Play Hard" campaigns, and petitions like, change.org, forcechange.com and thelunchtray.com, these were all steps in the process of getting our kids the nutrition and health changes they needed. Now, that the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act has been implemented our schools now follow the following guidelines to ensure we are promoting a healthily eating and physical environment for our children. 1) We use a coordinated approach to develop, implement, and evaluate healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices. 2) Establish school environments that support healthy eating and physical activity. 3) We now provide a quality school meal program and ensure that students have only appealing, healthy food and drink choices offered outside of the school meal program, i.e.
If children do not like the first choice of food given to them they will have another nutrious alternative to enjoy. The policy ensures that the food standards are met to be in line with the governments legislation - The Education (Nutritional Standars and Requirements for School Food)
The purpose of the Georgia Eat Smart is to promote good nutrition, physical activity and wellness for k-12 students and their parents. (Barger, 2013) When children become healthy students they also become better students in the classroom. By educating teachers and staff nutrition staff how to teach students to have good eating and physical activity habits will allow the students to make health choices. (Barger,
Parents are the ultimate authority when it comes down to what their children eat. Of course they can’t all always see what their children eat, but if they teach them healthy eating habits they’re less likely to go for the wrong food choice. (junk food) “encourage these kinds of simple polices in the home, they might make some progress against the purveyors of fat food and cholesterol.” (Wientraub paragraph 6) Parents tell their children what to eat from birth they might as well teach them healthy eating habits. Exercise should be an essential part of life. Parents should teach their children good exercise habits as well.
Vilsack feels by reforming and changing the school meal menu into healthier choices that it will in fact ensure a more nutritious and healthy effect on children. Tom Vilsack feels by teaching children the right things, starting with meal intake, will give them a healthy start on life. The second
The children who get their food in school should be provided only with healthy foods. This also provides the child with a balanced diet. The policies and procedures allow the practitioners know what they need to do to promote healthy eating throughout the setting to the
Canady 1 Taylor Canady Mrs. Freeman 7th Period 28 April 2015 Healthier School Lunches School lunches around the world need to be healthier for our body’s health. The things the world needs to work on is that kids are not eating the fruits, vegetables, and grains they need to eat in a day. The people in this world need to help the kids break their habit of eating junk food all the time. The world need to start by taking away some of the junk food in schools and exchange it with fruits and vegetables. School lunch ladies need to give the kids the nutrients they need so they do not gain weight.
Their claim in their essay is essentially that the government is not doing nearly enough in the fight against obesity. By using statistics, Brownell and Nestle show that the money being used to encourage better nutrition education pales in comparison to the money being used for unhealthy foods. “In the same year that the government spent $2 million on its main nutrition-education program, McDonald’s spent $500 million on its We Love to See You Smile campaign” (Brownell and Nestle 525). Brownell and Nestle also states that the “…food industry and pro-business groups use a public relations script focused on personal responsibility” (525). By listing the main points used by the food industry when approached with criticism, it allows Brownell and Nestle to rebut it later in their essay.
We could even lower the cost of health care in the future as well. Unhealthy eating habits contribute to health problems such as diabetes, Madden 3 Obesity and heart problems. The eating habits that cause these problems are our negligence in every way and we must control them at all costs. We have to hold ourselves accountable rather than blaming some fast food place and take control of our lives. We can’t sue Wal Mart for selling us an unlimited amount of chocolates, so why can we consider suing due to the fact that we have consumed too many calories from a meal we purchased at some fast food establishment?
Childhood Obesity Epidemic Everybody is always talking about childhood obesity in the Houston. They say we feed our children junk food, and that they get very little playing time outside, but do you know that childhood obesity happens not only in the Houston but all over the United States? Even in some other countries. The childhood obesity rate has climbed in other cities such as St. Louis, Great Britain, Washington D.C, and Philadelphia. But the main question this paper will answer is, “What causes the childhood obesity rate to rise in these different cities and how can we prevent them?” As we know the main causes to obesity is lack of exercise or poor eating habits, but in these different cities those aren’t the only reasons that childhood