American Girl Says...

In Danielle's article, "Should the US Government take control of our children's nutrition? YES YES YES!!!" , she discusses the Child Nutrition Bill and how it should definitely be passed. I absolutely agree with my fellow colleague and feel as though we have needed something like this for quite some time! America isn't at the TOP of the 10 fattest countries in the world, but we are close enough. The United States is number 3 with 66.7% of our population being overweight. I'm not implying that we should all look like the stick-figures on the cover of magazines, but being overweight is simply unhealthy. If children don't learn to be conscious of what they eat now and how to properly take care of their bodies, it will be much more difficult as they get older. As Danielle said, "it is a lot harder to break bad habits and form good ones." I remember in middle school our options for lunch usually consisted of fried chicken fingers and french fries but on Monday's we had Taco Bell tacos, Wednesday was Pizza Hut day, and Friday's we got Chick-fil-a sandwiches. As you can see, healthy options weren't even available to us at school. Of course bringing your own lunch was always an option but we had to leave at 6:30am to make it to school every morning, it was far easier for my mom to hand us $5 and on our way then worrying about making lunches before she had to make it to work herself. I think passing a bill to ensure healthier choices at school and simply making children aware will improve our countries health overall. Who knows, maybe sooner than later we won't be dubbed the FATTEST country (even though we are number 3)!