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Pizza and Health The aroma of pepperoni and melting cheese overwhelm my senses like a high tide wave as I enter the Round Table. Suddenly, memories of my tenth birthday party rush to the forefront of my mind; I still remember the savory pepperoni mingling with the sweet tomato sauce tantalizing my palate. Pizza isn’t just a delicious treat; it’s a reason to eat together. It creates and enhances memories, what late night cramming session would be complete without a piping hot pizza pie? When I dive into that thin crusted wonder, the last thing on my mind is the nutritional value of this greasy fix. Of course I am not the only pizza fanatic to overlook this fact; unhealthy pizza is celebrated all across the nation. New York is
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This allows for the other flavors of the pizza to become enhanced. The study concluded that pizza with the thin crust and 75% cheese content was the most favored. This modification will allow for college campuses to substitute the greasy salty pizzas with the lighter more flavorful low sodium pizzas. According to an article from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, “the substitution of nutrients provided at levels in a pizza product meeting the HUSSC for usual pizza significantly improved dietary quality of children and adolescents eating pizza for school lunch.” The aim of this study was to compare the daily intake of nutrients of children and adolescents between a pizza product meeting the US Department of Agriculture’s Criteria for Health and a usual pizza product. In this double blind study, they used 337 children from ages 5 to 18. The results indicated that this was a positive way to improve the nutritious value of school lunches.ii In a consumer news article titled a Heap on Health, Denny Sharton discusses pizza and the various ways it can be a healthy choice. “It can contribute a reasonable portion of the recommended amounts from four of the five food groups in the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's Food Guide Pyramid, says Mavia Fletcher, one of USDA 's regional nutritionists. If you 're a pineapple fan, you can make that all five food groups.” Substituting healthier ingredients can decrease the fat content of the pizza; when ordering
The author explains, that growing number of overweight and obese are the result of processed foods and lack of nutritional information serve in the restaurant.
David H. Freedman, a consulting editor for John Hopkins and author of several books, writes in “How Junk food can End Obesity” about the dangers of ruling out Fast Food as a way to decrease obesity in society. He argues that using nutrients to gauge the healthiness of a food is an adequate way to increase health in society, and that most “healthy” foods contain a lot of unhealthy ingredients that do not promote health. He also advocates small changes of about 50-100 calories in meals to encourage people to stay on their diets and promote long-term weight loss. He also points out the severe monetary difference between health foods and fast food. He ultimately wants to promote using the forum of food in society to decrease obesity in society, rather than making the large leap from junk food to whole, natural foods.
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.'
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The impact that the cafeteria pizza has brought to my health is a gaining weight and getting lots of pimples on my face. My freshman year at Clackamas high school , I had gained about 10 pounds just from eating pizza for lunch
segment consuming frozen pizza and fresh pizza from supermarket , but Nestlé should ensure use
School lunches are not the epitome of meals in the world. Raising the level of nutritional output would highly increase the healthiness of the student’s body. For example, if a child were to drink only water at school the health benefits would help that student, just by cutting out the sugar and the calorie intake. If schools were to serve grilled chicken instead of fried chicken, the student would not have that extreme carb intake just from the fried part alone. Chicken and vegetables should be the entrée for most school lunches, of course, this does not allow for a great variety of meals, but the healthiness of the students would increase over time and could possibly be the healthiest thing they eat that day, but the only thing that they eat at all. The poverty in Mississippi is abundant, which may mean that children do not get three square meals a day, but maybe only one, which is at school. Therefore, the best way to affect student’s healthiness is by putting good, nutritious, and energizing food on the plate in front of
Eating a healthy diet is instrumental in the reduction of the risk factors for several major diseases. Obesity, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are a few of the risk factors that serve as precursors to major diseases, and can be controlled with healthy eating.
Let’s have a look on the concept test for the pizza comparing to that for the Contadina pasta and sauces:
Of all of the problems that dishearten children today, the one that bothers them the most is being unhealthy. Five out of six students from the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School agree that there should be a change in the schools' cafeteria foods; they came up with a solution to help kids be healthy. Unhealthy foods should be eliminated in schools for many reasons. First of all, kids concentrate better when they are healthy. Being healthy helps children to concentrate better because if they are healthy in the inside and the outside, they will not have to worry about their health or how they look. Secondly, having only healthy foods in school help parents to take good care of their kids. For instance, imagine a mom that is a seventh
Substitutes: The quality of substitutes for pizza (frozen pizza and other cheaper alternative brands) had also evolved to a point to which the additional price for consumers to pay a premium for Papa John’s pizza pies was being questioned.
The organization of Debatewise stated that controlling the foods that students consume is important in combating obesity, as the dieting habits that most people form originate from when they were young. This is why it’s so crucial for schools to introduce healthier options in schools. If these unhealthy habits are developed, the students are “at higher risk for having other chronic health conditions and diseases that impact physical health..”, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These conditions can affect them emotionally and physically, including depression and obesity, which are important health issues both linked with the consumption of junk foods. The selling of junk food in schools is not a small problem either, as it concludes from a study by the Institute of Medicine in 2003 that elementary schools earn approximately $442 million annually from junk food sales. The importance of changing the school lunch programs to implement healthier options is high when there is so much money being spent by the students. Although obesity is a real problem due to the selling of junk food, it can lead to other problems that leading a healthier way of living could fix. For instance, the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension states junk foods, due to processing that removes vitamins, minerals, and fiber from the product, are empty calories that are ultimately worthless to the body. This alone contributes to unneeded weight gain and provides no additional sustenances that help the body grow. The Harvard Health Publications describes this to be a serious problem, and acknowledge not only this to be a complication, but mentions the unnecessarily high amounts of sodium levels in the foods, stating that “...the average
Have you ever tasted school cafeteria food? I don’t think you would want to. In school story books, do you have characters saying that the food tasted good at school cafeterias? Nope. Why is this? Cafeteria food is often cheap, bought in bulk, high in calories, malnutritious, and microwaved. Student polls and opinions prove this. Therefore, this leads to a suggestion: Healthier, tastier foods and a better, advanced lunch system should be implemented.
The argument that pizza is an “indulgence” food is rendered questionable by the sheer number of consumers who eat pizza each year. With 77% of consumers eating pizza at least once a month the dish may be better described as a “convenience” food, particularly considering the ease associated with ordering a pizza as opposed to cooking every night. The concept of an refrigerated pizza that consumers can just stick in the microwave increases this sense of simplicity, and the steady growth of the refrigerated pizza industry speaks to the motivation being one of convenience rather than enjoying a special treat. As long as it tastes good (something TruEarth has experience in accomplishing), and as long as “low carb” can be stamped across the packaging, there is a high likelihood that a new, healthy, quality-ingredient, whole-grain refrigerated pizza option will do well, even without the luxury of entering a growing market, as was the case with TruEarth’s fresh pastas. Lastly, TruEarth is enhancing the refrigerated-pizza offering by developing a “refrigerated pizza kit” that maintains the sentimental value of a true cooking experience.
Junk food, junk food, junk food is around all corners of schools. Chocolate, cookies, soda, potato chips, and Sour Strings may sound delectable to some people, but are they nutritious? Some people wonder if there should be a change. Encouraging exceptional nutrition in schools is essential by reasons of students will consume foods that are better for them, schools will pay less for meals, and fewer students would go hungry.