Waters, Alice. "A Healthy Constitution." The
Carolina Reader: Third Edition. Ed. Lee Kauknight and
W. Matthew J.
Simmons. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2012. 337-338. Print.
Ms.
Walters is well respected in the food services community. She is the founder
and owner of the Chez Panisse Foundation and the Chez Panisse restaurant
respectively. She is an activist for healthier food options in schools and a
strong proponent of “edible education.” “Edible education,” is a theory that
healthier lunches in schools will lead to students being healthier and succeeding
more in school and the community. It follows that students will not only be
healthier physically, but also mentally.
To
build her case she cites people such as Thomas Jefferson who said “Cultivators
of the earth are the most valuable citizens.” She also takes quotes from
students in the California area who all had positive experiences and benefits from
healthier lunches. Her main argument is that we should care more about the
places where the roots of life are being nourished.
1.
The author’s main point is that taking
responsibility for yourself brings about better benefits. She says it fosters
in responsibility to other aspects of your life including responsibility to
people other than yourself. 2. The link between healthy meals and learning is
about the principle of taking ownership of your actions. Eating an unhealthy
meal is the same as not doing your homework, nor doing it in poor fashion. Waters only supports her argument with one
example of a school that had dramatic increases in positive aspects and
decreases in disciplinary problems. She also cites three students which
healthier meals have benefited. She would have been better off by stating
actual facts and statistics rather than hearsay and one example. In addition, I
think that Walters does not address the fact that the parents of these students
have control over 75% of their daily intake of food and that they should have
their kids eat healthier.
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