Teenager1mom

In My Own Words

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! My pet peeve is the food that is served in the school canteen. America is always complaining about the obesity in children! yet it doe's next to nothing to educate them (in the best years to educate them!) about the importance of what type of fuel in the way of food that you eat is necessary to promote a healthy lifestyle for life. How the importance of a well balanced and nutrional diet is clinically and medically proved to improve brain cells, behaviour problems,maintaining a good phyiscal state and lower cholesterol. What do they do, they instal all of these awful vending machines, which all they do is line the pockets of the manufacturers and the school itself but all this does for the kids is set them up for unhealthy choices. They serve daily masses of over produced meals straight from the micro-wave to the plate! and then they expect them to eat it as fast as they can in the little time that they give them for a lunch break!. England has now turned its back on vending machines and fast food for lunch. Like the rest of Europe they have gone back to freshly prepared meals from scratch every day, with a huge choice of fresh vegatables and fruit in every meal. A young celebrity chef, fondly known as The Naked Chef (Jamie Oliver), is a young man who took on the British Government and won! he wanted all the junk out and back to the ways of made from scratch meals made available to the kids in all ages. He faced great adversity from the government and the ladies employed to cook these meals. Believe it or not, most of the ladies in the kitchens did not know how to cook, he had to set up courses for them to learn to cook! they knew absolutely nothing about nutrition, most of them could not boil and egg! all they knew was how to open a packet and put it in the oven/microwave. Passsionate about this he carried out medical studie, using a selection of schools mainly in London to prove his theory that healthy eating made a difference. The results were astonishing, the teachers were astounded to see such improvements in the children's attention span and how the less behaved children started to change for the better!. The goverment had to listen, Jamie also had all the parents on his side because they also noticed a difference at home. Obese kids started to lose weight and had more energy to join in more exercise programs. Come on America, as parents lets start by boycotting the canteens, lets send our kids to school with no money for lunch, lets send them with healthy packed lunches, sure they will protest but they always will protest. Its up to us to be the poineers! Lets rally to get the schools and government to listen! This brings me onto my next point! Lets make physical education mandatory. Again, in Europe it is, even though its only a few hours a week in some schools. These kids are being set up to be phyiscally lazy. Granted, some will do sports on their own, there are however too many kids who need persuading to do any type of physical workouts. I am a prime example of the latter....I have to be encouraged to do any sports, my fittest time ever was during my time in the military, I never was so healthy. I did ten years in the military and had about 3 weeks in total in 3 years off work through illness. As soon as I left the miltiary and cut down on my exercise, well that when I noticed more doctors appointments and the less I do the more I visit the medical centers!!

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