Western High School Nutrition Report

The current lunches that are often being offered at Western High School are unhealthy. The main diet at the school consists of fatty and sugary foods that supply little more than empty calories to the students. This implementation plan looks into the prospect of the Western High School implementing a new policy that will serve the students with healthier options during their lunch. The plan is informed by the theory that, intake of healthier foods results to the realization of better academic outcomes for students.
To come up with a conclusion report that contains all the relevant material and information, secondary data were employed and used to make the different arguments related to the adjustment of the current lunch program at the school. …show more content…
It is, therefore, important for the Western High School to come up with a program that provides the students with healthier lunch choices.
Purpose

The purpose of this report is to examine the concept of nutrition from different perspectives:
 The first one will be examining the current trend in the school lunch menus. This is meant to come up with information that pinpoints the missing link in the current foods that are being served by the school.
 The second one will bring to light data that justifies the improvement in the nutritional value of the school lunch menus. This will be done while still considering the cost and the challenges that come with the implementation of the proposed changes.
The major focus of the report, however, will be the establishment of a link between improved nutrition and the academic outcomes in students. …show more content…
Working Definitions

This analysis will be majorly informed by the aspect of nutrition, nutrition needs to be understood from a number of perspectives:
 First is the concept of malnutrition, which refers to the discord between the amount and kind of nutrients that an individual requires and the amount and nutrients that the individual’s body is receiving (Taras, 2005).
 Under-nutrition is also another concept that refers to the lack of nutrients or calories that an individual’s body experiences over time. Over-nutrition, on the other hand is the opposite, where the body experiences the influx of extra calories, but is characterized by diets that lack certain important nutrients (Leos-Urbel, 2013).
 Diet quality is another important concept that will be widely covered in this report and refers to the analysis of the consumption of nutrients or different food groups. Diet quality may involve the analysis of the two aspects separately or concurrently (Nitzke et al.,