what America is providing its children can almost hardly to be considered food. There’s also a notable difference in the amount of vegetables and whole grains offered among other countries compared to the US (breaded chicken nuggets hardly seems to count). According to Sweetgreen: “Did you know that on a typical day, 32 million children in the U.S. eat cafeteria food? Or that most of these students consume over half of their daily calories at school?” And they aren’t kidding. Millions of American children rely on school lunches as their only big meal in the day. It’s bad enough that kids are being served processed junk as one of their meals, but when it’s their only one? The health risks for children in such scenarios skyrocket. If you think Sweetgreen is being unfair to American lunches, a quick search of Twitter yields an nearly infinite amount of examples of American school lunch failures. #Memphis school lunch is chicken and waffles because #Memphis pic.twitter/vnEnePNWAc — Ed Arnold (@MBJArnold) January 7, 2015 dog food or school lunch?? u decide @MichelleObama pic.twitter/qLexJIRAp8 — brooke richards (@bl_richards) January 6, 2015 @MikeBloomberg @billclinton nyc school lunch post Bloomie- sugary icie, fries, burgers, cookies pic.twitter/twymBmoikW — Nikki Khosla (@nikkikhosla) December 22, 2014 The meals may occasionally satisfy an American teen’s taste for sugar (and even meet the bare minimum nutrients required by law), but they aren’t doing wonders for a child’s growing body.
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