Lunch box

students work hard. However it is hard for them to do their best on an empty stomach. An Indian Land student’s tray at lunch typically features one fruit, one vegetable, a large portion of French fries, and a reasonable amount of the main food item of the day. Students find themselves starving as soon as they get home from school because they are not getting enough nutrients at lunch to keep them going. Students are able to grab more food but must pay extra for this. Restaurants provide healthy…

over half of all infants in the US has participated in WIC. This program is only meant for low-income women who have children that are up to the age of five. Another program is the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act which gives schools six cents per lunch reimbursement. If schools choose not to participate in Healthy Hunger-Free KIds Act they could choose to join the Special Milk Program (SMP). SMP provides 1% or lower milk to children in schools and that…

serve students at lunch? Well many schools serve ordinary lunches such as sandwiches, salads, pizzas, a milk or juice and a fruit. But have you ever wondered if schools served fast food instead, like a hamburger with fries and a soda and not your ordinary pizza with milk with a fruit. Most students today in school recieve served ordinary lunches they don’t eat or they want because of how it tastes and they end up throwing it away. Most of the students end up throwing their lunch or food…

Dear, Dr. Westfall I have been participating as a student in Keller Middle School, and I have noticed a problem. The unhealthy food in school has been an ignored situation that needs to be recognized. In this letter I am going to be explaining to you why we should add more healthy options in the school lunchroom. There needs to be a change in the choices we eat at school. As said in Nation Center for Biotechnology, children with in-school availability of junk foods consume less milk,…

School lunches have become a leading problem in many american schools.”School districts are responsible for feeding hundreds of thousands of students every day, but sometimes the cafeterias miss the mark.“(nbcdfw 2018). The food is so low quality that it doesn’t give students the energy to power them throughout the school day. We need to change the food we serve at school to help out our students and to raise our standards of our school breakfast and lunches. The new food must be healthy and…

Another issue regarding school lunches is that students who run out of lunch money are forced to eat either a pre-packed…

As I was searching through the list of topics, there were three topics that caught my attention. Which were should changes be made to the regulations for foods that are served in public schools? Also should children of parents who do not allow them to be vaccinated be allowed to attend public school? And finally, Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults? First of all, Nutrition leads to strong mind and body, strong mind and body leads to good education, Education leads to…

19). Healthy School Lunches Face Tough Taste Test. The CNN article, Healthy school Lunches Face Tough Taste Test, discusses how some schools are opting out of the National School Lunch Program because the children are not liking what they are being served therefore they are either bringing lunch or going out to get lunch at the nearby fast food places. With an open campus, kids can leave as they please. This is leaving less money being spent in the cafeteria. The USDA says that 1 million fewer…

Schools are required to make their lunches healthier, whether they have to add fruits and vegetables, to taking food away and lowering the serving amount they give kids. Many students, parents, lawmakers, and administrators say that eating as healthy as the government wants is too costly and that it does not provide enough flexibility for the students. Schools want to make their lunches healthier, because they are trying to lower childhood obesity, because 17% of the children and adolescents are…

There seem to be some issues with this letter, as it falls apart when considering the ratio of the students who like and ones who dislike the meal offered by the Swift nutrition. Firstly, the mother who wrote this letter has only heard about the food from her son and his friends. She has not spoken to other students from his class and not with other parents. It might be that her son is fond of very healthy foods, including excessive fats and calories. He could have plotted with his friends…