Gross!

• Artist: shannonbookworm14
• Description: A little fact that will totally change your perspective on school lunch. Gross? You have no idea.
• Date: 03/19/2009
• Tags: gross

School lunch. The sound of it makes my stomach turn over, and not in the good way. My first thought is gross. It’s my second thought too. My third thought is the essay that I did in my eighth grade year for language arts class. Still wondering about why I find school lunch so disgusting? You’re about to find out.
AHG! Calories galore! A meal at school has more calories than a meal at Burger King! Gross! A meal of chicken nuggets, a salad, a carton of chocolate milk, a roll of white bread, and a package of barbeque flavored chips comes to a grand total of 1,485 calories. YIKES!
Okay, let’s compare. A large order of fries, a hamburger, and a large Coca-Cola from Burger King has a total of 1,183 calories. For you all out there who aren’t good at math (or who can’t read) that’s 302 calories less than you’re school lunch, which, I might add, you eat EVERY STINKING DAY.
So, why is this gross? Well, I live in Mississippi, the state with the highest obesity rate. People down here are just stocking up on the calories. They devour these high-calorie meals with no intention of exercising them off.
Another reason is that that's just too many calories for one meal. A healthy person shouldn't eat more than 2,000 calories a day. With the school lunch that's almost half of the calories that you should be eating in just one meal!
Not only should you watch the calories, you should also watch things like glucose (sugar), sodium (salt), and carbohydrates. All of these things combined could give you a really hard workout. And possibly type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, sleep apnea, and stroke. Not a good combination.
I'm not saying that school lunch is a bad thing; it's great for people who don't want to lug around a lunchbox or who apply for free lunch because of their gross income. But, if you eat school lunch, just make sure that what you're eating you can burn off with some kind of physical activity.
So don't go and shun school lunch, just make sure that you're burning all of those calories. So, not only will you feel healthy, you'll have a smoking hot bod too. rofl

Comments

[Mighty Isabella]

lol i know exacty what you mean shannon and its not just the fact that we go to the same skool but its also cuz i have to eat the food and i mostly just eat the chips and a tiny bit of my actual food so Yep i know exactly were you are coming from and don't put down on Mississippi remember we live here and i love it so be nice

[Izara of the Desert Sands]

I understand you about the school lunch. I can't eat it, it gets me sick. I like your idea and how informative you got, but if this is true i think you're in the wrong writing arena sweatdrop

[Suicidesoldier#1]

Yeah but calories are good for you, you NEED calories in order to be able to function, and eating less just leads you to have a lower metabolic rate, which leads to gaining fat faster.

So, I eat a lot of calories, but I as well eat a lot of protein and other things. What you want to look out for is eating excess carbohydrates, as all that does it get turned into fat; fatty foods really don't produce more fat usually, like peanut butter for instance...

But I don't quite get why it's gross...