Fast Food Schools
Chubby America:
Fast Food Schools
Rene Robledo
Strayer University
Chubby America:
Fast Food Schools
Childhood obesity has grown rapidly over the years, and with it health problems such as type one and two diabetes, and high blood pressure. It is most likely that a child who is already overweight will reach obesity at adulthood. With obesity a major growing problem in America the government decided to act by passing a law, The Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act. The bill allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to regulate what schools can sell in their cafeterias and it will also help provide resources to increase nutritional quality. The idea of lowering obesity in America was a plan most people would like to see happen, …show more content…
Yet recent studies show that people have been blaming schools for what happens in children’s homes and neighborhoods. ( Hippel, & Broh 2004; Hippel & Hughes 2008) After children go home from school there is no telling what they eat at their houses so what they eat at home they are going to want at school. Most of the time it is Competitive foods are foods that are sold outside of the regular regulated food that the school sells foods such as, soda, candy bars, doughnuts, potato chips, and cookies. Items like these are sold in vending machines and snack bars and do not have to meet the nutrition guidelines. (Hook, & Altman, 2012) Over time vending machines have become to be a problem and people have wanted to get rid of them all together or reduce the sugar items in schools. So in 2010, The Health, Hunger-Free Kids Act gave the (USDA) rule to stop selling sugar soda and most of sugar food in school and out. With competitive foods out of the picture and schools taking in healthier foods for vending machines will help reduce child …show more content…
von Hippel, & Melanie Hughes. 2008. Are Failling schools really failing? Using seasonal Comparison to evaluate schools effectiveness. Sociology of education. Sociology of Education 81:242-70
2. Downey, Douglas B., Paul T. von Hippel, & Beckett Broh. 2004. ‘‘Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year.’’ American Sociological Review 69:613-35.
3. Jennifer Van Hook & Claire E. Altman. 2012. Competitive Food Sales in Schools and Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal study. Sociology of Education 85(1) 23–39
4. Charles E. Basch,PhD. 2011. Healthier Students Are Better Learners: High-Quality, Strategically Planned, and Effectively Coordinated School Health Programs Must Be a Fundamental Mission of Schools to Help Close the Achievement Gap. American School Health Association. Journal of School
Fast Food Schools
Rene Robledo
Strayer University
Chubby America:
Fast Food Schools
Childhood obesity has grown rapidly over the years, and with it health problems such as type one and two diabetes, and high blood pressure. It is most likely that a child who is already overweight will reach obesity at adulthood. With obesity a major growing problem in America the government decided to act by passing a law, The Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act. The bill allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to regulate what schools can sell in their cafeterias and it will also help provide resources to increase nutritional quality. The idea of lowering obesity in America was a plan most people would like to see happen, …show more content…
Yet recent studies show that people have been blaming schools for what happens in children’s homes and neighborhoods. ( Hippel, & Broh 2004; Hippel & Hughes 2008) After children go home from school there is no telling what they eat at their houses so what they eat at home they are going to want at school. Most of the time it is Competitive foods are foods that are sold outside of the regular regulated food that the school sells foods such as, soda, candy bars, doughnuts, potato chips, and cookies. Items like these are sold in vending machines and snack bars and do not have to meet the nutrition guidelines. (Hook, & Altman, 2012) Over time vending machines have become to be a problem and people have wanted to get rid of them all together or reduce the sugar items in schools. So in 2010, The Health, Hunger-Free Kids Act gave the (USDA) rule to stop selling sugar soda and most of sugar food in school and out. With competitive foods out of the picture and schools taking in healthier foods for vending machines will help reduce child …show more content…
von Hippel, & Melanie Hughes. 2008. Are Failling schools really failing? Using seasonal Comparison to evaluate schools effectiveness. Sociology of education. Sociology of Education 81:242-70
2. Downey, Douglas B., Paul T. von Hippel, & Beckett Broh. 2004. ‘‘Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year.’’ American Sociological Review 69:613-35.
3. Jennifer Van Hook & Claire E. Altman. 2012. Competitive Food Sales in Schools and Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal study. Sociology of Education 85(1) 23–39
4. Charles E. Basch,PhD. 2011. Healthier Students Are Better Learners: High-Quality, Strategically Planned, and Effectively Coordinated School Health Programs Must Be a Fundamental Mission of Schools to Help Close the Achievement Gap. American School Health Association. Journal of School