Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: school lunch

  • More than a meal: How school lunch became a lifelong lesson

    Scarlett SaittaJonesboro, Arkansas, United States I first began to question the US food system when my friend’s father died of a heart attack in his late thirties. A few days after the funeral, my friend’s mother kindly served us boxed mac and cheese stamped “low sugar.” She was grieving, overwhelmed, and trying her best to…