The inspiration for this topic came from my hospital stay a couple weeks ago. The hospital admitted me overnight, and while I was there they brought me dinner and breakfast the next morning. My dinner consisted of a piece of extremely greasy, bland and nearly meatless chicken, what seemed to be soggy over steamed mixed vegetables, a big, sweet yeast roll, sweet tea and a styrofoam bowl of extra sweet pineapple upside down cake. Breakfast was powdered eggs, what looked to be limp microwave bacon, and the only health conscious food of the past two days a bowl of regular cheerios. My first thought upon seeing both of these trays was “None of this can be healthy.” Granted, my second thought was to stuff my face anyways because I had not ate a real meal in almost a week and the antibiotics I was being pumped full of gave me the appetite of a teenage boy, but that’s besides the point.
With this theme, I hope to effectively argue through researched evidence that hospitals could serve healthier and more nutritious meals to their patients. The people there are, after all, sick! I plan to convince my reader that there are actions that could be taken by the people in charge of the food service in hospital wards to improve the options for the patients. There are special “trays” for special diets at most hospitals, and one could argue that this is a step in the direction of healthier food options for those who are admitted and their “caretakers”, but how healthy are those “special trays” in reality? In my paper, I plan to find valuable research to answer this question and develop it into something that could possibly make an impact some where.
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