What are our kids eating while at school? This topic is important to me due to my kids starting kindergarten this year. After my daughter came home from school and informed me that her lunch served to her in the cafeteria made her “tummy” hurt, I decided to ask around about the food they serve. After talking to a few moms, who by the way are on the school board insisted that I pack her lunch every day because the food is absolutely disgusting and far from healthy. One mom told me she refuses to allow her children to eat anything that school serves. This bothers me and frustrates me to no end. As parents we trust that our children 's teachers care for their students and want what is best for them, we assume the school board wants what is best …show more content…
Due to the amount of options kids have for lunch, most are going to choose a cheeseburger over a salad, brownies or ice cream over oranges or apples, even soda over milk or water. We must set regulations on what our kids take in in a day. Most parents do not have to time or money to pack a lunch every day or even every other day, and they rely on the school lunches. There should be one item on the menu for the main dish, and more helpings of fruits and vegetables. More than breakfast or dinner, kids have a lot of control over what they eat for lunch at school because they decide, they pick from a menu and that’s what they get. A kid can choose to eat the salad, eat the carrots or simply throw them out without getting in trouble. A kid also can choose to eat an apple instead of an ice cream sandwich. If you look at the pictures of school lunches from other countries you will notice the vast difference in the lunches. In Brazil there was a picture of the lunch typically served, pork with mixed veggies, black beans and rice, salad, bread and baked plantains. In Italy they typically serve local fish on a bed of arugula, pasta with tomato sauce, caprese salad, baguette and some grapes. The location seems to make a huge difference in quality and quantity of the food. I highly suggest everyone taking a look at this website. (Photos Of School Lunches From Around The World Will Make …show more content…
An idea is to hire professional chefs to come to the schools to cook for our kids. Also the schools needs to get their fruit and vegetables from local flea markets to ensure their freshness. The cafeteria workers may not have a background in nutrition or know how to prepare food. We must teach our school cafeteria workers how to make fresh, home cooked meals instead of hitting up some chicken nuggets or pizza from the freezer. Knowledge is power and we are holding our kids back from having proper nutrition. The advantages to hiring a chef to come teach our cooks to make fresh meals is the calories we are saving our children from. The advantage of getting fruits and vegetables is that they are locally grown, no preservatives to keep them
I don't think our school lunch is healthy because it has fat and too much sodium. Although it is good it is fattening it is the reason for much of the obesity in the U.S. Many kids have no other option to eat the unhealthy school lunches or they will be hungry.
But, if they do not like the food served, they won’t eat so they starve for the rest of the school day, which can lead to not focusing on class, feeling sick, and eating too much at dinner. The final reason our school should get a new lunch menu is because there are many problems with the food. For example, many students say the food is cold, fake, and disgusting. Students, Jordyn Gilbert and Leah Gelik, found mold on the lettuce in the salad.
“Our Schools need to start teaching kids how to be healthy.”- Unknown. School lunches have created a chronic problem in a school setting, and since it hasn't been fixed, 6-11 year olds have had a 17% increased chance of becoming obese (Centers for Disease control and Prevention). Most school districts don't even bother changing the food restrictions just so they can please their students. Unhealthy school lunches are a huge problem among children in the United States, it can cause obesity, stress, and many other problems.
Soda’s are leaving vending machines and being be substituted with less-sugary drinks, bread is being substituted for whole wheat and milk is being substituted to fat free milk. First Lady Michelle Obama took it into her own hands to provide the United states children with food that meets nutritional standards. “Through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by the First Lady and signed by President Obama, USDA made the first major changes in school meals in 15 years, which will help us raise a healthier generation of children.” (Leonard). Healthy Hunger- Free Act went into effect in 2012 some of the changes were that meals needed 5 components: grain, meat, fruit, vegetable, and milk. Students MUST take at least 1/2 cup of fruit OR vegetable for a meal.
Lunch is one of the most important meals of the day and is consumed mostly in school cafeterias for children and adolescence. Wholesome lunches are vital in maintaining a healthy metabolism and give children energy for the rest of the school day. Children are advised to eat healthily but do not always do so because the choices of tastier, fatty foods offered in school cafeterias. The National School Lunch Program, NSLP, which is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools set nutritious guidelines for lunches served in school cafeterias (USDA). However, school campuses still offer foods high in fat as well as selling candy, chips, and soda in their vending machines, as well as their school shops. In order
Thirty one million kids nationwide eat school sponsored meals twice a day for a hundred eighty days and on average for twelve years. In this sense school lunches are an important and critical component of childhood nutrition and development. Yet these meals are highly processed and filled with chemicals and preservatives. School lunch rooms are essentially fast food restaurants; they unload shipments of frozen food then heat it up in glorified microwaves and serve it hot and ready. This is the same basic principle of fast food restaurants and people all know how terribly unhealthy fast food is for them. Still America feeds this toxic material to kids every day. This has been a tremendous issue for years but it is more devastating now than ever before.
School lunch is an obvious problem that has yet to be fixed. Mark Samuelsson once said, “We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.” A well know fact to almost all students and their parents is that there are many problems with school lunches and it needs to change. Not only is school lunch unhealthy, but it also does not taste good most of the time. Some people feel that school lunch is not that big of a deal so it should be very cheaply processed in factories and preserved, but that is not the case. In order to solve the lingering
States could require schools to serve healthier and more affordable meals than they currently are. They could have meals that all had the recommended amounts of grains, fruits, vegetables and protein for children. They could also ensure that it would be cheap for students to eat wh...
In America itself only about two percent of kids eat a healthy diet. The topic I
School cafeterias are one other place for unhealthy foods. Most Schools have fast foods sponsoring them. Some school lunches are not that good or cooked right. Some school lunches are not that healthy either or not that good for the digestive system. Cafeterias should have better selections on the menus. The government has supported the school lunched and have it be in portions that the plate will be healthy. On most school lunches even breakfast have some healthy food choices but not that much. So, the government will say the cafeterias having the same menus. School lunches should have the menu have healthier options.
With the implementation of the “Healthy Kids Hunger-Free Act” schools are not serving as many lunches and participation is decreasing. According to the Government Accountability Office (GOA), “Nationwide, student participation declined by 1.2 million students(or 3.7 percent) from school year 2010-2011 through school year 2012-2013, after having increased steadily for many years”(sec. 1). The school lunches became more distasteful and bland; the combinations of foods did not make sense, and the portion sizes decreased significantly. In order to support the cafeteria
To conclude, unhealthy foods in the cafeteria and the vending machines are the worst examples for the kids to maintain the healthy eating habits. Us Parents have to step in to make changes for our kids because in doing so would determine what kind of foods our kids are consuming. We do know for facts they are not getting the proper nutrients while in school, although they do spend in average of eight to 12 hours in schools. We, the parents, can start to make a difference, by attending the school meetings and being active in our kids functions in schools.
How could I Improve the Food at the School? Kids hardly eat at school, yet when they do it is unhealthy. Parents don’t have time to prepare a lunch for their kids since they have a million things to juggle around with. However, they do believe that their kids will eat at school and not skip lunch and starve especially if they are constantly working and getting exhausted for 8 hours a day. On the contrary, the food they offer at school campuses and the food they offer at jobs are not the same.
This essay is about the movie Gone Girl. This movie is dark and thrilling. It welcomes you into the world of mental illness. What you think is real isn’t actually real. This is because of one of the main characters, Amy Dunne. She is the wife of Nick Dunne, a cheating husband. To get back at him for cheating, Amy frames her husband for murder, and she does ruthless things to convince the police she’s innocent. She fakes pregnancies, forms a friendship to spread lies about her husband and even tells the police she was raped to justify murder. Mental Illnesses aren’t typically viewed as dangerous. However, the topic of this essay revolves around a dangerous mental illness. We will be diagnosing Amy Dunne with Antisocial personality disorder, commonly known as “psychopathy.”
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH) about one–third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 9 are considered to be overweight or obese. That means that 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 9 to 19 are considered to be obese. That is a large number if you ask me and as a student between that age category, I ask myself what can be done to decrease those numbers. School is the place where we students spend most of our time; teachers do not only teach us Math, English, Science, and History, they teach us valuable lessons about life. But the only thing that schools seem to be forgetting to teach us is how to eat healthy and how to take care of our bodies.