New Changes to School Lunch Menus Ciera Jimerson Strayer University Dr. Jeff Kersh ENG115 August 19, 2012 One of the biggest epidemics in this country is children being overweight. As adults we are here to guide and educate children on the benefits, and how important it is to keep our bodies healthy. We have created a new menu for school lunches to ensure children are getting more fruits and vegetables. Changing the menus to school lunches will allow children to lead healthier lives and can also increase life expansion. Lack of nutrition can cause obesity, poor academic performance, and an increase in diseases.
2/5/14 Regarding: School lunches and Nutritional Education at CVHS Waiting in a crowded lunch line just to know that you’re going to get food that you’ll most likely not enjoy isn’t a pleasant experience. Being pushed around and shoved to get an unappetizing school lunch is a problem itself. On the other hand, the problem with school lunches is the fact that the food itself is 99.7% of wondering. Students wonder what is in their lunch because there isn’t a packaging label. I’m currently attending Central Valley High School and I am aware that the school lunches will contribute an unhealthy diet.
Works Cited Abstract: This article talks mainly about the health risks of always eating poorly. Most of this poor dieting among children is what the schools are feeding them. It talks about a large movement towards removing junk food from schools and their vending machines as well. It talks about how dire implementing nutritional foods into schools and taking out unhealthy choices. This article believes that in order to maintain the children’s eating behaviors, they must first implement good eating behaviors in school.
It is important for everyone to get his or her nutritional values everyday. Flood also claims that there have been seven schools in South Los Angeles packing foods on children’s backpacks on Fridays so the students would be able to eat during the weekends. The risk of hunger increasing drastically those children become food insecure so that their own parents are able to eat by the ends meet. Amy Satoh claims, “They’re aware maybe mommy isn’t eating that day.” There has been countless numbers of children being hungry because of the large population close to 10 million. The highest rate of children in food peril is in Los Angeles County, and with highest rate of food insecure that was reported was 83% in
The current California lunch policy is not effective in changing student perspectives about nutrition and health. The current California lunch policy is not effective in some reasons. First kids will just bring their own lunches because it is hard to get rid of old habits, eating junk food. “After California government changed their policy of lunch system, students in Sonora High School bring their own lunches and they are even worse food than other junk food they used to sell. Inside of students bag, There werebag of Hot Cheetos and Doritos.
The geography of childhood obesity is largely the geography of poverty. There's no pretending that differences in income and education are huge factors to obesity. Families that live in low-income areas, like inner cities, don’t have the money to buy healthy foods, nor do they have the access. The nonprofit “The Food Trust”, states that there are 23.5 million Americans that live in communities without grocery store access. These kids grow up eating fast food, believing it is real food, which is more than likely a belief they will continue into
19-45). If the intake of these foods and drinks is not controlled on a daily basis the results in the child contracting Type 2 Diabetes. Though it is not a very common it affects 1-15 per 100,000 children; almost all are obese (Daniel, 2006, pp. 47-67). With seventy percent of mothers returning to the workforce, the parents of obese children have a hard time regulating the food intake (HuffPost Health, 2010).
The child obesity rate is 12% and is a quickly rising crisis across America. One of the most commonly blamed sources for this is the lunches and other foods served at school. If this is such and issue, why can't we have better lunch at school? From personal experience lunches at school can get pretty disgusting. One example is the pizza.
Majority of the times parents aren’t home enough with their child to give them a well prepared and healthy meal, more times parents just came from work and order fast food. These parents need to be told that their children are at risk for poor organ functioning due to large amounts of fat inhibiting normal function, that the excess weight will place unnecessary strains on growing joints and limbs, and that the adipose tissue will have major effects on the metabolic and endocrine systems (Ruxton,
Fast food offers convenience to people with busy lives and often time’s parents chose poor options for their children. “children who eat fast food tend to consume more total calories, drink less milk and eat fewer fruits and vegetables and less fiber than those who do not, according to a study published in the January 2004 issue of the medical journal Pediatrics,” (New York Times, (2010) article pg. 3) Children who consume fast food consume more calories and sugar and often times done get essential vitamins and minerals because there is an absence of fruits and vegetables in their