Mine is!
Chips, pizza, doughnuts and fizzy drink rule the canteen with a few cheese and floppy lettuce sandwiches pushed to the side still there from yesterday. I’m a 12 stone young man of 16 from Cornwall. At my canteen crowds of children ranging from the age of 11- 16 flock to the counter money in hand. Health hazards being sold like hot cakes to over weight unhealthy children with sugar pumping through their veins. All a result of a bad menu, with not enough healthy food available and not enough promotion for them.
A high percentage of this country is over weight and the numbers are going up and up. Being in a rural area like mine we do not have a noticeably high level of obesity. However TV programs in urban areas show large percentages of people over weight.
The only solution to this is to:
| • | Campaign about it to someone important in your school and let them know that you are doing |
| • | Keep on about it |
| • | Boycotting the canteen |
| • | Getting as many people to join your boycott as you can |
From now on I will be eating healthy food. If the school cannot provide it I will get it from elsewhere, either from home or a shop. Another key aspect of a healthy life is to do exercise so I will be walking the 20-minute walk to school from now on.
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