[pic] White Paper USDA Foods in the National School Lunch Program Food and Nutrition Service USDA Updated December 2008 USDA Foods In The National School Lunch Program Introduction The National School Lunch Program provides cash and USDA foods to assist States in providing nutritious lunches to school children free or at a low cost. From its inception in 1946, the school lunch program has been making nutritious school meals available to school children for more than 60 years. Today, over 31 million school children receive a nutritious school lunch each school day in over 101,000 participating public and private nonprofit schools and institutions. The authorizing statute, the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et al) clearly envisioned a dual mission for the school lunch program: The National School Lunch Act’s dual mission for the school lunch program is to – • strengthen the Nation’s nutrition
students eat school lunches, only 6 percent of school lunch programs meet the requirements established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For example, the average sodium content was twice that recommended, and 80 percent of schools exceeded rules to keep fat to less than 30 percent of total calories. Studies have also shown that most of these selections are processed foods, high in fat and sugar. The findings of the American College of Cardiology by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, found that more than one in three middle school students who regularly eat school lunches are obese or overweight because of there high fat and sugar content. The findings also show that students who consume school lunches are more likely to have high LDL "bad'' cholesterol levels than kids who bring lunch from home.
THE PROBLEM In the past decade, school provided lunches have been a serious reason for unhealthy eating habits of children. School Lunches contain about the same amount of fat as a happy meal at McDonalds. Along with the extremely high fat and calorie content of school provided lunches there is not enough of the daily recommended fruits and vegetables. The American Dietetic Association reports that only ten to twenty percent of American children meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation of consuming at least five fruits and vegetables per day; and children eat 1/3 of their meals at school.
Carlicia Taylor Leroy Tate ASC-45 30 October 2012 School Lunches Research Question: Why School lunches are becoming healthier in schools? To begin my research on school lunches, I’ve found out a lot of things that are being improved in lunches and some things that are still an issue. On a recent article I found online written by the New York Times called, “No Appetite for Good-for-You School Lunches” it talks about a suburban high school in Pittsburg of students complaining about their lunches how it’s expensive and especially how they’re not getting enough to eat because of the lunch size portions are being reduce to more healthier lunches. But an act was passed called The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which required public schools to follow new
2. Which of the statistics listed in #1 affects you personally and how? Obesity-related medical conditions cost our nation nearly $150 billion every year and account for 16 to 18 percent of our total healthcare costs. This effects me because if people would just eat healthier than the money can go into schools and pay for cops, firefighters, and teachers. 3.Suggest ways that our society as a whole could reverse or improve the statistic in a positive way for each of the statistics listed in #1.
They only have 110 pounds of cookie dough to use each day. Then we were giving the fact that they only have 32 pounds of icing per day. The last two constraints that we were given was the fact they we only had enough oven space to make 140 dozen cookies and they only had 15 hours to make all of their cookies. The formula’s we arrived at for constraints were based of those facts and these here. Plain cookies require 1 pound of cookie dough to make (per dozen), as well as .1 hours (per dozen).
Greene’s crop made up about 20% of GRT Salads production, yet GRT marketed that 80% of their vegetables were grown by Greene Gardens. Both of these companies are stakeholders in this story, with Seth Greene and his company being at the forefront. Greene’s dilemma begins with the FDA’s report on September 14, 2006, when they issued a warning to all consumers to avoid eating fresh bagged spinach. Their report stated that an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 had surfaced in eight different states, resulting in the death of one person and 49 others becoming ill. This initial report stated that the first reported case occurred several weeks earlier, but health officials were unable to determine spinach as the culprit until more cases were reported and they were able to find a common link between them.
The six solutions that I will list can help decrease the amount of poverty. First government can provide a balance Nutrition for those who live in poverty. Nearly 15 percent of American households had low or very low food security in 2008, according to the USDA. In 2010, even more families are food insecure. The government can give out meals for those families that are in dire need of food.
According to the American Heart Association (2006), seven percent of preschool age children in 1994 were overweight. The most recent report done in 2002, says that now 10 percent of preschool age children have weight problems. Alan Greene, MD, FAAP (2006), a WebMD expert, said the following: It’s more than a million overweight kids before they start elementary school. And the number swells to 4 million during the elementary school years. Our kids deserve to be taught to truly enjoy eating healthy amounts of healthful foods, and to enjoy, to revel in, active play – preferably before the bad habits even start.
Should Fast Foods Be Allowed in Schools? “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 percent of children (over 9 million) 6-19 years old are overweight or obese – a number that has tripled since 1980” (What Are Children Munching On?). Though many reasons contribute to this overwhelming fact, one is the overeating of fast food. Because of its supposed “ease” and convenience, fast food has swept the world in a sort of epidemic. The easy way out to being healthy and eating right for ones body, fast food has plagued the nation especially with diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and even strokes or heart attacks.