With primaries consisting of absolute imbeciles to rising unemployment rates, America’s plate is growing with an abundance of problems and not enough of an appetite to solve them. However, the most we have on our plate that we just cannot seem to burn off alongside our other dilemmas? Food. In a country bustling and hustling with activities, it is difficult to focus on the smaller picture: children. Childhood obesity is not the next Loch Ness Monster, it is not the next black and blue or gold and white dress, it is not an embarrassing childhood memory. Most importantly, it is not a phase that will fade out: it’s an epidemic that will kill first our children, then our nation. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a crucial factor to the alarming rise of childhood obesity from 1946 to today. America is notorious for their enemies, yet a bigger enemy …show more content…
Working with the United States Department of Agriculture, nutritional standards were set up in order to bring children back to a healthy, nourished state. However, as time wore on, so did the bodies of children in addition to the nutritional necessities to ensure the best quality of life. What kids needed in 1946 and what kids will need in 2016 are further disparated. Though the need for change was exhorted, execution never took place, not from the beginning, not now, and if we aren’t careful, not ever. Some of the basic, yet detrimental flaws fail to be eradicated: the integration of junk food into today’s society, the necessity for quick and speedy answers, thus resulting in the use of canned and processed food, and even the negative stigma associated with vegetables that plagues the minds of many clueless, naïve toddlers. Though they may seem like the average problem in the typical American household, they are also the problems that get confronted in the cafeteria for millions of children around the