids just bring lunches from home,