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Mara, Kevin School Nutrition

Good nutritional habits start in childhood. Students can eat one or two meals in school. However, over the years school lunches have become less healthy. By providing our students with unhealthy foods we are setting them up for serious health problems. Action must be taken to serve the health of students. Roughly 17% of children and adolescents are obese making it clear that the issue of pediatric cardiovascular disease is an important cause. For example, when these children get older, they will have a much better risk of contracting diseases such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, heart attacks, and other cardiovascular diseases. By changing the fatty cholesterol filled diet in the school systems to healthy, fresh ingredients, we will be giving these children and the world a better future.

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