The argument as to whether or not schools should be able to sell junk food is a highly controversial topic. To begin with‚ there is the problem to defining junk foods. Are we talking about potato chips‚ soda‚ and Twinkies? What about fried chicken fingers‚ cheeseburgers‚ and pizza-foods many schools serve? Most cases‚ when faced with the decision‚ a child will no doubt choose what is offered without knowing it is a health issue. What would a change in the availability of these snacks teach children
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of the Food Service Industry * After World War II‚ college and universities provided food service to the students and built separate dining halls for men and women. * Companies set fast food services that competed with food establishments in colleges and universities. * 1865‚ Victor Hugo introduced school feeding at a very minimal cost. * School food service started in Boston School Committee in the United States. It was granted management food service in 1894. * Food services
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Fast Food vs. Healthy Foods Is fast food causing obesity? It is an important topic‚ but who is causing it and responsible‚ is more important. Parents are blaming fast food industries for the fault of their children’s overweight‚ when in reality‚ parents are not taking the blame for their child’s obesity and exercise problems. Now in days obesity is becoming more and more common in a child’s childhood and considered important. According to Daniel Weintraub‚ “A public health group called last week
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Home Food vs. Fast Food Home Food vs. Fast Food This generation has many people of all ages which are becoming more obese simply because they are eating more fast food than home food. Restaurants and many other fast food places have foods that contain high in fat‚ sugar‚ and salt. Having a healthy regular diet at home will keep you away from many health problems. Also having fast food only on special occasions is fine as well. We all need food to survive‚ but we should learn to make wise decisions
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Food Contamination and Poisoning You know when eating some kind of food‚ and it doesn’t taste right‚ look right or smell right? That means it could be contaminated with a dangerous substance that could harm the body. Food poisoning is the result of ingesting organisms or toxins in food. Food poisoning can affect one person‚ or it can occur as an outbreak among several people who all ate the same thing. Even though food poisoning is quite rare in North America‚ food poisoning affects 60 to 80
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Food is an essential constituent in human life. Nevertheless‚ some foods can be detrimental to a person’s organism by causing life-threatening diseases. For that reason‚ food safety comes into play. Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling‚ preparation‚ and storage of food in ways that prevent illness. This includes a set of laws that should be followed to stay away from potentially severe health hazards. Food can transmit disease from individual to individual‚ and also serves
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Food Security in America In our class‚ we each had to do a presentation on a problem that was presented in David Shipler’s novel‚ The Working Poor. I chose to focus on food security versus food insecurity in America and how we as Americans‚ can help end food insecurity in our communities. The level of food insecurity in America declined between 2004 and 2005 from 11.9% to 11% and then stayed about the same until 2008. In 2008‚ the stocks crashed and food security plummeted with it‚ with 14.6%
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them better eating habits. Which brings me to my next point. When schools are teaching these things‚ they should try and make it more interesting. I think most schools are still on the food pyramid and such which in my opinion is boring. Kids don’t want to listen to that kind of thing. Also‚ they can try things like you have to buy one healthy thing before they buy a junk food. And my last point‚ schools should try and make the healthy things taste better. There are some schools with awful food which
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the article‚ Blank Food‚ by Michelangelo Pascali‚ Pascali shows how food is not just there for eating‚ but also there for aesthetic purposes. He also mentions how just valuing food at the surface level has harmed society‚ because then people will then eat foods with no nutritional value just for their aesthetic purposes‚ such as “blank food”. Individuals has made “blank food” apart of their daily lives to show individualism. Pascali also goes on to discuss how this “blank food” has become a new ritual
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Science Food In the first part of the book‚ it gives a lot of rules that I have heard from television talk shows and many other rules that I thought were very interesting and will use in the future. The book we read is related to our class because it tells us how to eat foods that will rot instead of eating food that will not rot. In our class we discussed how and what we should eat everyday and what the proportions to several types of food groups. The book gives main points of eating actual
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