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Healthy Eating Programme at School Essay

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Healthy Eating Programme at School

This report is being submitted concerning the new 'Healthy Eating Programme' being introduced at School. It is hoped that this report may help with developments.

The 'BYTEZONE'

The Bytezone is a catering facility in Coedylan School where food is available to buy. The Bytezone sells baguettes, slush puppies and some drinks. The Bytezone used to sell snacks in the vending machines but now have stopped.

Vending Machines

Some food and drink has been removed from the vending machines at the 'Bytezone.' There is a positive side to this and that is that there are shorter queues at the vending machines which means that the 'Bytezone' is not so …show more content…

Also the price of these drinks has increased greatly the old bottles of water cost 40p and now all of these drinks cost 80p. If the school would like pupils to drink water rather than fizzy drinks then the school should install a water fountain/machine for pupils to get free water.

BACKGROUND

In the past, Coedylan Comprehensive has sold snacks such as Walkers crisps, varieties of chocolate and cookies and drinks such as Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite.

* The availability of crisps has now been changed to Walkers 'Lites.' The reason for this was because the Walkers 'Lites' are supposed to have less fat than in original Walkers crisps. Tests have shown that there is no difference in the amount of fat so why has the school decided on changing the availability of crisps? Walkers have named their crisps 'Lites' because there are less crisps in the packet which means that the packet is lighter than the originals.

* Cookies were not served at the vending machines but were sold at the Bytezone. Coedylan has now reduced the serving of cookies to one week in a month. The reason for this is that the chocolate inside has too much fat. The Healthy Eating Programme is supposed to improve pupils' behaviour by not giving them as much sugar, if so then why are such snacks as cookies and

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