Overview
The National School Lunch Program, or known as NSLP, has been providing kids with food in their attended school since it was established in 1946 when President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch act. Before that, there were other smaller programs intended to do the same thing, but not many works well.
School children groups are important parts in society, so it would make sense to feed them the best lunch as possible. However, people realized that they are probably feeding their children “junk” because childhood obesity became one of the most significant public health issues. In U.S, the overweight prevalence increased from 15.4 to 25.6 during the study periods from 1971 to 1974 and 1988 to 1994 (Wang, Monteiro and Popkin,
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If kids are not introduced knowledge about whole grains, fruits and vegetables by now, it would be harder for them to try these new stuff when they grow up. If we give up to introduce kids to healthier foods, we would probably leave our new generation at a significant disadvantage.
Back to student complaints about not getting enough food, many schools have already provided snacks from vending machines to help curb hunger. There are worries about some potential contributions to the rise in the rate of childhood obesity from snacks, but these concerns only occur when snacks in vending are not regulated. President Obama’s Smart Snack in School Rules added new nutrition standards to foods sold on campus, and this act would minimize concerns by limiting fat and calories.
Furthermore, regulating by U.S. government would bring more funding for families that are low-income. When their kids study in school, they can not only stay full but take the same well nutritional food as normal families have with a reduced price or free, this could be a huge benefit to our
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It’s hard to say that fully intervene by the government would be helpful, but certain controlling is necessary. There are still some problems this program needs to face, like food safety concerns, and the waste of food. If food and nutritional education can be done in generations, the awareness of the importance of food safety and nutrition can be improved, and all the concerns would be solved.
In addition, the student may complain about their lack of choices of food. However, the government did the most helpful nutritional food match for them, they only issue is that they don’t like heathier food. This doesn’t mean that government have to give up, the key is to keep introducing new and health food to students little by little, make students to aware healthy food when they are in childhood.
Government’s implementation of the new policy for NSLP and Smart Snack in School Rules makes more and more school take part in the program and meet and updated standards. This would also be a good chance to give most of the school students a heathier lunch menu, curb obesity from school in an efficient
Introduction: The children obesity epidemic is still present today, and the growing love of fast food is fueling it. Students are not being taught good nutrition and are paying the price. With fast food restaurants appearing in more areas, one place they have remained is on high schools campuses. Having fast food on campuses has its benefits such as fast and cheap food and it can be easily accessed. The negative aspect of having fast food on high school campuses is how much is being consumed. The students are not getting the right nutrition to fuel their minds for the school work. Students need to have proper nutrition to carry on throughout the day and preform to the best of their ability.
The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act has taken over schools nationwide and needs to be stopped. There are more negatives than positives that go along with this act and there needs to be an end. Schools should not have to waste money on expensive food to have it not be eaten. Students should be able to enjoy what the lunchroom has to offer. The students do not buy these lunches so the food goes to waste. In 2012, when the Healthy Hunger Free-Kids Act was made students stopped eating their school lunches and schools began to lose great amounts money. It 's beneficial to encourage healthy eating habits with schools but this act needs to be reformed.
Schools have policies on what food is being served in their cafeterias or in the vending machines. Cafeterias sell greasy foods such as curly fries, poutine, pizza and multitudes of cookies and other baked goods. The cafeteria food that is purchased is significantly cheaper in large frozen, junk food quantities which will keep the prices of foods down for the school. Nutritious food has not always been thought out for the children who are purchasing the food from the cafeteria or vending machine. The boards tend to care more about the costs saved on junk foods rather then the rise of obesity within the child generation. Cafeterias with greasy foods and vending machines that are stocked with chips, chocolate and pop continuously allow childhood obesity to be on the rise. Schools have vending machines that sell junk food which contribute to the evolution of childhood
Government date shows that in the past thirty years, rate of being overweight in six to eleven year olds is up 19% and 6% in age 12 to 19. Without support, school lunches remain high in fat. (Finkelstien) According to the CDCP, obesity is double what it was in children and triple in adolescents since 1980. Many reforms were attempted to help this problem, but many inadvertently caused more problems. (Finkelstien) A 730 calorie lunch should have no more than 24 grams of fat and no more than 8 grams of it saturated yet the average USDA lunch has 31 grams of fat and 14 rams of it is saturated. (Yeoman) These very high levels of fat are why obesity is becoming worse in children. It can be concluded that school food is still extremely high in fat and this can be directly linked to the high rates of obesity in young children and
“More than a third of the county's children are overweight or obese.”(Gustin, 1). As shocking as this is, it's true. One of the big reasons that children and teens are overweight is because of the foods that they eat. They are fed these fattening and unhealthy foods by the school system. Their futures can be changed if we change our choices. Having more nutritious lunches can have a positive impact on the health of American teens.
The School Lunch Program was first initiated under Section 32 of the Agriculture Act passed in 1935. The law outlined which programs would receive donations of surplus USDA foods, which include but is not limited to: schools, non-profit summer camps, and needy families. It was not until after World War II that the National School Lunch Program was fully developed under the National School Lunch Act of 1946. Signed into power by President Truman, the act provided federal cash support for the nation’s school lunches, as during WWII, the USDA was only able to ship a limited amount of food to schools due to food shortages and transportation issues.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, “Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years,” meaning that America’s children need to start eating healthier, including healthier school lunches. The National School Lunch Act is a fairly recent addition to American society. For, as the world waged war a second time, the United States began to worry about the strength and health of the country’s soldiers. However, in the beginning, selling excess agricultural goods was more important than building a healthy, well-balanced meal for students. Unfortunately, many children coming from poorer families could not afford well-balanced school lunches, so in order to compensate, the School Lunch Program changed its focus to help these students. This program, however, decreased schools’ lunch budgets, and schools had a hard time keeping up with the amount of free meals they had to provide, so they came up with some extra ways to increase revenue. However, in a small town in Massachusetts, one chef makes a difference in the health of the school lunch students eat each day, and proves that hiring a trained chef to cook real, healthy meals can increase profit. Unfortunately, that is not the case in most schools across the nation. The quality of health of the food being served in school lunches is extremely poor and was allowed to decline even more with a new set of rule changes. However, there are some improvements currently being made to increase the quality of health of the food being served to students, including teaching them all about food and its nutritional information, both good and bad. In order for students to eat healthier lunches at school, the USDA needs to implement healthier ...
Also, since over 12 million children are in child care centers every day, there are not any regulations against feeding children unhealthy food during the day (Salisbury). This impacts the growth and development of children at a young age. If the food is not regulated, than it is very possible that they could be prone to involuntary obesity. According to the Journal of School Health, students tend to gravitate toward less healthy foods and bigger portion sizes. Unfortunately, this leads us to another cause of obesity, which the increased portion of the foods and drinks that are in vending machines. This means that they are eating a lot of extra
Currently, government required every import and export food products to have a nutrition label on to let the customer know the nutrition fact of products. This gives us the ideas to know what the sources are contained in the products. However, the U.S still has the highest percentage of obesity and diseases that relate to nutritional. I have read one of the articles Why Schools Need a Mandatory Nutrition Curriculum by Puccini and Romero and this article explained us how being obese effect today’s lives, especially the children and youth. According to this research, they predicted that “youth today will be the generation of American to love shorter live than their parents as a direct result of the food they eat.” I did the research on this topic at website like Chalkbeat New York and see how providing MNE in school would prevent from obesity and type II diabetes and so on. For example, MNE program taught the student how to read the nutrition facts, how to choose and prepare healthier meals at home or restaurant. Moreover, they showed the video of Food, Inc. to give the students the idea of where the fast food restaurants got their meats from. The percentage of students likely to become vegetarian are increased after seeing that video and gained the knowledge from MNE. In addition, there are many other resources on the website that I can look up to find the advantages and disadvantages of
To begin, school meals do not set a solid foundation for children regarding the diet habits they will have for the rest of their lives. For example, they are teaching kids that greasy pizza and corn dogs are a part of a healthy, nutritious diet. One student says, “We think school lunches are healthy because they have all these posters in the cafeteria telling us to eat healthy food and be active; we think the school is doing their part by serving us healthy food too, but they are not” (Jimenez). Not only do children think that this cheap food is a good choice, but schools also think they are benefiting because of how much money they conserve.
Moreover, the controversy over cafeteria food is whether or not it is healthy for all students from elementary schools to colleges. Numerous factors lead to unhealthy eating in schools and on campuses. Sometimes options with better nutrition are offered, but when there are, they tend to be less appealing than the unhealthy foods which turns to obesity. Many schools are undergoing budget cuts and changes, and healthy food tends to take a back burner when deciding where the limited amounts of money should go (Gupta). Unfortunately, when schools do have healthy ingredients, the food is usually prep...
With the implementation of the “Healthy Kids Hunger-Free Act” schools are not serving as many lunches and participation is decreasing. According to the Government Accountability Office (GOA), “Nationwide, student participation declined by 1.2 million students(or 3.7 percent) from school year 2010-2011 through school year 2012-2013, after having increased steadily for many years”(sec. 1). The school lunches became more distasteful and bland; the combinations of foods did not make sense, and the portion sizes decreased significantly. In order to support the cafeteria
served at schools (Ralston, k.r (2008) the national lunch program). The main issue is if
The United States Department of Agriculture, (USDA), prioritizes school breakfast (Coles, 2000). The School Breakfast Program was just introduced in 1966. When introduced, the program was a temporary measure through the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The basis for the implementation of this program was to accommodate children in areas where they had long bus rides to school and in areas where many mothers were in the work force.
Imagine a lunch room serving pizza for breakfast, processed nuggets for lunch, and vending machines serving calorie packed pop, crunchy cookies, and gooey brownies. Although this may sound delicious, these foods are extraordinarily unhealthy. Eating high-calorie, low-nutrient dense foods leads to obesity, disease, and addiction to sugar. The people affected by this issue are children who go to schools that serve empty calorie lunches and breakfasts. Many health professionals are for banning junk food from schools, while others are begging to keep the tasty treats. Junk food is anything that has high amounts of fat or sugar without supplying vitamins, and is usually low in protein. Healthy food is low in calories, with low amounts