Obesity and School Lunches Essay

Obesity in Children The most common factors of child obesity are genetic, but many factors come from unhealthy eating habits, lack of physical activity, or even a combination of all these factors. Obesity has many rates for health problems among children. In the past 30 years, statistics show the frequency of childhood obesity has more than doubled among children ages 2 to 5, has nearly tripled among youth ages 6 to 11, and has more than tripled among adolescents ages 12 to 19. According to…

Our First Lady’s platform is on childhood obesity and she has worked with the FDA to improve the standards of school lunches and has started a website Let’s Move (“Michelle Obama Pledges to ‘Fight until the Bitter End’ For Lunch Standards”). There are more than nine million children between the ages of six to nine that are considered overweight. Also, 70% of children who are considered obese are more likely to continue being obese into adulthood (“Obesity Statistics”). My research question…

The Government 's diet In the past couple of years, the U.S. government has been slowly but surely, regulating the food that we can eat. This is especially true in schools across the country. The more years that past, the more the government is trying to change the what people eat. They are starting first in children’s schools to prevent kids from being obese. Some say they need even stricter regulations and some say less. There are pros and cons to each side of this argument. Regulations help…

leaders, educations, medical professionals, parents, and many others together nationwide to address the childhood obesity issue. Having Michelle Obama speak amongst the Gonzaga community will inspire the zags to build a more prosperous America. In 2010, Michelle Obama launched the Let’s Move! Campaign as an initiative to solve the problem of childhood…

The National School Lunch Program provides students with “healthy” and “nutritional” meals to consume during their lunch period, however, how can a meal that needs to be unwrapped and heated be at all good for us? Most of us don’t know what exactly we are taking into our body. Many students including myself sometimes get ill from these meals. If a healthy and nutritional meal gets you sick then there is something wrong. In order for school lunches to improve we must have an alternative and that…

Hungry for Change Why is it that law mandates public school meals have a minimum calorie intake, but not a maximum? This owes itself to the fact that when nutrition standards were established for public schools, it was to solve the problem of undernourishment. The majority of school aged children used to walk to school, played more outside, and were more active in sports. This resulted in children burning more calories than school meals provided. Nowadays, the problem has become over…

List and describe two health problems that afflict those in middle childhood. Are there ways to prevent these health problems? Asthma and obesity are the most common health problems that afflict kids in middle childhood. Asthma is a disease that affects lungs. Symptoms of asthma are wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, shortness of breath. Asthma and allergies are heridatory.It is very important to let your pediatrician know about family history, because doctors tend to underdiagnose asthma.…

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…

Topic: School cafeterias contribute to obesity in children and they should only offer healthy food options. It’s not a lifestyle choice when people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids (and this is the problem with school lunches right now) are getting sugar, fat, empty calories- lots of calories- but no nutrition. Words by Tom Colicchio. Obesity is affecting people worldwide, especially the younger generation. One of the major causes of obesity in children is food high in…

The issue of child obesity has been a hot topic for many years. Health issues like obesity has effected hundreds of children in the United States. When children go to school they tend to follow their fellow classmates especially when it comes to school lunches. Kids would buy anything that is bright and colorful. Most of obesity has to do with peer pressure because if a certain friend does not pick the food that is pasta, patatos, or loaded with calories; instead, they pick something more…