Christian Tancredi School Lunch in the U.S. – Love or Avarice? In the U.S. the debate with regards to school lunches never seems to settle. Advocates for lunch boxes‚ or brown-bags‚ argue that school lunches are not healthy enough for the children. Others say that removing school lunch completely would entail graver and more direct problems. This essay will argue for keeping the school lunch and the importance of improving it. The main reason people want to remove school lunches concerns the
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The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation’s second largest food and nutrition assistance program. It has benefited an enormous amount of children suffering from poverty or in households struggling to make ends meet. It has operated in over 101‚000 public and nonprofit private schools and‚ “provided over 28 million low-cost or free lunches to children on a typical school day at a federal cost of $8 billion for the year”. (TNSLP) The main goal on the NSLP as identified by congress is to
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change the breakfast and lunch school from what we have? It is important as parents are very concern about what their children have at school for breakfast and lunch. This topic is become sensitive and brought it up to majority by the First Lady‚ Michelle Obama at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria‚ Virginia as she claimed that she was worried about the food at school as she tried to prepare healthy food for her children (Nixon‚ 2012.) Moreover changing the breakfast and lunch program can come from
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Obesity in school children Children develop within a set framework and grow according to the levels of exercise and nutrition available to them as well as their particular genetic nature. In affluent countries such as Australia this growth can be affected by the lack of exercise and the consumption of too many kilojoules. Currently there are a large percentage of children who are verging on obesity or are obese‚ and this is an emerging cause for worry in today’s schools. Children today are not as
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The Impact of School Lunch Length on Children’s Health Although there are some inherited and hormonal reasons of childhood obesity‚ most of the time it’s caused by kids over eating and not exercising enough. In addition to consuming nutrient rich food and exercising regularly‚ nutritionists have said that it is important for children to have an adequate amount of time to eat their meals. This is because it takes individuals‚ to only begin feeling full‚ about twenty minutes after they begin eating
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The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) are large and important child nutrition programs overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Fns.usda.gov) Established in 1946‚ the National School Lunch Program was started by President Harry Truman. It began as a way to prop up food prices by absorbing farm surpluses‚ while at the same time providing food to school aged children. The majority of schools participating in the program come in the form of
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Karen Jaramillo 10/21/2014 English 102 Professor Vargas Liberty and Language? America is a wonderful country that holds a distinctive quality and that is the acceptance of people from different ethnicities and race to form part of America. Numerous Polls have consistently proved that most Americans believe immigrants who are in the United States illegally should be granted legal status if they take the steps of learning English. This is understandable and should be reinforced. What can’t
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2/2/12 Students should have more time to eat lunch in school Have you ever been that kid who has been late to your next period class because you haven’t yet finished your lunch cause of that long lunch line? Yea‚ I know. We’ve all been there. I believe that our school lunch period should be extended to a full period. My reasons behind this are students are missing valuable class time because they aren’t done eating their lunch‚ students need more time to relax their brain both physically
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The National School Lunch Program has nutritional standards that the participating schools must follow. These standards are what make the program so effective in reducing childhood obesity. The meal patterns and nutritional standards are based off of the latest dietary guidelines for Americans which has increased the availability of fruits‚ vegetables‚ and whole grains. Students are required to take some of each food while obtaining their lunch from the cafeteria. Students are still given the choice
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thinks of school lunch they reminisce on some of their favorite childhood foods from pizza to salisbury steak. School lunch is an iconic part of public schooling to most that have endured it. It is a moment of peace where students are able to enjoy their favorite delicacies. A favored time by all kids that participate. Yet now the school board is trying to remove the classic lunch meals with a more healthy alternative getting rid of some favorite options; why is that? Why would the school board want
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