School Lunches In Schools Research Paper

School lunches should get changed. This is true, but the schools are making everything healthy and taking away all the “good” snacks and extras is punishing the people that aren't obese and overweight. Therefore, the schools have had to turn over to “The Smart Snacks in Schools” program sets limits on calories, fats, sugar, and sodium and promotes the consumption of dairy, whole grains, protein, and produce (Lincoff). Where the schools have had to fallback on The Smart Snacks program it is a really good idea to help the overweight or obese children at schools lose weight but it isn't good for them when they buy two or three lunches then it turns the food from being good for them to being just like the regular school food they started off with
Also Insulin is a hormone the body uses to move sugar from food or drink into the bloodstream, where cells are then able to use sugar for energy (Olson). Then within just 20 minutes, blood sugar levels spike and the liver responds to the insulin by turning sugar into fat for storage (Olson). This is also what helps make people overweight and not able to lose weight when they want to. It also helps people get diabetes and can lead to a sugar attack and worse if it is bad enough it can kill them. Within 45 minutes of gulping down a single 20-ounce glass of soda, caffeine from the drink is fully absorbed, and as a result your pupils dilate and blood pressure rises (Olson). Then The body produces more dopamine, which stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain — just like a low-grade line of cocaine (Olson). So pretty much soda is kind of like a drug for people to consume in a liquid form that is legal. This is bad that soda is kind of like a low dose of cocaine for us. This is one thing that I agree