Changing_Our_Environment

Changing our environment Who are the ones responsible for teaching teenagers what is healthy for us is it parents,teachers,the school' Sure.But we are the ones who can let the word out .Small’s argument about students should be require to learn how to cook and be course for school ,some of the reasons why I agrees with Small and I agree because teenagers can't always depend on their parents on cooking for us and also people don't care about how the food was produced,all they care if it tastes good we’ll eat it,therefore if parents can't take responsibility of their own children school should start ;having cooking course to have the skills when they are on their own. Many parents assumed that teenagers not being mature of eating heathly food instead we rather eat what is called"junk food",Small's states,"we spend extra money eating out or having food delivered.."Although I should know better by now,I cannot help thinking that I rather eat food that takes one minute to order and get served right away then taking one hour or so to make a healthy food.Parents' don't have time to cook how are we suppose to learn how to cook.Weintraubs states,me to cook how are we suppose to learn how to cook.Weintraub's states,"it's not easy...when both parents are working or there is only one parent in home ...fast food is fast."Therefore it's understandable if this situation is happening to family,how does the teenager suppose to learn how to cook if they don't have role model so to be able to cook thier own healthy meal. Americans today tend to believe that fast food tastes better and it's cheaper as well.In article of "It's portion Distortion that makes America fat", browelee states a mother "I always believed McDonald's food was healthy for my son Uh-huh and the tooth fairy really put that dollar under his pillow."(page 1).Brownlee's purpose was to make this sound ridiculous ;how can a parent even think that fast food is "good for you",its no doubt that fast food make your children gain weight so obvious as growing up as adults parents don't have responsible for their children anymore .Small's states,"parents work,so they are no longer the ones responsible for making sure that their children have healthy food.In other words teenagers make own desions on what they want to eat parents are going to feed them on their mouth like 3 mouth babies on my own exprience ,my parents don't ask if I ate or did I eat something healthy form the house.Parents relay on you to make your self something to eat aren't much responsible as you where a child. Common sense seems to dictate that school start having cooking course to have the skills ,so teenagers don't have to rely on others to cook them a meal.Small's states that "it's time that middle and high school have required courses for students so that they learn the essential skills for maintaining health." I believe that we should have a require as one of or elective so we have hands on experiences not reading articles trying to find out how you prepare the meals how is that suppose to help us learn in the future. It's difficult enough for have we come adults not learning how to cook simple meal as "quesadilla" that would just be ridiculous ;how can’t someone teach us for the future.