Lunch, an essential meal of the day for children, lunch is consumed at school. Eating lunch increases our metabolism and gives us energy throughout the day. So, why do you order a pizza, a hot dog, a chicken sandwich? Does your head turn in the direction of the big gooey chocolate chip cookie or a fresh salad? The truth is most students will choose the unhealthy foods for their school lunches. And this is one of the biggest problems in today’s schools. We are suggested to eat healthy but cannot constantly do that with the selections that are offered in school cafeterias. In order to lead children to eat healthier, schools should provide healthier school lunches. School lunches should consist of healthy choices for students.
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Schools may provide healthier school lunches, but some children may not even eat at all because they do not like the choices given. A child from Walker-Jones Educational Campus in Washington, D.C. picked up a lunch complete of nutrition: chicken in a whole wheat wrap, chopped tomatoes and lettuce, a slice of cantaloupe, and milk. Dan Charles from National Public Radio (NPR) asked the student, “What did you do today?” The student said softly, “I threw all of it away.” (2014, pg.1) Public health advocates promote healthier school lunches, but some school lunch providers say these rules represent a waste of time and money because more food is going into the trash. With these different convincing stories, one school lunch provider carried out a small veggie experiment. Carrots with ranch seem to be eaten enormously by students, so schools try to put them in the menu every day. The purpose of the experiment was to cook carrots in different ways so students had a choice of what carrots they liked. The school provider had three different choices of cooked carrots: herb-roasted, mashed sweet potatoes, and Asian-style carrots. Samples of the cooked carrots displayed in the Walker-Jones Educational Campus ready for students to taste. Children started yelling out “I like the last one!” I liked all three!” The point of this experiment was not just coming up with a good recipe but giving children control …show more content…
Traci Baker wrote an article which allows us to see a parent’s viewpoint of raising a child affected by obesity. For Traci becoming a parent represents one of life’s greatest joys. Every parent wants the best for their children, so parents help guide them through life lessons. But sometimes our children face struggles in life. Fear came to Mrs. Baker when she realized her son suffered from being bullied. She had dealt with her son being bullied for four years and each year she prayed for the bullying to stop, but it just became worse. Her son was teased and bullied from the time he stepped onto the bus, until the time that he came home at the end of the day. These horrible comments affected his self-esteem, self-confidence, grades, social relationships, and trust in adults. Mrs. Baker has several struggles as a parent. She struggles to believe that she does not say enough, if she says too much, or if putting her son in counseling at a young age will scare him. Her biggest struggle, reassuring to her son that everything will be alright even though she knows that his next few years in high school will be torture if his diet does not change. No parent or any individual should have to go through heartbreaking or horrible struggles in life. (Traci
Schools may provide healthier school lunches, but some children may not even eat at all because they do not like the choices given. A child from Walker-Jones Educational Campus in Washington, D.C. picked up a lunch complete of nutrition: chicken in a whole wheat wrap, chopped tomatoes and lettuce, a slice of cantaloupe, and milk. Dan Charles from National Public Radio (NPR) asked the student, “What did you do today?” The student said softly, “I threw all of it away.” (2014, pg.1) Public health advocates promote healthier school lunches, but some school lunch providers say these rules represent a waste of time and money because more food is going into the trash. With these different convincing stories, one school lunch provider carried out a small veggie experiment. Carrots with ranch seem to be eaten enormously by students, so schools try to put them in the menu every day. The purpose of the experiment was to cook carrots in different ways so students had a choice of what carrots they liked. The school provider had three different choices of cooked carrots: herb-roasted, mashed sweet potatoes, and Asian-style carrots. Samples of the cooked carrots displayed in the Walker-Jones Educational Campus ready for students to taste. Children started yelling out “I like the last one!” I liked all three!” The point of this experiment was not just coming up with a good recipe but giving children control …show more content…
Traci Baker wrote an article which allows us to see a parent’s viewpoint of raising a child affected by obesity. For Traci becoming a parent represents one of life’s greatest joys. Every parent wants the best for their children, so parents help guide them through life lessons. But sometimes our children face struggles in life. Fear came to Mrs. Baker when she realized her son suffered from being bullied. She had dealt with her son being bullied for four years and each year she prayed for the bullying to stop, but it just became worse. Her son was teased and bullied from the time he stepped onto the bus, until the time that he came home at the end of the day. These horrible comments affected his self-esteem, self-confidence, grades, social relationships, and trust in adults. Mrs. Baker has several struggles as a parent. She struggles to believe that she does not say enough, if she says too much, or if putting her son in counseling at a young age will scare him. Her biggest struggle, reassuring to her son that everything will be alright even though she knows that his next few years in high school will be torture if his diet does not change. No parent or any individual should have to go through heartbreaking or horrible struggles in life. (Traci