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Essay / Let's Really Reform Our Schools By Anita Garland
Having different foods can affect a child's health. There's milky, cake, cookies, pizza and let's just add some fries and call it lunch. Don't forget the sugary drinks, tea, soft drinks and milk that you choose not to drink. Students returned to class after twenty minutes and were hungry at the end of the day. Garland said, “Instead, we allow school cafeterias to distribute the same junk food that kids could buy at any mall” (621). There has been so much junk food and soft drinks in schools that it is making students' health dangerous and a distraction to their education. Garland said students fill up on fat, salt and sugar rather than fruits, whole grains and vegetables. Schools should focus on health and a well-balanced diet. By having students eat healthily, we can increase their energy and their ability to learn. That being said, when I was in high school, I ate nothing but junk food for three years. When Michele Obama changed the school lunch law, my end-of-year meals changed. It was nothing but healthy food like whole grains, no sweets, two scoops of fruits and vegetables. In Odessa, they had a school store full of junk food that would run out by fourth period. When the law came into effect at school there were only baked chips and replaced with other nutritious baked foods or we had nothing at all. The drinks dispensers have been replaced