History Of School Lunches

One of the most controversial issues today is the question of how to address childhood obesity. Because of the large proportion of meals that children, particularly low-income children, consume in schools, cafeteria food has been targeted by dietary reformers as in need of a major overhaul. However, while many different types of new school menus have been proposed, the extent to which healthier foods can be offered remains controversial. Opponents to reform state that children will not eat healthier lunches, and that changing the food that children eat will have minimal impact, since the children will either bring food from home or eat food at home that is more 'kid friendly.'

Everyone loves the idea of a government that truly cares about him or her. Especially a government that would go so far as to layout a healthy diet plan to insure the health of your children and to battle childhood obesity. It is great that the government is concerned about adolescent obesity and the nutrition students receive at school. However, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) Food and Nutrition Guidelines provide more problems for schools and they need to be eradicated, as well as repealing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

Children in America are faced with different choices every day. Some of these choices can be either good or bad for them. But these children don't really know the consequences of their actions, but the school does. Schools are serving unhealthy and un properly cooked meals to children every single day. These food companies make big money from these schools because the schools just buy the lunches so the kids will eat something. The schools don't really care what goes into the students stomachs, but as long as the school meets the requirements it's okay. Then the students just eat it because it looks and taste good, but they don't have an idea of what their eating is made out of or where it has been before. The government needs to start making school lunches more healthy for these students, if not then then unfortunately the number of obese children will rise.

The health of students should be considered one of the most important issues in education. However, as of 2012, the Center for Disease Control calculated that over one third of children and adolescents were either overweight or obese. Not only does obesity cause physical health problems, but can also affect the academic performance of students. Over the past few years, Americans have been working together to find solutions for this problem.

How many people here sometimes look at the school lunch and say to yourselves, "What is it?" Most of us would agree or that if not most of us would. After getting lunch, do you just throw the food away after getting the lunch right away? You might just bring your own lunch because the school lunches have changed? Also you might have a problem with the lunch menu being messed up? The cooks with the lunch should be able to make better food than what is currently being served.

The National School Lunch Program is a federally funded meal program operating in over 100,000 public. It provides nutritionally balanced, low‐cost or free lunches to more than 31 million children each school day in 2012 based on the child's household income (USDA). The program is managed by the Food and Nutrition Service at the Federal level and by a State education agency at the state level. We will be looking at the statistics of the National Lunch Program for five local schools, and compare the number of students enrolled in the districts and the percentage that are receiving free or discounted meals at school. Additionally, the requirements to be eligible to participate in the program, as well as the reimbursement the school

Minden, Cecilia. Lunch by the Numbers. 2008 ed. United States of America, 2008. 28. Print.

The National School Lunch Program is a great resource for schools to use, to help provide children whom may not be able to afford their own lunches. The problem with the program though is that the recent changes to the requirements schools must follow make it difficult to provide lunches that are appealing and fulfilling to students. Schools also find that it is costing them more to try and follow these requirements and there is a lot more waste because students are not happy. The NSLP needs to change some of its requirements so schools can have some freedom in how lunches are prepared so students will be more likely to eat them. They also need to take in consideration that not every student should follow the same calorie count and how not have enough can affect a student, and too much creates waste. With certain changes the NSLP can be successful once again.

School lunches should be in better condition before fed to students. As we know, schools don’t have the best lunches. There have been expired food, “fresh meat”, etc. This is very unhealthy towards kids health. If anything happens to them, the school would be responsible (McClatchy Tribune News Service) . Even though, school lunches are “told” to be healthy they should increase the foods’ healthiness/ freshness.

Many kids throughout the United States (U.S.) attending public schools are continuously being labeled as overweight. A reason for this is because schools are not providing healthy lunches. School lunches are full of saturated fats and refined sugars, which contribute to problems like obesity. Despite this connection, there are some states that are deciding to drop out of the healthier lunch programs, because the cost is too high and the districts cannot afford to participate. Healthy food leads to improvements all over ones body system. For example Vitamin K, which is found in yellow and orange fruit and vegetables or whole wheat, gives more energy than fats and sugar. Improving the healthier lunches nutrition have the potential to benefit

I chose Government Regulating Public School Lunches for my topic. The price of school lunches have gone up several time within the past few years. The school lunch price is now up to $2.70. I think that government should not regulate the food that schools feed the students at lunch. I think that the schools should pay and get to choose the type and amount of food that they feed the students. I do understand that students are bigger than they were 50 years ago, but the times have changed. Maybe the human body is adapting to the type of food that we were eating. But the government is also paying the school to give free or reduced lunches to some of the students. I think that is the only good part of the government sticking their nose in the school

America’s lunch program has been established ever since President Harry S. Truman signed the National School Lunch Act on June 4, 1946 in order to ensure the health of children. (Rafidi 1) Providing lunches for students is essential in order for them to receive the nutrition they need but if one think deeper about this, is the current lunch program really beneficial towards the youth that will soon shape the future? Just recently in 2010, First Lady Michelle Obama stepped up hoping to maintain the growing problem of childhood obesity by inspecting the food that was sold in schools. In a 60 years time frame, school lunch has become an issue that was once thought to help reduce malnutrition to food that may be harmful to teens’ body. This should

Growing kids are like motion. The more force is applied to them or the direction they are being pulled in can make them go faster or slower until they stop completely. The force that pushes them being sleep, healthy food, exercise, water, and activities or items that naturally produce human energy (not caffeine, that stunts growth). The gravity which stops them being the constant usage of these energy producing things.

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.

“Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.” (Subodh Gupta) In 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act gave the federal government additional authority to set standards for food sold in school grounds. This enforced schools to require fruits and vegetables in their school lunches every day. Although this act was implemented, parents of students going to schools still contend that school lunches are substandard and should be amended immediately. For the betterment of children, school lunches should be enhanced due to the fact that it’s excessively fattening, it could hinder a child’s thinking process in class, but it would be difficult to improve it.