Unhealthy school lunches are a problem for the reason that occasionally, students have classes early in the morning and do not have enough time to eat at home so they need to purchase food at school and the first meal they consume should be healthy. Healthier options should be offered at Joliet Junior College since it would encourage the students to live a healthier lifestyle, students spend the majority of their days at school and should eat…
America is criticized from all over the world for our school system. But, not even just our system, our lunches too. People everywhere have had great ideas to fix this obstacle in our overall school system. Even though people have great ideas to solve this, the government usually throws them away, or the people do not stand out and put effort towards resolving the dilemma. Well, here I am, taking a stand. America needs to change how much, when, and what we eat as students, and I believe we can.…
Healthy School Lunches A balanced diet for a child helps contribute to their physical and psychological development. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the main source of food in schools, reaching around 31 million children (Jeon, Kim, and Kim). Children consume around a third to a half of their daily calories in a school setting (Schanzenbach). Schools are the best place to implement policies to provide students with nutritionally balanced meals, as children consume a large portion of…
Education Poor dietary intake can lead to low energy levels, obesity, drowsiness, and in some more extreme circumstances, blindness, mental retardation, and even death (Barbosa Gonçalves, Thimoteo da Cunha, Stedefeldt, & de Rosso, 2015). Receiving a healthy and wholesome nutrition is vital to ones education, productivity levels, and overall well-being. It is imperative that our schools provide only the most nutritional school lunches and snacks for our students to ensure that their…
Lunches at school should be better because, having better choices like food being organic or having a healthier lunch choices are better for students. Most schools do not have healthy choices to start with.”In 2006, 11.7% of elementary schools, 19% of middle schools, and 23.5% of high schools served brand-name fast foods, such as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or Subway. Despite these improvements, many school lunches still contained too much fat, sugar, and salt and not enough other nutrients, and in…
Because kids don't want carrots or apples, they want French fries and hamburgers. Obesity is a very large and rapidly growing problem in our nation. It starts out when you are young but most people still struggle with it when they are older. Childhood obesity is the beginning of obesity so we need to control it at a young age. “What a horrible place we've come to in this country. We're in the throes of an obesity crisis, and diet-related illness is on the rise. The CDC has stated that of…
Love Your Schools is a program to prevent childhood obesity by teaching elementary school children in Little Rock how to eat properly and stay active, as well as the pros and cons of doing so. I wasn’t sure what to expect when going in for my service learning project; I tried to avoid expecting anything. When I got there, I was pleased with how smoothly everything went. I was aware ahead of time that I would not be teaching the nutrition plan alone. Two workers from Americorp joined in to help…
senior girls piling into a small tan beat up car. It’s just like any other day, the sun is shining and they are all laughing and having a good time. They are just going out to get something to eat during their lunch break at school because their school allows off campus lunches. One out of the three girls buckle, the other two did not even think about buckling. They pull out of the parking lot on their way to Dairy Queen, the music was cranked up to loud and the sun was shining right into the…
Obesity Epidemic Fast Food corporations are multi-trillion dollar companies. They produce advertisements all over the world and are willing to spend over $4.6 billion dollars a year in advertising alone. These companies want to illustrate how easy, convenient, and cheap, their food is, but nutrition is not their main concern. Fruits and vegetables on the other hand only produce about 116 million dollars in advertisements in a single year. Compared to fast food, the price of a hamburger is about…
It is no secret that America is in an obesity epidemic. The majority of public schools are only making this problem worse. The school lunches that are provided to students are unhealthy, lacking in taste and quality, and are extremely underwhelming. This isn’t only a problem with lunches, the food in the vending machines is also very unhealthy. The lunches also do not cater in the slightest to children with food allergies or restrictions such as vegetarian or vegan. America is failing their…