Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act Essay

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act: Taking Control of Students Eating at School Is the HHFKA (Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act) really improving child nutrition while saving them from hunger? Through my research I have realized that there are many different viewpoints and opinions on this issue that are taking place in schools all around us everyday. The purpose of this act is to improve child nutrition. Schools are where we see this act being implemented the most because schools are the only place where the same meals are being served to a large group of children. Schools are an easy place to change to new regulations about what is healthy to eat and what is unhealthy for children at school. The HHFKA is putting strict regulations on school lunches. Children are starting not to eat lunch at school because children do not like the change that is taking place. Coming from my own experience with school lunches, changing weird and unusual foods that were not normally served in a school lunchroom is tough on the children. I was the child that refused to eat what was being served that day at lunch. Since children are not eating the new and unusual healthy foods being served, the children are not getting what they …show more content…
In a different article that ties right into what Finkel is saying, talks about the new regulations in school lunches. The act requires a wider range and amount of foods that are being served. Some parents have also put their opinion in on the issue and said that some children need to be presented with new food multiple times before they will even try it for the first time. Parents believe schools should continue doing what they are told and eventually the students will stop starving themselves and just eat what is given to them. Parents need to be aware of what nutritional program their child is learning in school so, they can follow up at home and help their child live a healthy and nutritious