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Americans spend more than $100 billion on fast food every
year this amount is much more than we spend on personal computers
or on new cars. According to recent report one out of every
three Americans is overweight
or obese. So how much is fast food to blame?
According to the Government guidelines,
school lunches are healthier than they have ever been. What
kids can get out of school vending machines has even changed.
But getting kids to stay in the school cafeteria is another
issue entirely.
It could be almost any school lunchroom in
the country. There are burgers, fries, and low-fat cheese
pizza, chicken or cheese sandwiches. There's also milk, yogurt,
fruit and salad.
The U.S. Agriculture Department considers
those kinds of offerings to be healthy. But when the lunch
bell rings at Chicago's Lane Tech High School, most students
lunch elsewhere.
Some of the school's students haven't seen
the school cafeteria in years, NBC5's Nesita Kwan reported.
Instead, they choose places like a restaurant with a 50s theme.
The school is a so-called open campus. Only
freshman must stay inside during lunch hour.
One student said that "We usually come
here three or four days out of the week".
Students' other options include five fast-food
restaurants within one block of campus, including a McDonald's
and a Popeye's.
Popeye's own nutrition chart says one meal has 1,070 calories
-- nearly half the government's recommended daily amount.
The 60 grams of fat is about all the fat a person is supposed
to have in a day, and the 2,870 milligrams of sodium far exceeds
the daily quota.
Ultimately, the kids choose. And in the cafeteria line, some
are getting an "A" in nutrition.
"I have basketball tryouts today, and I want to have,
like, endurance," one student said of his healthy choices.
Source:http://www.nbc5.com/health/10310866/detail.html
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