Wayne Central's seventh grade health curriculum teaches that foods are gold, silver, or bronze; retrospectively representing healthy, ok and unhealthy. This information is accompanied by instructions not to eat bronze-colored foods and to eat silver-colored foods sparingly. An education that provides rigid and polarized definitions of food can cause adolescents to worry about what they eat and be dissatisfied with themselves. Welch, McMahon, and Wright conducted a study on the ways in which nutrition and health have become increasingly influential on children's daily behaviors and conceptualizations of food. The study involved an interview with 32 primary school students in which the children were asked: “What does health mean to you?” Student responses indicated that extensive attention was given to classifying foods as “good,” “bad,” “healthy,” and “unhealthy.” All students, except one who answered “protein,” defined “healthy” or “good” foods as fruits and vegetables, failing to mention other essential food groups. Sugar, fat and “junk” food such as crisps, biscuits and cake were among the responses describing “bad” or “unhealthy” foods. “In interviews, the consumption of the 'wrong' food... was always considered dangerous and transgressive, indicating 'bad' or 'sinful' practices... The consistency and intensity of this message shapes individuals' thoughts in ways that can evoke feelings of shame and disgust” (Welch et