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In No Lunch Left Behind by Waters and Heron, published in the New York Times, they discuss how spending for lunches is being put towards things in the actual cafeteria; for example the air conditioning and refrigeration.
This idea of not eating the school lunch is mirrored in Waters and Heron’s article where they indicate that the school lunches are not healthy and delicious which is most likely making kids avoid school lunches.
This does help towards the amount of fruits and vegetables a child should be eating per day but only providing one, and small, item is not beneficial towards a student's health.
At a friends school in New Mexico
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When looking at the money being given towards school lunches it is near $9 billion per year which would seem to be just enough to create a healthy meal plan for students.
Since the new schedule was created at Fullerton students feel they have less time to get lunch so do not bother going off campus, therefore not eating lunch at all.
Brody says that the obesity epidemic is present in America, and while that is true it most likely has very little to do with school lunches.
Under the National School Lunch Program every school lunch needs to “include milk, fruits and vegetables, a grain and a protein” (David Haugen and Susan Musser).
A student, Ari Velardi, claims to have gotten cinnamon toast pancakes that she says were “gross” and “moist to the point that it would flap about and fall apart.
If things like freshness, nutrition, variety, accessibility and dietary needs are taken into account more students will actually eat the lunch.
More variety would also benefit the consumption of lunches by bringing in food trucks, local businesses and even student culinary

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