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Obesity Linked with food in American Schools

Obesity Linked with food in American Schools By Mahvisha Kanwal What’s the issue?                               In USA, elementary and primary schools takes the responsibility of providing a free lunch facility to the students. Although all of the schools have maintained the quality of food, but according to a recent study, almost one third of all the children and youth are considered as over-weight. The basic cause of this issue is that, the nutritional value of food is not being kept in mind by the school community. Another issue of increasing rate of obesity is that the schools food department attract the children by making yummy fast food which is for sure not healthy for the children. That’s why children like to eat food from the school cafe rather to bring from home. According to WhatsForLunchNYC.com , a New York City-based website dedicated to overhauling the city’s lunch system, school lunches are in dire need of a health makeover: “In a typical week, elementary