People have tried and failed to stay fit and healthy due to their desk-bound lifestyle and hunger for cheap, fast, and unhealthy food. The current system we have in high school students ' lunch is in need of revision. I plan to clear up the problems we currently face, and the ways we can mend it. The problems we have are the funds for foods, the actual food itself, and the low budget kitchens,
The first issue is the money the schools are given to provide healthy lunches for students. The budget is insufficient to provide healthy foods. The budget is adequate if the food schools want to provide kids are low in quality and unhealthy. If we dive further into this issue, it shows that schools selling low-quality food is interested more in profit than health. “Their mission is not public health, but profit, so they’ll continue to sell the health damaging food that’s most profitable.” The fix for this is simple let the government step in and say provide healthy foods if schools don 't they will be fined.
The second issue is that the food that the school is selling is not healthy at all. In the cafeteria, there are chips, gummy bears, gummy worms, brownies, pizza, and microwaved foods. All the blame can 't go to the schools because they do not get enough money, but where they can definitely get the blame is not making better
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School kitchens are not adequate to prepare healthy food for students, the kitchen is using basically microwaves to just pass out microwaved food. So we need to raise money to pay for kitchens. The solution is simple, let 's tax the Gatorade at our school “California, for example, could bring in $1.5 billion a year with a 1 cent per ounce excise tax on sugar sweetened drinks, he said.” If we tax 10 percent we could achieve the proper funds to get an up to date kitchen faster. After the kitchen is done the school could use the money from taxing Gatorade to get healthy