Peterson Robin
24 Robust Road
Thompson, VA 735598
The Vice Chancellor
Brookshire University
2755 Virgin Drive
Hometown, NJ 60245
Dear Ms. Bryson,
RE: Healthy Dining Options
The reason why I am writing this letter is to express my concern over the campus diet being offered. Though I am a freshman and I have been here only for a short period, I must admit that I have issues with the food which is being offered in the different campus eating joints. For the two and a half months I have been suffering a great deal over the fatty foods which unfortunately lack any alternative. I have therefore taken the initiative, after gathering much needed courage to talk to you.
Campus breakfast consists of toasted muesli, roasted nuts, doughnuts and drinking chocolate. The alternative to this are flavored milk, biscuits and marmalade. As noticed, there is no cereal in the campus diet for breakfast. The alternative to this would also be dry roasted or raw nuts. The food varieties available for breakfast are all bad for health. Madam, breakfast has to include healthier foods which are good for the body and the available ones which only serve to harm it.
The campus lunch is also unsuitable for good health and opposes healthy living. For example the lunch menu consists of French fries, fruit tinned syrup, yoghurt type products, pasties, regular salami, regular sausages and quiches. These are all classified as “needn’t foods” by Otego University researchers. These foods are not nutritional. In fact, instead of helping the body, they harm it. There is no broccoli or any vegetable, no low fat foods and no turkey-wrap or other low fatty foods. Though I must admit that there are fruits in the diet areas, no person can have just fruits for lunch. This is more so after being in class for hours none stop. Hunger tends to bite strong and a student just wants to eat good healthy food.
For dinner, the menu does not change much. The food is more or less the same. There are also lighter foods in the school diet such as biscuits, condensed milk, cordial water, corn chips, cream, glucose, honey, hot chips, and ice cream among others. All these snacks are not good for the body. They are fatty and may cause disease such as diabetes because of the higher levels of sugar, obesity, and high blood pressure. For young and growing people like us, it is evident that this type of food is not right. It will lead to early deaths and unexpected hospitalization.
The solution to the above is quite clear and precise. The school diet must be overhauled and changed immediately. More vegetables and low fatty foods like cheerios, fig newton, fat free yoghurt, special k. granola and other low brands of low fat ice creams must be considered in the introduction of healthy foods in the school diet. Students are a growing part of the country’s population and their health should be of great concern to any organization worth its salt.
Madam, there is no special equipment needed for this overhaul. In fact the budget for the provision of dining options is unlikely to change. This is because there is nothing new being introduced. The only thing happening is what is referred to as replacement in layman’s language. To be sincere, the budget is likely to reduce if my proposal is implemented. This is because the unhealthy, fatty foods usually cost more than vegetables and the less fatty foods. Though the taste is likely to be different and the proposal I am forwarding is likely to receive opposition from many quarters, it is clear that the university must adopt a more sober approach to its dining options. If this school is to raise a family of young healthy professionals meant to make a difference in the society at large, the proposal should be considered. The university should not be a culprit or contributor to the premature deaths of young people who have been educated in the best schools in the whole world.
Madam vice chancellor, I have done a thorough research and have come up with figures which are like to surprise you. First, 80% of all students in the campus area eat in the school diners. This means that this all these students have an unhealthy lifestyle. Only 20% prefer to cook in their hostels or other places. Out of this 80%, I have come to the bitter truth that most of them are usually too busy to think about what they eat. They just enter the dinner and order the first food they see on the menu. This is 50%. These students do not consider eating any fruits or checking if there is any healthy food available. 30% check but usually give up after noticing there is nothing healthy in the menu. According to federal figures, a whopping 47% of premature deaths are because of unhealthy eating habits. The disease mentioned, together with cancer and others arise from unhealthy foods. Therefore, the 80% of all students who eat in the school diner contribute a lot to the federal digits. If healthy foods were to be introduced according to my proposal, then the percentage is likely to half in the first year and reduces slowly thereafter. The school would be proud to raise a healthy group of professionals who live long enough to affect positively their society.
Sincerely,
Peterson Robin
