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Some people think that school cafeterias should be required to provide low-fat and/or vegetarian lunch options to accommodate the eating habits of all students. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position and use specific reasons and examples as support. School is a liberal palace that every student can express their opinions and learn something new. Students can wear what they consider is good-looking or suitable, talk anything they think about, even what they prefer to eat. Everyones diet preference comes from their family of origin. If someone is born in an Islamic family, he or she will follow their religious belief, for example, they cannot eat pork and must be observed their fasting months. And this case will also happen in a Buddhist family and Hinduism family. In addition to religion, students may be influenced by their parents too. Such as vegetarian family, they only eat vegetables or fruits; fast food family, which is fond of high-calorie dishes; keen on meat family, meat is essential in each meal, or healthy family, that chooses low-fat and high-fiber diet. Although professional researchers said that balanced diet are important, students still hard to accept if school provides some foods they dont like. So I think school provides low fat and/ or vegetarian lunch is necessary and it will be a trend. A report said, the three ethnically diverse elementary schools in the USA are

suggested to add nondairy beverages to the lunch menu, and low-fat soymilk is that the most popular option. The majority of African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanic-Americans are lactose intolerant. Enriched soymilk has no lactose and almost dont has fat, but it has as much calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin D as dairy milk. This report also told us that Dairy milk is the single largest source of saturated fat in children's diets, according to a National Cancer Institute study. Studies have linked ovarian cancer and prostate cancer to the consumption of dairy products. And I also see a report recently that is about York County school meals are healthier, but still have a long way to improve, Schools across York County offer salad bars and whole grain bread in lunch time. Dietitians think that nutrition lessons will lead children to make healthy choices. Some schools even let students take a second trip through the lunch line for extra helpings of vegetables and fruits. Such efforts are promising, but nutrition advocates say that menus dominated by processed, fast food fare destroy those noble attempts and leave school meals a long way from healthy. In new federal rules are meant to improve school food in the long run. They require schools to double the amount of vegetables and fruits served, increase whole grains, serve only low fat or fat-free milk. Until the year of 2022, schools must cut the amount of sodium served in half. Actually I am from a highly open family. My parents give me and my brother

much freedom to choose what we like to eat, and they only put emphasis on eating vegetables and fruits and suggest us to eat five categories of vegetables and fruits , because humans body needs lots of cellulose and vitamins, and those are contained in vegetables and fruits. My brother is a reverent catholic, and he must eat a vegetarian meal on Friday. And I am fond of eating western food, no matter steak, hamburger, spaghetti, gratin rice, roast chicken and so on. If our school only provides the same meal every day, it will let me want to go out to eat lunch. Recently I read a piece of news is quite interesting and it is about French people hate fast food restaurant, just like McDonald, because they think fast food will destroy kids taste bud. They want their children realize and experience the original flavor of natural food. Because every fresh food has their unique flavor, like potato has sugariness, fresh seafood has salt taste. However, in fast food restaurant, flavor of potato, bread, chicken, beef, fresh vegetable are not the same as what we think, they add too much salt and pepper to season. School provides variety of meals to students also can be regarded as they respect their students or really care about their students demands, and schools pertinent service is a tendency in this modern society. Because the kind of despotic school would not be able to provide low fat or vegetarian meal, they dont care about what their students like to eat, they never so much as value students health and nutrition,

and the only thing they are concerned is whether their students eat enough of not. Finally, I feel it is a satisfying thing that Tamkang provides diverse food for us, there have expensive restaurants or cheap cafeterias, American, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian food. If you stay here, you can enjoy foreign cuisines and try some new dishes every day.