Teach Kids About Food

The rates of obesity and food related diseases in America continue to rise. Such as, children becoming overweight due to a constant fast food diet or get diabetes due to a diet consisting of too much sugar. In school, meals are provided for students but the food that is served is less than healthy. Most of the food served is processed and frozen food. While schools do provide meals for students, the food is unhealthy for them; therefore, we must change the food that the school serves.

Everyone loves sugar filled snacks, especially children. A kid’s day can be made so much better just by handing them their favorite candy bar. This is something students looked forward to during their school day. Sadly, this was made to change. Schools started banning snacks, and drinks based on their unhealthy effect they have on individuals. According to Beverly Ballaro and Ann Griswold in "Junk Food in Schools: An Overview,” this change occurred when Michelle Obama launched her project for healthy eating in 2010. Let’s Move! Was her way to fix child obesity in America. This directed schools to feed children healthier options, and twice as many vegetables or fruit. This was not a necessity for public schools across the United States. Students should not be limited to what they eat in school. As long as they are being fed their basic lunch, it should not be important what they decide to snack on.

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.

Moreover, allowing students to eat healthy school lunches will be able to partially obtain their daily nutrition and reduce the risk of obesity. As a result, if schools continue to allow unhealthy foods to students, then the next generation of students will have a greater risk of obesity. It is often argued that allowing schools to serve healthier lunches will not be able to serve a variety of foods. The counter argument is incorrect because schools can serve a variety of healthy lunches to students. According to Corey Henry, vice president of communications of the American Frozen Food Institute states in New York Times article, “From our perspective, the new rules improve school nutrition, but at the same time give schools the flexibility to serve a variety of foods to meet the goals of everyone involved”(Par. 12). Giving students a variety of healthy school lunches will make more students interested in eating school meals. In the meantime, authorizing students to eat a variety of school lunches will also allow them to experience different types of food. Additionally, the new rules give schools a better nutrition guide to help students eat healthier. Therefore, students can reduce the risk of obesity and other health diseases.

Over the years, school lunches have become a very large issue in our country. Not only are they disgusting, they are unhealthy and should not be served to anybody let alone kids. In the video, “What’s wrong with school lunches,” led by Ann Cooper, she held several very strong arguments regarding school lunches. Ann cooper made several important points on what is wrong with school lunches. She mainly spoke about how it is very necessary to expose kids to healthy foods, and that we have to teach them why it is so important to consume healthy foods rather than foods that are processed. She explained that the way that all of these unhealthy/processed foods are advertised, play a very large role on not only children’s lives, but also everybody’s

Also, will change the menus' from nonessential foods with more required or needed foods. More fruits and vegetables will be introduced to students. Overall better food choices in schools will change students to want to eat better foods. Schools will be able to cut out unnecessary junk food. For example: schools could take out pizza and replace it with a more healthier version. Students would be able choose grapes and apples rather than bags of chips or candy bars. Lunch workers would cut out unhealthy side items and replace them with more vegetables or fruits. Schools in general would cut out unhealthy lunches and replace them with more healthy and natural based foods. If schools made the switch to healthier lunches, it would help their students become healthier. It would provide students with better lunch choices. Schools would be able to cut out or change junk foods to more fruits and vegetables. Schools need to make the switch to healthier lunches for the health of

Thirty one million kids nationwide eat school sponsored meals twice a day for a hundred eighty days and on average for twelve years. In this sense school lunches are an important and critical component of childhood nutrition and development. Yet these meals are highly processed and filled with chemicals and preservatives. School lunch rooms are essentially fast food restaurants; they unload shipments of frozen food then heat it up in glorified microwaves and serve it hot and ready. This is the same basic principle of fast food restaurants and people all know how terribly unhealthy fast food is for them. Still America feeds this toxic material to kids every day. This has been a tremendous issue

Today one in five school-aged children (ages 6-19) have obesity and people debate over how to decrease this number and prevent it from being more of an issue in the future. School lunches are often brought up in this discussion, some say that by getting rid of all junk food in schools would help decrease the number of obese students and prevent them in future by providing only healthy food options. On the other hand, they say that it's not that simple, the problems are at home and that getting rid of these items could decrease revenues for school activities from those products. Many people believe that junk food should be banned from schools across the nation.

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

What is this food doing to our children? The childhood obesity epidemic has increased because of the contribution of junk food that is being served in public schools. It has been found that children who eat fatty school foods are more likely to become obese than those who brought lunch from home. Why is this we may ask has a lot to do with the above student that I stated brought their lunch from home daily. You can count the intake of calories that is in your lunchbox but you have no idea what is in the food from you school, half of the time you will not even know what the food is. Also, the specials that are provided for students on special food days increases their calorie intake as well such as; pizza day or wing day. On these days children have shown to intake more food because these are the days that they provide greasy foods that taste swell and the children like them so they will gravitate to them because they do not have the proper knowledge to know what this food can do to your body.

In conclusion, being tired of the same old food should be a thing of the past. Because of all of the available fast food choices the entire world has to offer, shouldn’t you have more choices every day? Not only would the change make students more energetic to learn, it would also save the parent’s time and money, so win-win for

In most cases, the so-called “delicious lunch” does not fill them up, so students result to purchasing junk foods from the vending machines. These vending machines are stock with potato chips, sodas, and cookies sold for a dollar and the students rush to make enormous lines to fulfill their hunger and appetite. In all honesty, snacks does not provide us with an adequate amount of nutrition. The question I have been longing to collect answers on is why school lunch has not improve to help the well-being of the students? This question deserves to be investigated very carefully because the precious innocents little ones lives are on the line. I feel it is inevitable to allow the conversation on the school lunch to continue to go on without any solutions being thought of yet. I’m very hopeful in this research being able to unravel clues and needed understanding of this

Studies have shown that people need to snack throughout the day to maintain optima health. This is especially true for children. To begin with, having food and beverage easily accessible helps students maintain their energy and focus. Hungry and thirsty students will not learn. If vending machine are stuck with healthy food item, they can affectively help students maximize their education experience. An addition, schools often serve food at time that are difficult for students to eat. A well-stocked maintain vending can be an accommodating solution for this problem.

The age old saying, “You are what you eat” still rings true today. Fresh fruit and vegetables have been replaced by french-fries and hamburgers. Children today do not know how to eat healthy. We, as a nation, spend hours and hours bombarding children with fast food commercials, sugary cereal commercials and cavity causing drink commercials. We than spend a fraction of that time telling kids these things are healthy only in moderation.

Joan Lunden a tv personality states, “We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines’. Students are eating food items without realizing that has a negative effect on their bodies. vending machines are only putting fat to people's system. Most schools during breakfast they serve pizza or sweet bread instead of a granola bar or low-fat yogurt. The government is thinking the food they serve is beneficial for their students. Schools should start serving healthy meals to kids and realize that they are doing wrong. Obesity is an epidemic and makes young people suffer even bullied.