The issue with school
The issue with school
How would a student feel if they knew that the USDA allowed the school to provide meals which could make them unhealthy, or even sick? Lunch, as most know, is a very important part of a student’s school day. The food eaten at lunch should provide enough energy to complete the school day as a focused, learning student, and, for some students, to get through after school activities such as athletics and clubs; however, it is being seen more and more often that this is not the case. Chatham County Schools needs to improve its school lunches because the quantity, quality, and cost ratios are inadequate for the success of their students.…
Recently there has been revisions to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and schools were required to overhaul their entire menus to provide the students with healthy and nutritious foods including fruits and vegetables. The new school lunch rules are part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 which has been implemented this fall. (Post Standard) The Hunger Act allows the USDA the opportunity to make reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs. With these revisions come strict guidelines from the federal government that each school district must follow in order to receive funding and reimbursement (National School Lunch Program, 2012, August p. 1). In this essay i will be comparing the positive and negative effects of these recent revisions to the NSLP. I will then discuss whether or not these changes are beneficial to the children receiving the meal and whether NSLP is leaving children hungry or helping children make healthy food choices.…
For millions of U.S. students, a hot meal has been part of the school day since Congress passed the National School Lunch Program in 1946. However, with many items on today 's menus crammed with fat and calories, educators are taking a cue from the local-food movement to put school lunches on a healthier path.…
Have you ever found your school lunch delicious and left the cafeteria feeling full? Chances are not, and you aren’t the only one. Ever since the new healthy foods have been implemented into the school lunches. Students have immediately refused them. These lunches are failing because they refuse to buy them, are extremely repulsing, and are hardly filling.…
." The long list of options includes high-fat, low grade meats and cheeses and processed foods like chicken nuggets and pizza."( Walters & Heron). Does that sound good too you? Would you put that in body? If not why put it in ours?. For a fact about 55% peers agreed that’s not want we want our body's. We want food that is actually cooked and made with healthier products instead of just putting it the oven to just reheat. If liberty high school did change the way the lunch meals are made many more kids would actually buy lunch instead of ditching.Which means you would make profit and less weekends being at school for dention and more time for you.…
To sum up, School lunches are healthy enough because they help foster and low-income children to have meals,it’s helping stop childhood obesity, and helping the government. The low-income children and foster kid will get to eat a healthy lunch and could potentially stop hunger. This plan is beneficial for a national problem, childhood obesity. The government however believes that the government is too controlling and parents can't be trusted. Michelle Obama’s program is very important and they should keep this plan…
If we do not improve our lunches kids will not have healthy eating habits. If we start eating too much junk food kids will get obese and lazy. The school boards should care about what they are feeding their student.…
Do students have the right to eat as they choose? Or are school administrators and the federal government making children sick? Critics and supporters have debated the ingredients of school provided student lunches for several years, yet there has been no nutritional improvement in the quality of food served. While there are advocates, such as first lady Michelle Obama, fighting for healthier food choices, many critics believe the kids will not eat fresh, wholesome food. Numerous studies have found a relationship between the negative health outcomes of students and their participation in the National School Lunch Program, to include competitive foods. Although students have a lot of control over what they eat for lunch at school, they do not…
Ever wonder why you as a student of why you as a parent of a student have been complaining or head complaining about their school lunches. Well there are reasons for that just like everything else in this world. The USDA changed new standards for the school lunch program to try to lower obesity in the United States public school systems. I’m going to tell about 3 main points that I would like to inform everyone about, from the articles of New York Times, Reuter and MSN news. How and why this change came about, how much I cost, and wouldn’t us teens or kids in school have a say.…
According to Teresa Chin with Youth Radio, many schools have decided to try and start forcing children and teens across the country to eat healthier lunches. These lunches were meant to help with the growing rates of childhood obesity. Government officials think that by decreasing portions and…
The new school lunches: Harmful or helpful? Are you tired of eating disgusting school lunches? Since the moment Michelle Obama first enforced the new health standards, kids have been fighting back, and they have a good reason to. No one wants to eat a pile of peas or a whole grain tortilla. The issue is the changes made towards school lunches have been made for the worst.…
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 gone the students will be hungry again making lunch a waste. However, healthy foods will stick with students throughout a longer period of time as well as helping students become healthier. Schools providing nutritious lunches will allow students to…
New legislation passed in the US limits the calorie intake of school meals to 650 calories for elementary school, 700 calories for middle school and only 850 calories for high school students(Health and Family). These calorie levels are only a fraction of what active teens require for their daily intake. In a simple calorie generator found online, I plugged in my gender, height, weight, age, and exercise level to find out my recommended daily intake. My daily calorie need was 3800 calories. This number is fairly high for the average teen, who should be getting around 2,500 calories, but many other athletes require similar levels of energy to mine. Michelle Obama’s new lunch policy requires high school lunches to have between 750 and 850 calories. Using the recommended number given to me by the calorie generator, I found that the school lunches are less than 20% of my required daily intake. This means that at lunch, one of the bigger meals of the day, I am only getting 1/5th of my required calorie intake to maintain healthy energy levels and body weight.…
If the government gave schools a bigger budget for healthier lunches it could potentially save the government money in the future. It could save them money because if the students have a healthier diet they should have fewer health problems, meaning less hospital visit or anything relating. A sane diet could save tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs (Mark Bittman SR1). If they saved that much money they could put that money into something else like…
Throughout the course of a school year, a vast majority of the school's lunch is disposed. For the most part, school lunches, sit in the cafeteria without a single touch being acted upon them. As a student, I’ve witnessed the act which has led to me believe that a change should occur. Moreover, I strongly believe that the reason for the large range of food disposal is generally because of the fact that most students lack eating vegetables and would rather consume something more appealing. In addition, I also believe that schools often tend to waste too much money on foods that do satisfy many students.…