Article: "School lunches in France: nursery-school gourmets."

 School Lunches in France 

The article's main point (School lunches in France: nursery-school gourmets by Walt, V. 2010, February) is to compare school lunches in the USA and France and inform the audience about how healthy and prosperous the French lunch system is. The writer compares them nicely and describes how a parent feels about them. 

There are a couple of supplementary messages in this article. For example, in France, students will have healthy food habits and won't become bored with the menu because they get 5-course meals daily, "… including an hors d'oeuvre, salad, main course, cheese plate and dessert" (Walt, 2010, para.3).; these menus don't repeat in 32 days. Also, there is no school vending machine for snacks and beverages. They also included students' parents in the meal system by suggesting what students may eat for dinner. The parents might not know what their kids are learning, but they understand what they eat at lunch. The writer also told the audience in a fun way that Americans wonder how French people can be so trim and fit after taking lots of cheese, cream, and cake. Some thoughts are it must be the wine. The kids learn what to eat and have good food habits before they know how to hold a knife. 

The article's context was that the writer was amazed by the school lunch system; it feels like they wanted to have the same in America, too, because American food habits help people gain weight, which is unhealthy. 

The themes and keywords of this article, such as Good Food Habit, Good Food System in Schools, Eating Healthy, French School, and American School, underscore the importance of nurturing our children's food habits for their overall health. This emphasis should leave the audience concerned and motivated to advocate for healthier school food habits. 

My ideas are not only because of food habits; we should start making fresh for food safety. Food becomes unsafe if we keep it at an average room temperature for 2 hours. After packing lunch, it takes more than 2 hours for the children to eat during their break. If we want a healthy child for our future generation, we must be cautious with our children's food habits. 

Reference:

Walt, V. (2010, February). School lunches in France: nursery-school gourmets. Time

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