Is it only me who realizes the extreme hypocrisy of public figures who antagonize teenagers about being overweight yet provide us with lunch menus at school that include fried foods and fattening desserts? I mean, I'm a college student and I was expecting a lot more than what I am currently getting. The only "healthy" foods they offer at my college include:
- Sandwiches which, after continuous consumption, get extremely bland.
- "Home-cooked" meals which usually are accompanied with a nice serving of bone-dry meat.
- Aood from the "Exhibition line" which only serves a good healthy meal maybe once a week.
- Pasta, although this could be considered fattening (high amount of starch).
- And omelets...but who wants to eat an omelet for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Thus, the only alternative for college students is to eat hamburgers --which arguably contain no meat-- and pizza, both of which are extremely high in calories and carbs.
So we're stuck in a hole: We don't want our teenagers to be obese, but the only tolerable food we offer happens to be fattening. Is this only and issue at my college? I don't know that it is, because from what I have heard from my friends at other schools, this is a consistent trend. I'm being charged 1200 dollars for my meal plan...I'm sure the school could have come up with some better tasting, healthier menus than the ones they currently offer. And if not? Maybe they should consider charging just a little more to provide the quality food we need to have a healthy diet. What do you all think?
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