School Lunches get Healthy Makeover from USDA and First Lady. Downloaded from: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-lunches-get-healthy-makeover-from-usda-and-first-lady/ The Journal of Nutrition (Eileen Kennedy and Edward Cooney). Development of the Child Nutrition Programs in the United States. Downloaded from: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/131/2/431S.full Maryland Department of Agricultural. Farm to School.
Many schools offer a la carte items in addition to the meal that is provided each day. The problem is that the National School Lunch Program does not regulate these items. If a child chooses high-calorie additions to his or her meal, his intake is going to be much higher than it should be for lunch, which over time will result in weight gain and obesity. Children who are overweight and obese due to a high-fat diet are at an increased risk of developing other health conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression and high cholesterol. According to a Toronto Star survey, children who get to choose their food at lunch ate more fat and calories than those who were only offered one meal choice.
Childhood Obesity Policy Obesity is one of the leading health problems of the 21st century. According to Ferry, 31.7% of children between the ages of 2-19 and 34.2% of adolescents are obese (Ferry1406). About 1/3 of all children in America are obese, that is an alarming number and it must be lowered. Childhood obesity that develops into adulthood is only second, in deaths that could have been prevented, to tobacco (Ferry 1406). We can now see obesity is the second killer behind tobacco that could have been prevented with the proper lifestyle changes.
[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
Even if such false advertisements are eliminated in the future many more battles are ahead. According the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, cereal companies average three to four unsupported health claims per box. Cereal companies spend $156 million per year marketing to children, and the average preschooler sees 642 cereal ads per year on television, almost all for cereals with little nutritional value (Deardoff,
Obama budget wants to create jobs now, target the deficit later THE NATION The $3.8-trillion plan calls for more spending on community colleges and job training, and blows past the president's promise to cut the deficit in half. The U.S. 'can't cut our way to growth,' he says. February 14, 2012|Kathleen Hennessey and Christi Parsons WASHINGTON — President Obama called for more spending on community colleges, job training, infrastructure, and research and development as he touted an election-year budget that seemed to complete his shift in focus from budget cutting to job creation. Arguing that the country can't "cut our way to growth," Obama delivered a $3.8-trillion budget plan to Congress and blew through a promise to cut
Statistics show that a child with two obese parents has an eighty percent risk of becoming overweight, and a child with normal size parents has only a forty percent chance of becoming overweight. Another risk factor is meal patterns, shipping breakfast slows the metabolism down which slows down the process of digestion. Eating too much fast food is the highest risk to take for meal a choice. Watching television or playing video games instead of playing outside or exercising is a bad choice. Childhood obesity is often the result of genetics and environmental factors.
“.. The center said 26 percent of schoolchildren are overweight” (p.10). What this quote says is that parents are not careful with their child eating habits. The number of overweight children in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. Approximately ten percent of four and five year old children are overweight.
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
A 100% tax on junk food and beverages would help pay for the collateral damages of this industry: the $150 billion in diet-related disease and health-care costs now incurred by the public and taxpayers for obesity and diabetes. Chicago laws strictly curbing school sales of junk food and sweetened drinks may play a role in slowing childhood obesity, according to a study that seems to offer the first evidence such efforts could pay off. The results come from the first large national look at the effectiveness of the state laws over time. The results are minor but “what are the downsides of improving the food environment for children today?” asked Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Children Hospital. “You can’t get much worse than what it already