Dear Editor...How Hot is Your Lunch?

To quote Charlotte P, "Grilled Cheese is the best!" I believe that our school's hot lunches are of poor quality. We should really improve the "hot" lunches at our school to provide a healthy yet delicious option.

The current lunches offered often are received and quickly warmed up. You can often see a splatter of oil, all over the paper the lunches are wrapped in. This is obviously not a healthy choice. A hot lunch program should be implemented to provide for the well being of all the students. Students should have the option to receive good quality, healthy food. This could potentially include a salad bar, including fruits and greens, or home-made quality food products. Something that is not only nutritious but also delicious.

Students are proven to preform better when they are given more of an option to choose from. Although most students would prefer to purchase oily, fattening food, typically that is due to the price of the healthier option. If we can make affordable, yet healthy food, the students may not have to make the unhealthy option.

At this time, American school are trying to reform to push an amendment that requires schools to decrease the amount of fattening foods sold in schools. They see a trend by which most schools are following, a drastic increase of overweight children and fainting children during P.E. Although are school may not particularly follow each of these rules. If you watch as our students return to their home countries and come back, you see an increase of mass since the school did not teach good eating habits. If people are "required" to get the "freshmen fifteen" maybe that is saying something about how eating habits are going down the drain. We need to teach our students to eat well, or else it could potentially lead to poor health benfits now, and later in life.

Help our students to improve their eating habits and teach them a habit that they will continuously learn from and use. Decrease the amount of fatty foods, and increase an awareness to eat healthy.