Obesity and School Lunches Essay

It has come to my attention that the recent obesity epidemic will soon be addressed during next week’s combined town meeting. Students from Algonquin have demanded policy change regarding the requirements for our school lunches. The food currently being offered to adolescents in the cafeteria, school store, café area, and are filled with sugars and carbohydrates, that likely promote an unhealthy diet and continued obesity. Upon watching the documentary FED UP in Health, a coalition of students…

Obesity Obesity is a major concern in many schools around the United States. However many people don’t consider the option of solving obesity in actual elemntary and high schools. There is the attempt of trying to solve this issue at home, not yet many issues like these can be so easily solved if the children are trying to change will go back to their ways in school. Which leads us to try and solve it at school in many different ways such as regulating meals, developing student’s health…

Obesity is a rapid growing epidemic in American. The makers of the documentary Fed Up, producer Stephanie Soechtig and narrator Katie Couric, set out to find the truth behind food and the things that the food industry does not want you to see. The documentary states that the food industry is corrupt and is cause of the obesity epidemic in America. The film starts out with opening credits and news clips playing in the intro. The news clips are saying that obesity is a growing fast, obesity is…

problems that I am choosing to analyze include obesity and heart disease. When comparing Laramie County’s health problems to the state average, the data will better direct and individual when exploring if the problem is specifically linked to Laramie County. Understanding the problems will ultimately allow a person to create an effective strategy to solve or diminish the problem. Obesity Laramie County’s obesity rate is 28% of the population and Wyoming’s obesity rate of 25%; it is clear,…

different types of food that the schools on their program feeds the students. Today this is known as the national school lunch program. The national school lunch program supplies the food and regulates what the schools serve the students. The HHFKA was passed and intended to decrease the rate of childhood obesity,which could in the long run lead to adult obesity. Before the HHFKA was passed the schools were either on their own program or a company 's program. Schools before were not regulated…

School Lunches Every kid thinks about what is for lunch when they get to school it’s the first thing on their mind is what they get to eat for lunch, trust me I know I was a kid once. Parents worry about how healthy their kids lunches are in today’s society. Their are 2 sides to this argument the healthy side and the side that doesn’t care about what they eat but want to have more than a bird serving. People today don’t care how or what they eat and obesity is beginning to become a problem in…

In the titillating New York Times Article, “Our Absurd Fear of Fat,” the author, Paul Campos, describe how the obesity epidemic is being exploited for fiscal gain; despite, very little scientific evidence supporting weight loss as a path to longevity. In contrast, the article, written for the layman, examines how healthy weight truly affects morality. The shocking results leads to claims that the weight loss industry is built entirely on a foundation of pseudoscientific lies. The data that…

failing at weight loss attempts, I eventually took to blaming myself. I never considered that the school system, where I had my most indulgent meals, could have contributed to my weight problem. Being overweight can be psychologically detrimental, through the introduction of such things as bullying and ostracizing. I went through my fair share of weight-based bullying whilst attending a boarding school and wouldn’t wish it upon anyone. Extra body fat is a matter of appearance for many people,…

Child obesity is a major issue that needs to be cut down: therefore, society first needs to find the main issue that is causing it. One main way to show if a child is obese is by calculating their BMI; a healthy BMI for children is eighteen to twenty-four, and the point where they are considered obese is twenty-five to thirty. Francie Berg explains how to calculate a child’s BMI in her book, underage and overweight, “Weight in kilograms divided by height in meters then square the outcome”(Berg,…

should be banned from every school in America” Junk food should be banned from every schools. Banning junk food in school will lead to children making healthier choices, solve the obesity problem, and solve teenage depression. School is the place where every student from such a young age needs to learn how to make right decisions about their eating behaviors. We should teach children to develop a healthy lifestyle from the very beginning. As we know, that school is where children spend most…