When it comes to school lunches‚ many parents do not see how bad they can truly be. When enrolling your child or children into a school‚ the lunches are not the first thing that you look at. With the obesity rate in america getting the highest it has ever been‚ the lunches at the schools that our children go to‚ are very important and need to be healthy and nutritious for the younger generation. According to the CDC‚ childhood obesity has more than doubled in 2013. Also‚ Readers Digest says
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Most students try to starve themselves because they want to lose weight‚ but the school doesn’t offer food that will help students become healthier. First and foremost‚ some students have eating disorders but conceal it well from other‚ and schools don’t offer the food needed for them. School lunch should be something that students look forward to‚ instead of dreading seeing the vile food passed out to them. Lunch is looked forward to by some children‚ because they may not get fed at home. In
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the National School Lunch Program The National School Lunch Program began the year after the second World War. During the war‚ many draftees were not able to enlist‚ because they repeatedly failed their health exams‚ due to malnourishment. This caused the government to realize that the general population were not receiving enough nutrition. This realization is what led to the development of the idea for The National School Lunch Program‚ that was put into effect in 1946. This program made it so students
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Every college or university has certain policies and times that the cafeteria is allowed to be open. We sometimes forget that the school lunch/dinner hall is run by regular university staff as well as a few students who also have other obligations such as homework‚ fine art activities‚ etc.‚ but I feel that the hour and a half time period that the cafe is open and available to the student body‚ it is not enough time for most students‚ especially athletes‚ to get in there and eat. I am a student
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Health Promotion Program Denise Fitzgerald HCA/250 April 2‚ 2011 April Doctor-Smalls Health Promotion Program Before School Breakfast Club GOALS • To promote health and wholeness by providing a healthy breakfast for students during the school week. • Only healthy choices will be made available thus promoting good nutrition and healthy eating choices. • Students will be shown the link between eating a healthy breakfast and improving grades and test scores. • Students who cannot
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established the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)‚ a federally assisted meal program designed to offer healthy‚ low-cost meals to students in public and not-for-profit schools. The program‚ operated through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)‚ offers participating school districts reimbursement for the meals they serve‚ allowing schools to offer free or reduced lunches to qualifying students. However‚ in order to receive reimbursement‚ foodservice programs must adhere to strict nutritional
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The National School Lunch Act was also advocated by the ADA. This act insured that foods served in schools were of scientific nutritional value (Confessore‚ 2014). Law makers from both parties agreed that change needed to be implemented in regards to children’s health and food consumption (Confessore‚ 2014). Therefore‚ both parties voted for the National School Lunch Act to be instituted. This Act redesigned food consumption in schools. Instead of sugary drinks and fired potato chips being sold
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Attention! What all can you get out of $2.95 for lunch besides four items that are horrible and never cooked to the best of their ability? I believe we deserve more or we play less and lower the price of lunch down to what it should cost what do you say? “Ring‚ Ring‚ Ring” the 11:24 bell goes off as I race my way to the lunch room starving after a whole morning of hard dedicated work I’ve put in for 5 long hours in the morning. When I get to the lunch room all I hear is talking from other students
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Proposal Independence High School‚ located in San Jose‚ California is known to be the largest high school in the East Side Union High District. It consist over 3‚000 students per year‚ and yet only 31% of the student population has free-reduced lunch‚ according to High-Schools.com. But what the school of Independence serves for not only free-reduced lunch students but for non-reduced lunch students is not as nutritional as it seems. I believe the school lunch program at Independence does not truly
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lacks good quality and taste‚ and is probably one of the reasons why countless students don’t eat during lunch. Students always discuss what if they could change three things in their school’s lunch menu. They would probably have chocolate ice-cream‚ fried chicken or cake every day for lunch if they were given that option. If I was given the option to change three things in my school’s lunch menu‚ I would take out wheat pancakes‚ pizza and the re fried beans. The wheat pancakes have always lacked
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