National School Lunch Act

imperative that our schools provide only the most nutritional school lunches and snacks for our students to ensure that their education is not jeopardized by insufficient nutrients. By providing adequate nutrients to students at schools, limitations will be placed on obesity, failure, depression, malnutrition, and so many more problems this world faces due to poor dietary decisions. Since…

Forty percent of children attending United States public schools are overweight, with more than twenty percent classified as obese. Improving the school food environment will only be improved by strengthening school policies and acts which have been the major concern and priorities both locally and nationally (DeJong, Cozier, Greece, Kratze, Quatromoni). School lunch was not a nationwide event, but rather something that took place in individual states and cities over an extended period of time.…

School lunches need a change All around the world, students are starving in school. They don’t get enough. They hate the food and so do I. School lunches are a big problem. It really isn’t the schools problem either, It's the restrictions and mandates they have to follow. It all starts with the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP. It’s a federally funded program that gives schools low-cost or even free, nutritionally balanced meals every day (National School Lunch Program). It limits the fat…

Created in the aftermath of WWII in 1946, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was started out of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to deal with malnutrition amongst children in poverty (Edwalds, 2013). During this period, there was a agricultural excess, meaning farmers were not able to find consumers for their crops. The NSLP allocated cash subsides from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for school meals served in schools (Edwalds, 2013). The NSLP therefore…

Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama created and passed the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act. The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act was put in place by the Obama’s to regulate the amount of salt, sugar, fat in 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…

lunches being served in schools. The United States Department of Agriculture; Food and Nutrition Services has been in charge of this program change, “The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost, or free lunches to children each school day”. The NSLP was created along with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Michelle Obama…

still on the rise. School lunches have grown in size and calories, but decreased in nutrition. Many schools rely on high energy, yet low nutrient value foods to easily fill kids up. In 2010, the Obama administration decided to try and take charge of the growing issue. Policy Identification and Explanation Public Law 111-296, 124 STAT. 3183 is a law that funds child nutrition programs and free lunch programs in schools around the country, sets new nutrition standards for schools, and…

Japanese Lunch Programs Surpass the U.S. on Every Level As most students know, lunch is usually an exciting break from class only to be disappointed by school lunch. Over the past ten years, with the help of Michelle Obama, the National School Lunch Program’s Hunger-Free Kids Act has been implementing stronger regulations and lunches that fit into a 750-850 calorie range for high schoolers (United States). The regulations on calories nutrition have forced agri-food companies to reformulate the…

literature review is to look into the efficiently of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and other regulated school programs. The National School Lunch Program is a federal assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools a residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low cost, or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the national school lunch act, signed by President Truman in 1946. Adding to this…

You would think that students would leave lunch with full stomachs and empty trays, but that is not the case anymore. The government has now imposed restrictions on school lunches that has made the food served unappetizing to many students. These restrictions require limited calories, fats, sugars and sodium while emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy and proteins. This causes there to be very limited tasty options for school cafeterias to serve. Because of this it has resulted in…