Food Fight
By: Kelly D. Brownell
Chapter:Junk Food 101: Schools, commercialism, and unhealthy Eating

This chapter was a good reading because it talked about how students and schools do not realize what the effects of all the junk food they have is causing. In the book Brownell says that the schools are starting to look like 7/11's. She says how a majority of schools have vending machines that are filled up with junk food and soft drinks. These foods can also be called la carte foods. Which is foods that are not part of the core school lunch. She believes that kids decide to eat unhealthy because of all the unhealthy options that they are surrounded with. One school all went to McDonalds and had a fundraiser there and helped make the food and sell it. This is called "Food as a Fundraiser". She says that what parents see on a school menu is actually most likely not what the children are eating. They have to much of a variety to settle for some of the actual bland school food. Fewer than 15 % of school children get adequate servings of fruits and vegetables.