food and drink

Students who purchase food and drinks from a vendor outside the school gates suffer from poor quality and lack of cleanliness in food preparation, medical and health reports show. In one case, a student at a prominent high school in Jakarta was contracted diabetes six years ago after he drank at least one bottle of soda a day for his fifth year in elementary school.

Students sudden illness forced him to be treated in hospital for 10 days. His doctor told him that he had type one diabetes mellitus, and must take insulin for the rest of his life. Since then he has learned how to inject themselves with insulin intravenously. He repeated this process four times a day: once before meals and once before bedtime. Sometimes he injected himself in the school toilets, she said.

Drink made from a mixture of powdered beverage package combined with water and ice, he said. “I do not think I was healthy beverage unless a child has a sensitive throat,” said street vendor. Inspection of the nutrition label reveals some natural ingredients in mixed drinks street vendor, but a lot of artificial sweeteners and colorings. Health reports indicate that extra can have a negative short-or long-term effects on people, depending on the genetic disposition and overall physical health.

While the medical reports on this subject are not conclusive, some doctors say can cause excessive consumption of MSG symptom complex monosodium glutamate suffer. Patients with complex could prove a headache, flushing, nausea and other complaints. Post does not see Tatang wash utensils with fresh running water. Instead, he soaped and rinsed the items in two buckets filled with water, which are stored by a pile of leaves and discarded plastic wrap. Bucket, a shop under a tree when not in use, has a small petals floating in it. Local parents say they believe the food Kosim’s. has run a food stall vendor in the same place for more than 20 years.