Unhealthy Food Habits

Obesity can often be the consequence of living in a household that instill unhealthy eating habits. Schools can be a positive influence on teens early in life so that obese teens can lead into their adult lives with healthier habits. With these healthier habits, they may likely have more energy to become positive influences in others lives to be healthy and be able to do more. If schools can make such an impact on students’ lives, they should try, even if they needed to sacrifice extra money or instructional time. In 2007, there was a study that only one fifth of high school students had eaten fruits and vegetables at least five times a day in a week (Wexler, 2010). While it is unreasonable to force someone to eat these foods, if they are regularly offered as part of school lunches, students may eat them if they have finished the rest of their lunch and are hungry. Schools should be encouraged to even add fruits and vegetables to vending machines for healthier options.

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

School cafeterias have been notoriously known for having unhealthy, unappealing food. Students at schools are being forced to eat these foods, when parents cannot provide regular lunches for their children. These lunches usually include the following: pizza, soda, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, and others, all filled with artificial ingredients and preservatives. To address this problem, there should be a switch between the foods and drinks being served, and I have just the ideas that will be delicious and healthy. Authors Alice Waters, Katrina Heron, and Mark Bittman all agree that some initiative needs to be taken to fix this unhealthy food problem, and so do I. Together, the student body and parents will address the school board with healthier food options that are better tasting and better for the body.

Therefore, modifying the Healthy Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010 is a great start to meeting the needs of a more diverse student body. In deciding to keep the program the same, active and athletic students leave school undernourished everyday. Consequently, students not receiving their nutritional needs could also quench their hunger with unhealthy alternatives. For example, they could choose to visit a gas station before a sport practice to get through the practice. A healthy lunch program is ineffective if, in effect, it causes students to consume more unhealthy alternatives. Overall, this either causes undernourished students or students indulging in unhealthy alternatives. Neither of these is a good outcome for the students health, it would more effective to offer a second serving of healthier food during

The goals,is to improve school food, teach nutrition, support sustainable food systems, and create an education program focused on understanding the relationships between food, culture, health, and the environment.By the time today’s kindergartner finishes high school, she may have eaten well over 4,000 school meals—4,000 opportunities to strengthen her body and mind, introduce food pleasures that will make her a lifelong healthy eater, and deepen her engagement with the natural world. The more than 5.5 billion lunches and nearly 2 billion breakfasts served yearly in school programs, along with complementary education programs, can have a profound effect on issues of public health, academic performance, economics, justice, national security,

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

School lunches are a major problem in our school. The wheat products, the canned fruit, and the processed meats we are served aren’t helping students stay healthy as much as we think they are. Speaking on behalf of a majority of the student body, we often go all day without eating because our lunches are absolutely horrible. My solution to this problem is we start serving more fresh produce, non-wheat products and less processed food.

"Every public school child in America deserves a healthful and delicious lunch that is prepared with fresh ingredients."(Alice Waters, Katrina Heron,10). Alice Walters, and Katrina Heron wrote that very true statement in an article that emphasized the fact that food should be improved in Schools. Everyone in class agrees with their point and believe that school food should be improved. By improved we mean that it should be healthier, than the unhealthy food we get served every single day and the lunch program should emphasize on healthy eating. Many and I have came to the conclusion that the food that Liberty students get served everyday is really bad in the sense that it is very unhealthy and that their should be an improvement in the

Wake up. Eat. Go to school. Eat. Go home. Eat. Do homework. Eat. Go to bed. This is an average person’s day while they are between the ages of 5 and 22 (the school aged children through average college graduation). The daily intake of food for a person is so important, as it sustains their every move throughout the day. This is especially true for school aged children, as the habits that they will learn and develop now will follow them for the rest of their lives. It is just as important for educators to be aware of what their students are eating and how to provide a healthy intervention when a child’s health is in question.

For many years, students who continue their education have been slowly gaining and losing weight. Some causes are from stress and other reasonings. Student rates of obesity, diabetes, and anorexic behavior are rapidly growing, making it one of the most significant epidemics in our children and young adults generation today. However, schools should not be blamed for not providing proper nutrition in schools. There are various reasons that affect a student 's health life in such as cultural changes, homesickness gaining weight by the food choices being supplied by the school, exercise and not being involved. The society believes the cafeterias and or school’s causes the students to gain or lose weight unhealthily; although it is not the

The food industry has been making a profit off of unhealthy foods for a while through the help of false advertisements, and addictive additives. Fats and sugars are used, causing foods to be addictived making people fancy to buy more. The food industry also has been using false advertising and deals to compel the food to seem additionally appealing along with them being so cheap already. The key issues in the food industry are that they sell unhealthy foods with the help of false advertisements, and marketing techniques for high profits, but while doing so cause health problems.

According to Options For Youth, research has shown that students perform much better in the classroom environment when they’re well nourished and eating healthy snacks that contain few calories, and lots of fiber. The reality, however, is that students need to eat healthy foods in order to achieve the academic success they’re striving for. In fact, eating a healthy diet gives your brain and your body the minerals needed to stay fit. But eating and maintaining a healthy diet can prove to be a lot more difficult for students than anyone else – especially when you’re a busy student running from one class to the next.

People today are threatened by all sorts of unhealthy food. Obese people today blame many things including the quality of food they eat as an excuse for their unhealthy lifestyle. While much of today’s food choices are extremely unhealthy, people are not forced to eat anything. People have the right to choose what they want to eat. Many people suffering from obesity are seeking excuses and acceptance for their size, when they should be seeking support and guidance on how to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. They need to learn how to evaluate their own food choices and they need to learn about actions they can take to live a healthier lifestyle.

To most of us, hearing that obesity is becoming a worldwide epidemic is nothing new and it isn’t. When you first think of, why this happens, what’s the first thing you think of, for me it’s all of the fast food restaurants. We can look around us and see a Fast Food Restaurant on every corner, readily waiting to take our orders. But we don’t really think of our canteen, do we? A canteens purpose is to provide healthy and appealing food for students to aid their learning and development. But can we say that about ours? In this speech, I will discuss our canteen and its food and how it links to adolescent obesity and that by implementing healthier options it can help our youth have a happier, healthier future.

The access to vending machines and their popularity in schools have been increased over the past years; and the installments of them have contributed to high calorie intake among the youths. Food environment has been studied as an important contributor to the dietary decisions people make every day. Decisions which ultimately impact both short and long term health outcomes in people’s lives. The built environment, school, and work impacts the nutrition environment, which includes the external cues that influence one’s food choices and consumption. One path for modifying eating behaviors is to change the nutrition environment in order to create an environment that is more conducive to healthy eating.