School Lunches Brandon Burnett Semester 1 School Lunches Childhood obesity is a hot-button issue for parents‚ teachers‚ and the medical experts with different ideas and solutions on the issue. Some blame it on genetics‚ others say its a lack of physical activity and poor lifestyle choices. This has often led to the topic of school lunches‚ should schools only offer healthy options? Yes
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School lunches are almost always inadequate. More than half the students leave lunch hungry. They give choices of vegetables but when they don’t taste good they’ll just be trashed. If they eat eight hundred calorie meals and they only eat one fourth they only get two hundred of those calories. That’s possibly for a high school student that plays three sports a year that won’t be home until after six or seven o’clock. Many of these kids are hungry through classes think of how it affects class work
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School Lunches Have you ever received a school lunch‚ looked at it‚ and wondered‚ “What in the world is that”? Of course you have‚ that’s what school lunches are known for. I can recall numerous times when I couldn’t tell what kind of slime was jiggling on my lunch tray; was it the Macaroni and Cheese slime or was it the Nacho’s slime? School lunches really put the “sloppy” in Sloppy Joes and students shouldn’t be served such food at school. Schools are supposed to promote healthy‚ successful
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canteens. Consequently this problem worried minds of society. The aim of the report is to explore level of food which submit in Latvia and other camps of the world. “We can do a tremendous amount of good for kids across the country if we change school lunches‚” says Chef Ann Cooper‚ the self proclaimed “renegade lunch lady”. Chef Ann Cooper is a celebrated author‚ chef‚ educator‚ and enduring advocate for better food for all children (Insite‚ 2010) It was established that one of the causes of various
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Are School Lunches Really Healthy For You? Imagine going to school and thinking‚ “Oh boy‚ what am I going to have for lunch today?” All you see is stuff you don’t like‚ so you don’t eat anything. Then your stomach starts to growl. What would you do and how would you explain it to your parents after school? Some students just don’t eat anything because they don’t like it. Others say that they “aren’t hungry‚” but you never know. Schools should just make the lunch healthier and taste better. Even
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debates for years on this topic‚ from the cost to the health benefits a healthy lunch can provide a child. One of the largest debates was the cost. In one case study in one year the nation’s schools provided over 5 billion lunches with roughly 28 million lunches at reduced or for free thus costing the government 8 million dollars. Most school across the U.S‚ provide free or reduced lunch 49 percent of meals served‚ were free‚ 10 percent were reduced price‚ and 41 percent were full
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Cafeteria lunches play a huge role in the daily life of elementary‚ middle‚ and high school students. When I was in school a typical lunch consisted of pizza‚ carrots‚ and milk. Across the country school lunches are becoming healthier. New federal guidelines aim to provide healthier school lunches and curb the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic. Among the changes are more fresh fruits and vegetables. The Healthy‚ Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires school lunch programs to serve healthier
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change. In the tune of hit song We Are Young the video depicts teens falling asleep during class and slumping to the floor during sports practices. As silly as the video gets at times it boils down to one thing. There needs to be a change. School lunches need to have more calories and bigger portions to support the growing bodies of the children and teens eating them. New legislation passed in the US limits the calorie intake of school meals to 650 calories for elementary school
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but how does one teach children to eat things like vegetables? Some children do not like to eat the vegetables that are given to them because they are not quite sure what is in the mushroom surprise. A lot of children just do not like school lunches‚ while others really enjoy them. Some may think that they are fattening‚ rubber in them‚ too greasy and unhealthy. While others find them more
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A Disappointment School lunches today are not as hearty and delicious as they were back in the day. When I was a child my lunches were prepared at school by the cafeteria workers. Today‚ the cafeteria workers heat up the already prepared food. Today’s food is prepared by means of "nuking" it in the microwave‚ or heated up in the oven. This could maybe be the cause of obesity with the unhealthy choices at lunchtime in the dining halls. When I was a child the mashed potatoes and turkey dinner were
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