SWA #12

Jonny Leon

English 102-111

February 20, 2012

SWA #12

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.

Waters’ essay talks about how the current cafeteria system in place, in schools, is failing the not just health wise but also in all aspects of schools. Water’s mentions a scene from the documentary “Super Size Me”, where many obese children are shown to make a point that the cafeteria at that school had only unhealthy options. Waters then goes on to discuss how a school that completely eliminated unhealthy options from their cafeteria not only made the kids healthier and made them get sick less often but it also made them perform better in school.

Food can be used to teach the central values of democracy because in a properly run food system all of the different places where foods is either sold or grown work together for the benefit of the people. That is how a properly run democracy should be. All the sections of the democracy work together and help each other. Waters says there is a link between healthy meals and learning. She gives evidence of three students who felt their school lives had improved once they started eating healthier. More evidence would have strengthened her argument but it was also a short essay so more evidence would not have necessarily been appropriate.