School lunch programs claim to have their focus on student health, when really, they are more concerned with cost and convince. To ensure that kids grow up healthy and reduce America’s obesity rate school lunch programs need to provide nutrition education and healthy foods to students.
The Article posted on Time “An Abbreviated History of School Lunch in America” by Emelyn Rude this past September shows the way school lunches have been in America since they first became a part of the student’s life. This is interesting because it shows how school lunches started up and how they were originally planned to be, the article says, “These programs were shown to be not only providing growing bodies with nutritious foods, but they were also teaching …show more content…
This article shows how the Hunger-Free Kids Act would force public schools to have strict nutritional standards, with this, “A generation raised on Lunchables and Pizza Hut, the bill’s authors believed, could learn to love whole-wheat pasta and roasted cauliflower” (Confessore 4). Kids will learn to like whatever food is put in front of them. This goes the same way as when I was in elementary school and they told us that pizza is being considered a vegetable, it was commonplace to go along with it, making it harder for young students want to make healthy …show more content…
While this is important, the learning needs to start at school. Students spend a large majority of their day in school, with that, having healthy meals during this time is imperative to the children’s learning process. In addition, not every family is capable to provide their children with a bagged lunch every day. Therefore, the student could be getting their main source of food through the free and reduced lunches. Even with a healthy home, young kids need a guiding hand at school to help them to continue to make healthy choices during the school day. To help young kids grow up to be healthy adults we need to educate them now, we need to provide them with healthier foods, and with that, we can get childhood obesity and even America’s obesity rate down. The most important thing when it comes to a student’s school lunch should be the nutritional value of
The Article posted on Time “An Abbreviated History of School Lunch in America” by Emelyn Rude this past September shows the way school lunches have been in America since they first became a part of the student’s life. This is interesting because it shows how school lunches started up and how they were originally planned to be, the article says, “These programs were shown to be not only providing growing bodies with nutritious foods, but they were also teaching …show more content…
This article shows how the Hunger-Free Kids Act would force public schools to have strict nutritional standards, with this, “A generation raised on Lunchables and Pizza Hut, the bill’s authors believed, could learn to love whole-wheat pasta and roasted cauliflower” (Confessore 4). Kids will learn to like whatever food is put in front of them. This goes the same way as when I was in elementary school and they told us that pizza is being considered a vegetable, it was commonplace to go along with it, making it harder for young students want to make healthy …show more content…
While this is important, the learning needs to start at school. Students spend a large majority of their day in school, with that, having healthy meals during this time is imperative to the children’s learning process. In addition, not every family is capable to provide their children with a bagged lunch every day. Therefore, the student could be getting their main source of food through the free and reduced lunches. Even with a healthy home, young kids need a guiding hand at school to help them to continue to make healthy choices during the school day. To help young kids grow up to be healthy adults we need to educate them now, we need to provide them with healthier foods, and with that, we can get childhood obesity and even America’s obesity rate down. The most important thing when it comes to a student’s school lunch should be the nutritional value of