Persuasive Essay On Regular School Lunches

According to Mr. Jaslow of CBS news the number of children and adults struggling from obesity has skyrocketed, putting them at risk to diabetes and heart diseases at younger ages. This is not what the world was meant for, the more people that eat unhealthy foods and become obese, the more the death rate per year increases. End the madness now and let individuals live longer and enjoy more time with their families. That’s what everyone should want for everybody in the

Some students are being ridiculed for not paying the full price or have lunch provided for free. The thought of this is just absurd and it’s a waste of an otherwise good decision. For some students in a school in Colorado, they have their hand stamped when they cannot afford lunch or have it for free. The principal Noelle Roni noticed that a student was being humiliated for receiving cheese bread instead of pizza, making him not want to eat his lunch. Roughly 11 million of 21 million students are receiving their lunches free or at a reduced price. She requested that the students earn the same food so they will not be put down, however she was fired for “unprofessional conduct” and was forced to resign. She stated that “I believe that I was retaliated against for standing up for children’s rights and against activities that stigmatized children.” While requesting for students to get the same food may not have been the best course of action, funding more into the lunches would make sense. Students shouldn’t feel left out but should rather think of it as a benefit to obtain their

In addition, there is no nutritious value in a single school lunch. Amanda Ray wrote, “Processed foods that are high in fat, sugar, and salt have become a mainstay of lunches in schools across America and the results are in, experts say these unhealthy school lunches are a contributing factor to the childhood obesity epidemic.” This shows that school lunches are absolutely unhealthy and school lunches has increased childhood obesity. It would be smarter if families across the United States would pack a more natural and nutritious school lunch for their student starting at a young age. The high in fat, sugar, or salt cause children to become overweight and very

One in six children in the United States do not know when they will get their next meal. Children who are facing hunger struggle in school, are more likely to repeat a grade, have developmental concerns and have behavioral problems. The National School Lunch Program has brought meals to millions of children from food insecure families for free or reduced rates.

Off campus lunch should be allowed at Hebron High School in order to have a more spacious environment for the students , more time to do things and giving them more freedom.

Have you ever thought why you’re school lunch looks so disgusting? Have you ever thought what it’s actually made of? Or why doesn’t this look like the way I ate it at home? For some schools, lunches lack in many different categories from visual pleasure to taste. If the school lunches taste so bad, why don’t we try another way to make them better. For a school in Greeley, Colorado, they’re doing just that. They’re firing up their stoves and are ready to get the ball rolling. There are many reasons on why the school is taking such a huge step backwards. Like, the routine of buying reheated foods and serving them without hesitation. The schools budget cuts or the kitchen being too old and small for the process of preparing such foods. As well as, the list of ingredients that do not need to be in the foods and the risks of diseases/bacteria in the reheated lunches.

“Schools that choose to take part in the lunch program get cash subsidies and donated commodities from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for each meal they serve in return, they must serve lunches that meet Federal requirements, and they must offer free or reduced price lunches to eligible children.”("National school lunch," 2011) The school and government have a responsibility to make sure the students receiving these reduced of free lunches have access to a meal that is healthy and nutritious because this meal is their only option for lunch during the school day.

Such as the government having some control over what we eat just like they can have control in smoking laws or wearing your seatbelt law. Others say that the people should be able to have their own say on what they want to eat because its their bodies and their lifestyle of food they want to consume. Since the 1960s obesity in America has more than tripled regardless of sex or race. Today 30.5 percent or 69 million American Adults are considered obese leading to over 300,000 deaths per year. “Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually twenty percent or more over an individual's ideal body weight.

The government with all of its power is now trying to tell you what you can and cannot eat. It is true that America has an obesity problem but people’s freewill should be respected in regarding individual lifestyle choices. Americans should have the freedom to choose what food they eat and the lifestyles they choose regardless of the impact on their health.

Open Campus lunches something I’m sure that would be able to offer many benefits to all of us, students as well as teachers and staff alike. This would broaden THS meal choices, give some THS staff a more relaxed lunch, and lastly provide a chance to improve the responsibility of students.

Every second we lose someone to a one of the most dangerous killers in America; obesity. To tackle our obsession with food, it has been proposed that our government should start to regulate the type and amount of food we eat. This has received shock waves of controversy from our US citizens to whether or not it's even constitutional to set regulations on such items. Sadly, this unnatural obsession with sugar, salt, and fat has landed us on the list of one of the fattest countries in the world. These bans and regulations might cause us to lose a very small bit of our constitutional freedom, but based on the proposals, the health of our country is well worth it.

Have you ever wondered why school lunches taste so bad? Or have you ever wondered why you never feel fully satisfied after eating the school lunch? The Government should not have control over school lunches and the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act should be abolished because Banned food in the U.S. are staples for other countries and they have lower obesity rates, The amount of waste from schools is atrocious and lastly, Students now get smaller portions thanks to the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act.

What if the schools freezer, oven, and everything else they use to cook with just broke? What would you tell the students? What would the students' eat? Well, if we had off campus lunches, then if that problem ever did happen then you have a backup plan. If students didn't have a ride or any money to buy themselves food, then a note would go saying that students should pack a lunch. Off campus lunches are trips that students could take during their lunch to a restaurant, so they can decide what they want to eat. Students at public schools want more freedom and off campus lunches would give them that.

Leaving Campus for Lunch would be beneficial to Privileged High School Students because Students get a chance to take a break from a stressful day or the everyday mayhem of high school. Leaving campus for lunch can also reduce the amount of skipping students do and also give students something to look forward to during the day. Leaving campus for lunch should be a privilege to student who meet the requirements, students may work harder to excel in classes and attendance to attain this privilege

Obesity is a very serious subject that a lot of people take lightly, especially us as Americans. America is the most obese country in the world. Statistics show that 300,000 people die a day in the United States of America due to obesity. This clearly shows that we have a serious problem that is massively underestimated. Obesity is also something that countries all across the world suffer from. For example, Australia is also one of the most obese countries in the world, and 50,000 people die a year from obesity in Australia. That’s 140 people who die per day in Australia. To solve the problem of obesity the prices of junk food should be raised and the prices of healthy food should be lowered and more convenient.