Government based school nutrition guidelines have the basis by many that the guidelines combat obesity in children by providing healthier foods and health food environments. This however is not a given, as people oppose that basis and state that the nutrition guidelines actually work to make kids more obese themselves. Others state that not enough information is available to assess the validity that school nutrition guidelines make children less obese. Many do agree with the claim that the school nutrition programs to combat obesity. Some even claim that even an increase in guideline and healthy eating education would help to combat obesity in children further. This paper will analyzes article and journals to see if the claim holds true, is
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The authors state that there is limited knowledge on how “competitive food availability” affects obesity in students. They then look into how the availability of junk foods affects numerous things such as: physical activity and consumption of other unhealthy foods. The authors concluded that “ We find that junk food availability is not associated with significant increases in children 's total consumption of soda or fast foods.” (331). The authors concluded by stating …show more content…
Millimet et. al., they argue that the current schools nutrition guideline are making kids more obese rather than decreasing obesity in children. Millimet et. al. look into participation in school nutrition programs from kindergarten to third grade with 17,565 students in 994 schools (9). From their research they concluded two things, one was that the current “National School Lunch Program (NSLP)” (1) did help to increase obesity in the children through child weight gain between the grades of kindergarten and third grade. The paper also concludes that the “School Breakfast Program (SBP)” (1) is a valuable tool in combating childhood obesity, “Thus, admitting even modest positive selection into the SBP implies that the SBP is a valuable tool in the current battle against childhood obesity, whereas the NSLP exacerbates the current epidemic.” This leads to the authors final conclusion that the SBP is a positive in combating obesity while the NSLP is working to increase weight gain and obesity in
The authors state that there is limited knowledge on how “competitive food availability” affects obesity in students. They then look into how the availability of junk foods affects numerous things such as: physical activity and consumption of other unhealthy foods. The authors concluded that “ We find that junk food availability is not associated with significant increases in children 's total consumption of soda or fast foods.” (331). The authors concluded by stating …show more content…
Millimet et. al., they argue that the current schools nutrition guideline are making kids more obese rather than decreasing obesity in children. Millimet et. al. look into participation in school nutrition programs from kindergarten to third grade with 17,565 students in 994 schools (9). From their research they concluded two things, one was that the current “National School Lunch Program (NSLP)” (1) did help to increase obesity in the children through child weight gain between the grades of kindergarten and third grade. The paper also concludes that the “School Breakfast Program (SBP)” (1) is a valuable tool in combating childhood obesity, “Thus, admitting even modest positive selection into the SBP implies that the SBP is a valuable tool in the current battle against childhood obesity, whereas the NSLP exacerbates the current epidemic.” This leads to the authors final conclusion that the SBP is a positive in combating obesity while the NSLP is working to increase weight gain and obesity in