Essay We Are Hungry It is a YouTube sensation. A video made by high school teens titled We Are Hungry is an exaggerated but necessary cry for a 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
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Nutrition and School When I look back at my experience through elementary and secondary school‚ and think about school lunch my memories are not cherished. The gray messy masses that smell and jiggle in a nebulous blob while the lunch lady deposits it onto my tray. No‚ those were not fond memories at all. I do remember having to look at the month ahead with my mother‚ because she wanted me to at least eat one school prepared meal a week. These were tough decisions for an elementary student
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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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How many time have you‚ the reader‚ stood in the school lunch line‚ waiting to get your lunch‚ and came out with nothing but garbage? Well‚ I think I know the solution to this problem‚ as well as others: school gardens! In my personal opinion‚ school gardens are pretty much essential for not only the education of the students and even teachers‚ but also‚ the general welfare of the whole school. They can improve school lunches; can have positive effects on students and teachers; and will give kids
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With better school lunch being offered‚ students is school will be able to take food that has the required amount of energy. Food that is rich in energy is a necessary requirement for any lunch to be considered better. With energy from food‚ students are more likely to be able to undertake numerous school activities or exercises that require a lot of energy. This exercise may include sporting activities such as swimming and playing football. With student participation in events such as sport‚ their
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School Lunches 5 billion school lunches are served yearly‚ but what is in those lunches? With rising obesity rates‚ elevated food insecurity‚ and more people realizing that nutrition is critical to the development of students are all raising awareness of the need to improve school food programs. School lunches are not nutritious‚ affecting children’s mental and physical health‚ and students don’t enjoy eating them. The first reason school lunches need to change is because they aren’t nutritious
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Schools should make sure that the lunch they provide is nutritious. Julia Tofan‚ a high school student in Connecticut states‚ “Students deserve balanced meals that will enable our minds and bodies to power through our busy days -- not a sugar rush that won’t last beyond the lunch period” (Tofan and Millerick 1). Tofan is insisting that school lunches should be healthy. School providing junk food to the students are failing them because those are calories that break down easily. Once that food is
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national school lunch policies has been a topic of conversation for a number of years but has recently been getting to a critical level of low nutrition school lunches are let’s be honest some what sub par in the healthy factor with the government funding‚ high blood pressure in minors‚ national school lunch program‚ and nutritional value of food. The government places certain values on how bad food can be for students in these institutions During 1995‚ about 26 million children in 94‚000 schools and
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In recent years‚ school cafeterias across America have started a new lunch trend that has sparked quite a debate. With so many complaints about the poor quality food that schools have been serving students‚ bringing in popular fast food restaurants to replace traditional lunches seems to be the quick solution. This new trend is not only a dull attempt to solve an issue‚ but it also creates other problems for school age children‚ as well as the entire nation. Fast food restaurants may be more popular
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part of a typical school lunch? Well‚ this is not the case anymore. Now it is low fat ranch‚ whole wheat bread‚ and sides of only fruits and vegetables. This is all part of the new schools lunch program. The government wants students to be healthier‚ and this is how they decide to do it. However‚ this is not an effective plan because it is leaving students hungry‚ they do not enjoy the food‚ and is costly. The government should not impose restrictions on cafeteria food in schools Headed by First
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