2. Imagine you are a newly appointed school nutrition director tasked with establishing the school’s wellness council. Describe the role of local school wellness councils, the types of expertise of others that you need to recruit and then locate information of a school district wellness council online or an organization offering school wellness council toolkits/resources. Identify which you reviewed and describe 2-3 best practices that you hope to apply as you begin to establish and lead the wellness council.
School wellness councils aim to improve the health of all students. They are involved in the development of a wellness policy for their particular school agency. This policy makes decisions on all foods that are served on campus, which …show more content…
Discuss at least two specific possible moral or ethical dilemmas that could exist when working to evaluate the social and economic effects of the U.S. food system based on your review of How to Assess Food Systems. Consider data and operational challenges as well as marketing in your discussion.
Vending machines provide high amounts of calories, sugar, fat, sodium, etc. I believe this is an ethical dilemma because the providers sell these items at a low cost and they make them easily accessible by the public. They have no regard for the detrimental health impacts their foods could cause. These self marketing machines are located in convenient areas in order to attract the highest amount of sales. For example, break rooms, waiting rooms, and schools. This is also seen more in communities with a higher amount of people earning a low wage. This causes an increase in childhood obesity in certain areas. I think this is why vending machines are an ethical dilemma in the food …show more content…
This app has an array of food items with accurate nutrition facts labels. A possible ethical dilemma with this app is the occurrence of inaccuracy within restaurant dishes nutrition fact labels. There have been times where the menu of the restaurant will have a calorie count that does not match the amount on the app. The app itself is free to download, but there is the possibility to go premium and open up more features. If those consumers are paying for the app to track their calories accordingly, they may be receiving the wrong information. The main purpose of the app is to help improve public health. My opinion on this is that information systems can be beneficial, but they are not flawless. The marketing of this app focuses on calorie counting, so I would assume that the customers expect accuracy. To provide them with anything other than what they pay for is not
School wellness councils aim to improve the health of all students. They are involved in the development of a wellness policy for their particular school agency. This policy makes decisions on all foods that are served on campus, which …show more content…
Discuss at least two specific possible moral or ethical dilemmas that could exist when working to evaluate the social and economic effects of the U.S. food system based on your review of How to Assess Food Systems. Consider data and operational challenges as well as marketing in your discussion.
Vending machines provide high amounts of calories, sugar, fat, sodium, etc. I believe this is an ethical dilemma because the providers sell these items at a low cost and they make them easily accessible by the public. They have no regard for the detrimental health impacts their foods could cause. These self marketing machines are located in convenient areas in order to attract the highest amount of sales. For example, break rooms, waiting rooms, and schools. This is also seen more in communities with a higher amount of people earning a low wage. This causes an increase in childhood obesity in certain areas. I think this is why vending machines are an ethical dilemma in the food …show more content…
This app has an array of food items with accurate nutrition facts labels. A possible ethical dilemma with this app is the occurrence of inaccuracy within restaurant dishes nutrition fact labels. There have been times where the menu of the restaurant will have a calorie count that does not match the amount on the app. The app itself is free to download, but there is the possibility to go premium and open up more features. If those consumers are paying for the app to track their calories accordingly, they may be receiving the wrong information. The main purpose of the app is to help improve public health. My opinion on this is that information systems can be beneficial, but they are not flawless. The marketing of this app focuses on calorie counting, so I would assume that the customers expect accuracy. To provide them with anything other than what they pay for is not