School Lunch Menu

The lunches consist of a national dietary guidelines, which includes the “plate model”, a meal that is presented to guide children’s self-service. While in America the lunches often cost for the students.

For many previous years, Anaheim High school has had a couple lunch system changes finally settling on two lunches, both being half an hour long. With both lunches only being half an hour long, for certain, more than one thousand students being in each, imagine the lunch lines! Making line to get your lunch takes already about fifteen minutes, half of a person’s time already, which leaves little time for a student to enjoy their so called meal and free time with friends.Based on other student’s experiences dealing with school lunch, one can rightfully assume that high schoolers would much rather hold in their hunger until after school rather than have the food being provided. There is not a single day that goes by in which a high schooler does not complain about the “worst than jail” food being served to them. This proposal will go into detail about why having an hour off-campus lunch can increase healthier eating habits between the undergraduates of Anahiem High School. In this layout, you will read about the issue of why we believe off- campus lunch would be a healthier choice for Anaheim High school students, you will also encounter our plan of how we intend to carry out this idea, what exactly needs to be done, with the help of who, and so on.

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

One in three Americans kids are obese or over weight which is a staggering and alarming rate at the same time. So looking 20 years into the future that number could double if nothing is said and done about what we are eating. The public school food in school lunches are unhealthy for many alarming reasons, but not much can be done immediately due to strict guidelines and budgets that schools must follow. A lot of it goes to kids not exercising, and more time watching TV, or playing on the computer. And now days more families have less time to make nutritious home made meals. So they tend to eat School cafeteria lunches that have minimal nutrition’s and harmful calories. To prevent your kid from being over weight mean adapting what you eat, and having to exercise at least 60 minutes a day. If the changes are made to change school lunches, it can help them from being obese, children can improve their lifestyle choices, and lastly it prevents them from getting harmful diseases.

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.

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

In schools around Negaunee and around the world there are open campus for lunch. This gives students more option and healthier options for food besides the school lunch or a cold bag lunch. This also shows student that they have to have the ability to manage time. This also give kids time to break up the day and relax.

Authors Alice Waters and Katrina Heron, proposed an idea that more money being put into the food would help the poor nutrition that cheap food gives . This cheap and unhealthy food has shown its way over the last decades. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention mentions that childhood obesity has doubled in the last 30 years, and adolescent obesity has quadrupled. My idea, is that lunches could be five dollars a day. Instead of pizza, chicken sandwiches, and cheeseburgers; each day of the week can have a certain day where cultured food is served. For example; on Mondays, Italian food would be served, on Tuesdays, Chinese food would be served, etc. This is a much more appealing food option than the two dollar lunches students currently eat. This would also benefit the students because they would look forward to the certain day where their favorite food is served, while also being healthy. Another poll I created asked whether my idea of cultured food days would be better than the everyday pizza, chicken sandwich, and cheeseburgers. Ninety-nine percent of the students agreed that my idea was

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

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is one of the largest food and nutrition assistance programs in the United States. (Moore, Gothro, Conway, Kyler, 2014). The NSLP provides nutritionally balanced lunches free or reduced- prices meals to income-eligible children each school day. The program is federally funded but administered through State and individual school districts. Federal government establishes the program rules and guidelines. States monitor funding and compliance of the federal guidelines.

Does every student have the exact same nutritional needs? According to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, all students have similar, if not the identical, nutritional needs. This act focuses on the amount of fat, sodium, and sugar distributed in daily school lunches. The primary purpose of this act is to reduce child obesity in the United States by regulating the calorie intake of students eating school lunches. This act requires lunches contain between seven hundred and eight hundred and fifty calories. Typically, these lunches include one cup of vegetables, one cup of fruit, two ounces of grain, two ounces of protein, and one cup of milk. These lunches fit the needs of several students, however, it is assumed every student fits the

The school lunch has made many changes in the years to come but, most of the improvements were not always good. The assignment that has been presented to me states, what I would believe would make lunch more healthier for everyone at the school. My opinion on the matter would have to be that I would change how the food was made when it is served to the students, if we had people make the food that we ate for lunch then people would start to get into different habits, it would change people's views, and improve other things like costs. There are many reasons why people don't eat right at home but most of the time it is because the students get food that is just heated up from packages and has too many greases and nutrients that are not included in their meals.

b) Some of the statistical evidence justifies the claims being made in the article. These statistics such as: "nearly 80% of schools offered two or more vegetables per meal in 2014 [increasing from the 62%] in 2000", more fruits being offered from 68% to 78%, and a 42% increase in the number of low-sodium variety of canned vegetables

As students, we understand what it is like to be sitting in class and only think about how hungry we are. How lunch is three classes away and the lunch being served isn’t very good. Not eating is bad for your brain and as adolescents our brains are still developing. If we do not eat right or often enough, we could have long term health problems. Without the proper nutrition, teens will start to develop depression and stomach pains. If we supply the school with a vending machine, we can have healthy snacks for that extra boost we need.

Start asking students and friends to do questionnaires about what part(s) of meals they think are the most important.