Healthy Lunches

Do you let your children eat school lunches? Your answer may depend on your income level, time in the morning for lunch preparation, or your concern for your child’s health. Schools should continue in improving the nutrition of school lunches; however, physical education should also be mandatory from Kindergarten until senior year. Recommended levels of physical activity counts as increasing heart rate to breathe hard for some time of a total of sixty minutes per day, for at least five days a week (Wexler, 2010). Most schools focus on providing low calorie lunches, and although it is a fine goal in reducing childhood obesity, schools should also provide a variety of

What is does every kid look forward to during their school day? Lunch and recess. What kids eat at lunch reflects on the rest of their day. That includes energy levels, academic performance, and how much they engage. Meaning a poor lunch that is high in fats and lacking nutrition results in a sluggish child and some claim is a factor of the childhood obesity epidemic. School lunches should be reevaluated to provide students with a nutrient balance diet to help supply children with healthy brain functions to increase productivity in school, promotes beneficial future eating habits which can prevent further obesity issues in children, and it promotes an increase of attendance. To change what the schools here in the United States serve children food we have to take a deeper look into who is in charge, analyze the current standards and policies, and compare it to what a proper diet should be for children.

Since 2009 Schools have been improving there healthy choices of food like fresh fruits and salad bars,but those foods take longer to eat (Hellmich). Turning school lunches into an actual sit down meal rather than a feeding frenzy is a good way of improving health (Parker-Pope). Students usually have less than 20 minutes to eat lunch which makes it less likely for them to choose the healthy choice (Elsevier). Kids often like to eat there favorite foods first,not giving them enough time to eat the healthy food (Hellmich). An increase in school lunches could encourage students to eat the healthier choice(5 Elsevier). School nutritionist suggest that students need to have atlas 20 minutes to eat (Hellmich). Research shows that when people consume meals faster they take in more calories because they get hungry sooner (Chen). The shorter lunch periods are starting to lead to more and more obese and overweight kids ( Hellmich). Doctors are saying there are more and more kids getting diabetes and other illnesses due to the lunches and something needs to be done about it

ways that school lunches can be improved, but the most effective ideas are by improving the

The author’s intention is to inform the reader that the healthy lunch programs are failing. The author provides plentiful information and research on the failing school lunch programs in the U.S. “In the war to get America’s children to eat healthier, things are not going well.” Kids are not eating their vegetables. This has become a big problem in America and steps need to be taken to stop unhealthy eating. Like The Agriculture Department mandating that students in the federal lunch program choose a fruit or vegetable with their meals. This solution didn’t work and actually worsened the problem. “Their consumption of fruits and vegetables actually went down 13 percent after the mandate took effect.”

In numerous incidences around the country schools have reportedly denied their students school lunches because their lunch accounts are overdrawn in some cases by only a couple dollars (Green). Also, traditional packed lunches are under fire, in part, because some administrators who feel that the lunches are not nutritious enough for students have banned them (Eng, Hood). Because some school children are going hungry and have no other means of obtaining a meal during the school day, the school lunch program needs to take additional measures to ensure that the needs of all US students are being met.

Childhood obesity is a horrible thing to live with. “In 2012 1 in 3 American children were overweight or obese.” (pg.1) It gives your life many struggles such as self esteem. The child may be self conscious on how they look and can be affected mentally by not being happy with their life. The part of childhood obesity is the health effects. The child can develop diabetes or cardiovascular diseases or breathing problems that can potentially lead to stroke. That is all very horrible and is even worse for a child to live with. With healthy lunches the children will make better food choices that drastically and positively change their life to good health.

In the article about fixing school lunches is a great idea because it can help kids lose weight and getting on a better new diet. Some kids think that they don’t need to diet because they're small or they shouldn’t care, but they should cause when they get older they're not going to be in very good shape. It is also a good idea because it an instructional tool to be healthy.

Is there such a thing as healthy school lunches? Although school lunches are not always what a child wants for lunch, they do provide the child with the accurate amount of nutrients needed (Prynne etl. 2013). However there are pros and cons to school lunches, just as there are pros and cons to packed lunches from home. This is because they both provide the child with different styles of foods. Where school lunches are required to have a certain amount of calories, packed lunches are up to the child/parent to determine what gets packed which of course determines the

Are you working and always have lunch outside? Now, you can keep bringing the healthy lunch by putting it in the right packing lunch. Packing your lunch will make your life easier during the busy workweek. By packing your lunch, it means that you are allowed to control the quality of your food as well as the portion size. You also can get the well-balanced meal by choosing foods from a variety of food groups and avoid the fast foods.

School lunches are important because it affects the health, lifestyle, and education of kids. Kids need nutrients in school lunches because then they can become healthy and grow up to be strong and healthy adults. School lunches are also important because by eating healthy, it will give kids energy throughout the rest of their day. Kids will also be able to focus in school because healthy lunches will help kids stay alert and their grades will improve. If kids are eating unhealthy school lunches, they will not be able to focus in school because they are not getting the nutrients they need. Healthy school lunches will prevent kids from becoming obese and healthy school lunches will improve the health of kids. The medical cost would also be

Did you know that school lunches have a great way for kids to eat healthy and get the nutrition, protein and vitamins that kids need to be healthy and proactive and use the energy that kids have built up inside their bodies to accomplish their goals that they have set for themselves?School lunches are a great way for kids to eat their vegetables and enjoy foods that are healthy but delicious at the same time.this is important because students/kids should make sure that their body have enough fat and protein to keep them both insulated and healthy.

School lunches, the fight to provide healthy food for kids at school, is a battle that has been going on for years with little progress. Here at SVMS, precautions have been made to help kids make healthy choices, sugary sodas aren’t sold, candy isn’t available for kids to purchase, and there is a health program that teaches kids about nutrition, but kids can still be found with lunches made completely up of chips and other unnatural food products. I think there is a different approach to helping kids get the proper nutrition, by focusing not so much on the calories and percent of sugar in each food item, but the context of where the food came from, and how the kids attain it.

While studies have and will always continue to be conducted all over the world regarding school lunch programs and their effect on children’s health, one study in the Michigan area concluded some alarming statistics. Children who ate school lunch compared to children who did not eat school lunch were more likely to be overweight, and have higher levels of cholesterol

Providing healthy lunches and snacks helps children form healthy eating habits that can last throughout their lives.