Childhood Obesity And School Lunches Summary

In the article, “Are Our School Lunches Healthy Enough,” by William Rice the article talks about the act Michelle Obama enforces. Healthy, Hunger Free Kids act is found very pointless if the food kids are served still aren’t healthy. Even though this act has been active for 15 years, and 30 million kids have become involved, this act hasn’t been useful. Kids needs are neglected and ignored in Healthy, Hunger Free Kids act.

Healthy school lunches are important for kids for many reasons. Focusing on school lunches is important because it affects the health, lifestyle, and education of kids. Healthy school lunches are a good way to get kids the nutrients they need in order to help them grow and succeed. Healthier school lunches will also help kids get through their day. School lunches that are healthier are good for kids and good for the brain because kids will be able to think and focus in school. If kids eat healthy school lunches, then they will not have health problems, as they get older.

Public schools attempt to provide a healthy school lunch with money provided from the federal government. The federal government provides a little over $3 per student (Siegel). Districts are generally left to pay the bills that maintain the cafeteria which reduce the amount of money that the school has to fund the lunches (Siegel). School lunches may have links to obesity, which leads to the question what type of food are our children eating at school, and what type of effects are caused from school lunches. Going into research has opened my eyes to realize that school lunches are not always the best but it helps to feed the students who are not able to be provided a lunch from home.

Although school lunches are good to some students, others are becoming obese because of them. Healthier school lunches need to be provided at schools, rather than junk food and salt. The first lady Michelle Obama wants more schools to be part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which provides healthier school lunches. The plan is just a effort of trying to get student to eat healthier at school.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, “Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years,” meaning that America’s children need to start eating healthier, including healthier school lunches. The National School Lunch Act is a fairly recent addition to American society. For, as the world waged war a second time, the United States began to worry about the strength and health of the country’s soldiers. However, in the beginning, selling excess agricultural goods was more important than building a healthy, well-balanced meal for students. Unfortunately, many children coming from poorer families could not afford well-balanced school lunches, so in order to compensate, the School Lunch

Parents should continue to support the school meal standards program that Michelle Obama, the first lady, has made a campaign for. Michelle Obama has devoted herself to this campaign and is not trying to do anything other than to help the health of students around the United States. Many schools are involved already, and it would be more effective and helpful if more parents got involved with the way their children eat and make choices at school everyday. Even though students will argue that the new food that is served for school lunches is gross, there are more factors that are more important and relevant to the purpose of this campaign.

All of the sweets and treats you remember from school lunches are now gone. The government now controls school lunches through The National School Lunch Act. This legislation provides school lunches, attributes to healthy lifestyles, puts strict boundaries on what is served, but ends up costing more money in the end.

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Many studies have shown the increasing trend in early childhood obesity over the past few decades. But in recent years that trend has begun to level out and even decrease in some cases. In this paper, these trends will discussed along with the health implications that follow childhood obesity, how big of a problem it has become, as well as how to fix the problem and what we can do in the future to prevent this problem.

Nationally, about 17% of people under the age of 20, about 12.5 million are considered obese. School districts that serve students food that are high in calories and fat are to blame for the growing numbers of obese children. Although school lunches provide students food at minimal costs, the poor quality of food served delivers inadequate nutrition and is responsible for the rising numbers of obese minors in the United States. In order to combat this growing problem, school districts must limit student choices in the lunchroom and provide healthier food nationally. Although some school districts may argue this, it is necessary to do so as school districts in Pennsylvania and Mississippi and university studies support this claim.

Healthier school lunches will help to stop the ever-growing percentage of obese children. According to the CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity is caused when more energy is consumed than energy burned. This means that the heavy, caloric lunches that are being served across the nation are too sugary and lead to obesity. Healthier school lunches also mean that purchasable sugary snacks will have to disappear to keep students as healthy as possible. Moreover, a YRBS (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) survey was conducted every other year since 2003. Since 2005, states such as Oklahoma, Nebraska, Delaware, and New Mexico have had a rapid increase of obese teens. Oklahoma’s teen obesity rate rose 2% between 2005 and 2015,

Opponents stayed that schools around the united sates have change school lunches and now schools use more fruits, veggies, whole grains, and less salt, in the meals, but is it true? “The improvement to school foods in the last three years is

PE is something that high schoolers have to go through in high school. For some highschoolers they enjoy it, but for others they hate it. Some people enjoy because it gets them out of the classroom environment and lets them have fun playing sports with their classmates. For other students they may not enjoy it because they can be lazy, non-athletic, or maybe obese.

First of all, kids enjoy the healthy nutritious food being served to them. According to the infographic,”In elementary schools, 70% of food staff and school administrators say students like them.“ In other words, more than two thirds of the students in schools are enjoying the healthy food. The evidence highlights that, schools should continue serving healthy lunches because more and more kids are liking the veggies and proteins. For example in the text it states,” For instance, many high school athletes needed more protein than the guidelines allowed, so the government changed the rules.” Basically, the article is saying that some athletes needed more protein than they had so it was necessary to give healthy lunches. From this we can infer that healthy lunches should be served because students are needing the protein from the beneficial food. As one can see, healthy lunches should be given to students because they enjoy it and they need it for energy throughout the day.

In my opinion school lunch wouldn't be that bad if the healthy hunger free kids act didn't make sure that school lunches are healthier. Greasy pizza, salty French fries and sauces up chicken wings are not healthy and that meals at school should be lower in fat, calories and sodium and contain lean proteins, more fruits and vegetables. But school lunches shouldn't be mostly whole grains because personally I don't like whole grain foods and since my school started serving almost everything whole grain, I rarely eat lunch because kids don't like whole grain or wheat bread. If my school and other schools should start serving white wheat bread, because white wheat doesn't taste like wheat bread, it tastes like regular white bread l, and if schools