Instead of schools serving unhealthy lunches to students, we should feed the students with healthier foods that way they can stay away from certain health problems and have a better start towards their nutrition and academic performance. Preview: F. I would now like to talk about three details of unhealthy school lunches. Why there is so much unhealthy food in school lunches, why we should care about school lunches, and the solution to the problem. II. The Need step A. First Main Point…
This essay will describe how Sarah Wu’s book, Fed up with Lunch, discusses the horrendous problem outcomes found inside of a lunch system in a large Elementary School in Chicago that may include the true time that is given to eat the lunch, the unexpected nutrition found inside of every dish given, as well as the truth of keeping all the nutritional facts away from the public. Looking at the statuses of each school around the nation, it can clearly be stated that each school is different, however looking towards the fact that some schools lie on the same district, county, or even city can state the point that those schools have a significantly common method of running their institutions, and this one school could be the most significantly different…
Article headline: “More time for school lunches equals healthier choices for kids” Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150911094910.htm As the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) launched for more than 60 years, more and more students receive their discounted lunch each day, and school lunch has become an essential nutrition resource for students. Therefor, researchers are exploring methods to improve the healthiness of the food students eat everyday, and they conducted a study to find out how to let students select healthier food in 2012. This study claims that the more time kids have to finish lunch, the heathier food they are determined to eat. In this study, the researchers collected the data of food choice and the length of lunch time from six schooldays throughout the country from 2011 to 2012.…
Conclusions reached were that these school programs that aim to promote healthy eating among youths show target the school level environmental factors. This was a great article to start off my review with as it was before the major implementations the New School lunch Program, it showed that there were other factors to go along with the unhealthy food that prevented the students from having better dietary…
It is no secret that America is in an obesity epidemic. The majority of public schools are only making this problem worse. The school lunches that are provided to students are unhealthy, lacking in taste and quality, and are extremely underwhelming. This isn’t only a problem with lunches, the food in the vending machines is also very unhealthy. The lunches also do not cater in the slightest to children with food allergies or restrictions such as vegetarian or vegan.…
As you know, The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has come under critical examinations due to increase in the cost of public schools around the whole country. The National School Lunch Program is promoted by Michelle Obama, who is the first lady of the United States of America. This research will cover areas of this topic like how the National School Lunch Program affects a school’s budget, benefits of the National School Lunch Program, some concerns with the National School Lunch Program, and if the benefits outweigh the cost. There will also be material about my own opinion on this topic.…
School lunch programs claim to have their focus on student health, when really, they are more concerned with cost and convince. To ensure that kids grow up healthy and reduce America’s obesity rate school lunch programs need to provide nutrition education and healthy foods to students. The Article posted on Time “An Abbreviated History of School Lunch in America” by Emelyn Rude this past September shows the way school lunches have been in America since they first became a part of the student’s life. This is interesting because it shows how school lunches started up and how they were originally planned to be, the article says, “These programs were shown to be not only providing growing bodies with nutritious foods, but they were also teaching…
School lunches have always been a rather big debate in many schools. It seems no matter the choices, the cooks can't make everyone happy. There are so many ways to make school lunches healthier and still taste great. This could also help parents save money so that the kid doesn’t have to pack a lunch. Therefore, I believe that school lunches can be made healthier, which would offer more of a variety for the students, as well as be a better dietary style that gives the student more energy, and focus.…
Katherine Ralsten and Constance Newman, writers of “A Look at What’s Driving Lower Purchases of School Lunches” ,have written that recent studies suggest that while many school districts have adjusted to the new standards, maintaining full price lunch participation remains more challenging for smaller more rural and affluent districts (Ralsten and Newman, par. 18). There may be other schools that do not have any issues in changing the school lunches due to that fact that they can afford it, but there are other cities that do not have the money to afford good lunches. What will make it even worse is the fact that we students will be charged for their good everyday. Roberto A. Ferdman, writer of the Washington Post, says that according to the Agriculture Department millions of children from low income families that qualify for Medicaid are not enrolled in the free and reduced price meals program (Ferdman, par. 5). This can also contribute to the problem of students not eating.…
A common debate in schools is what options should be provided for lunch. The school administrations and parents often want their students to be served healthy lunches, but students typically prefer unhealthy alternatives that taste much better. Although unhealthy school lunches appeal more than healthy lunches, I think it is a better idea for nutritious meals to be served during the school day. High schoolers are usually able to make their own conscious decisions about what food they eat, so they can be trusted to pick at least a relatively healthy meal most of the time. However, the lunches a school serves becomes much more important when its students are younger.…
It is stated that about a third of kids and teens are overweight or obese in United Sates and this shows up in the news article “The effects of Children Eating Unhealthy School Lunches.” Corcoran High School needs to be aware of how much their school lunches are hurting the students both mentally and physically. Without a good meal students aren’t able to perform their best, so its best for Corcoran High School to serve foods that are nourishment and have great nutrition…
The Level of obesity among kids from the ages of two till five have dropped almost forty-three percent. The Government should be actively involved in the school lunches of children across the nation. Dr. Ferreras, an expert in nutrition stated, “Washington needs to keep to themselves……
Argument Paper II The quality of school lunches has been a debated topic throughout this past decade. While some are advocating for healthier lunch options for students, others would prefer that lunch options stay fairly the same to offer a more diverse selection of foods. The opinion article “Healthy School Lunches Under Attack: Our View” written in 2015 by USA Today is a prime example of those in favor of healthier school lunches, and on the opposing side, “Provide Flexibility in the Lunchroom: Opposing View” written by the president of the School Nutrition Association Jean Ronnei in 2015, is an article discussing the possibility of school lunch mandates going too far. The articles provide interesting points on both sides of the argument, however, after reading both articles…
The term “school lunch,” has had a negative connotation ever since I can remember. There’s much more to school lunch than gourmet salads or mystery meat. All over the United States schools serve lunch to a variety of different students, with different backgrounds, age groups and income. Just in one school the systematic arrangement of the lunch ladies and the policies set in place are just tiny specs of a much larger picture. The fact of the matter is, as children are developing they are being programmed and prepped for the rest of their lives.…
Batada, Seitz, Wootan, Story. “Nine out of 10 Food Advertisements Shown During Saturday Morning Children’s Television Programming Are for Foods High in Fat, Sodium, or Added Sugars, or Low in Nutrients.” Journal of the American Dietetic Association 108.4 (2008): 673-678. Print. The authors of this article hypothesized that more than half of foods marketed to children would be for cereals, restaurants, and snack foods, and that most foods would be high in fat, sugars or low in nutrients.…