The main benefit of the school board trying to regulate healthier foods into their breakfast and lunch menu is to make sure our youth are eating right and getting all the nutrients they need to live a strong and healthy life. They want to make sure, even if they aren’t eating right at home, they are getting some sort of healthy foods. Even if it is only once a day, they are hoping that this new impact will be a start to students wanting to eat healthier and be more active.…
An average of 10 million children participate in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) each school day, and 81 percent of these breakfasts are provided free or at a reduced price to low-income students (USDA Food and Nutrition Service Office of Research, and Nutrition and Analysis 2008). Thus, school meals can have a large impact on children’s diets, especially those of low-income youth, who are most likely to be the recipient of school meals. (Story et al.…
Another reason why is I think it would change students attitudes and make them happier at school because there is a lot of people that are upset because they are hungry because they didn’t get to eat breakfast or lunch. If it changed peoples attitudes there would be more success in…
overweight. From the article “Eating Breakfast May Beat Teen Obesity” by: Jennifer Warner it says that "teens that eat breakfast regularly eat a healthier diet and are more physically active in throughout their adolescence.” This also says that “Years later, they also gained less weight and had a lower body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight in relation to height used to measure obesity”. Teens think without breakfast they are losing calories but what they do not understand is without breakfast teenagers won’t have the energy to stay active throughout the morning or that later in the day they might eat enough to regret not eating in the morning (Jennifer Warner). The Article goes on to talk about statistics that show a relation between…
This emphasis on eating healthy could make students more healthy and more active in school, until they don't eat lunch at all and are missing core nutrition needed to get through the day. The county could also argue, healthy options are made packaged and served fresh on shelves where a student can receive their food in a line but it’s missing a key step, there's no real preparation, less man power to make food, means budget cuts on cafeteria ladies, but that's not necessarily a good thing. In an economy like ours it could take away the jobs of hundreds to thousands and maybe with time…
The other benefit with the school lunch is providing variety or appropriate nutrition. Most people say still the kids choice to pick what they want, but if the menu offer them more choice of healthy and variety food, they will find something they like from there. Variety and appropriate nutrition is very important for brain development. The main tings is preparing healthy food, knowing that which vegetables have more fiber instead of starch, less salt and appropriate calories count. The new rule and regulation has this all. According to USDA less oily food and more vegetables and fruit will be serve…
In conclusion, I feel that this program should be implemented across the U.S. The program will make kids healthier, smarter, and more united with one another because all the kids will be eating the same meals. This could catch up the U.S. globally in education.…
It helps focus too it's actually making me hungry now and it's getting harder to focus with a stomach growling at me. It can also make people feel welcome and help interaction between kids in school.18, Senior AABR. Students like myself, believe that we should be able to eat in class. Especially in the morning, sometimes it takes us god knows HOW long to get to school but it TAKES a while. I kid you not, it's harder for all of us if we don't get to eat our breakfast in the morning.…
Sleep is one of the most important things that we all can get and most importantly need. Everyone needs it, especially teens. Most of high school students get seven hours of sleep or less each night.1 The AASM says, school should not start any earlier then 8:30 am.1 We all need as much sleep as we can possible get to enhance our learning. The school start time for high students should become later in the morning since our success rate will increase dramatically in lateness arrival and overall performance in school.…
Research can confirm its importance in adolescent’s health, academic achievement, cognitive development, and mental health (Benefits of Eating Breakfast) The way breakfast can do this is because it provides important daily nutrients such as protein, fiber, calcium, and carbohydrates. According to the Food and Nutrition service the nutrients that breakfast provides improves school performance, which allows students to do better in all aspects of their education (Benefits of Eating Breakfast). Breakfast gives the body the fuel it needs every day to do better in school and life. But with so little time in the morning and being rushed to make it on time to school, many have to skip breakfast just because school starts so…
“Students and teachers should be in favor of later school start time because it results in increased grades, more hours of sleep, and fewer students sleeping in class.” Students should be given a chance to get enough sleep and it may result in higher grades in school and teachers will have more energy to teach student the fundamentals of school better. This method of teaching kids started in 2002 when school boards had the idea starting school at a later time. So students can get a better experience at school…
Starting School Later A big topic in the news right now is students, especially athletes, not getting enough sleep due to a combination of athletic practices and events, homework, and family activities. Having to get up at six o’clock is already extremely challenging, but it becomes even more difficult when students have enormous day ahead of them, including school, practices, homework, and anything else needed to be done. Starting school later would be the perfect solution to this, and would give all students a chance to sleep later each day. Sleep is necessary for proper brain function, and is needed, especially for high school students, to maintain proper health.…
Isn't that what they always told us in school? Don't be a hypocrite, school! Which is why I start everyday off with a huge bowl of Top Ramen. Okay, maybe early school start times aren't the only reason people eat crappy breakfasts. Now you might be thinking...get up earlier, dudes. But it's almost scientifically impossible for teens to get up early.Being tired can not only lead to depression, it can also mean more automobile accidents. Evidence shows that pushing back school start times can actually cut the risk of car crashes. In one county that pushed back school start times, the number of car accidents caused by teenage drivers dropped almost 17 percent. In counties that didn't…
Having a cafeteria in high schools and college’s benefits many students. Instead of leaving for lunch, cafeterias in school help the problem. If people left for lunch, most people could be late to their next class or not show up at all. With Michelle Obamas rule of healthy food in schools, people will be getting the nutrition they need to be up and focused. This provides a balanced diet for better behaviors and learning environments. Also, if people were in school for over 4 hours, instead of learning, they would be thinking about what the next meal they’re going eat after…
An extensive research in Australia and other countries has also found that those who have breakfast have a more nutritious diet than those who do not take their breakfast (“Breakfast”, 2012). Even though you eat lunch and dinner but skip breakfast, you will still lose some vitamins and nutrients that your body needs to absorb during the…