School lunch started out as a program to help students focus on studies by getting the
best nutrition from a meal at school. According to Julie Lautenschlager, in the book Food Fight,
during World War Two, students were having issues with bad nutrition (61). There was a need
to improve the overall health and ability of a student to concentrate during class. Lunches
started out costing one penny. By the time I got to grade school, lunch was $2.00, and my
mother laid out that money for me to take each day. By the time I got to high school that two
dollars went towards more ice cream sandwiches from the snack stand than actual school
lunch. Given the choice, I chose sugar, as do millions of other students. School lunches are
contributing to the epidemic this country is facing of childhood obesity and negatively
impacting the health of our youth. School lunches are corrupting youth by robbing their bodies
of the nutritional value they need to succeed in their studies.
There are many side effects of a poor diet. Processed foods are part of that equation.
According to the article, “10 Things the Processed Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know,
and Body Ecology’s 2 Powerful Tools to Help You Fight Back!” low Iron and food additives have
been linked to children with ADHD. This article also speaks to how the ingredients in processed
foods cause the human body to become addicted much like a substance abuse addiction. Diets
that include processed meats have also been linked to pancreatic, colon, stomach and breast
cancer. A diet that is not rich in the nutrients the body needs to function, causes problems in
adults and even worse problems in children who are still developing and learning in school...
... middle of paper ...
...ic ASAP. Web. 30 Jan.
2012.
Gaines, Danielle. “Teens Have Easy Access to Unhealthy Foods.” Mercedsunstart.com. Sun Star
18 June 2010: n. page. Web. 17 Feb 2012
Loftshult, Diane. “FDA okays cloned foods.” Cengage. Idea Fitness Journal. April 2008 v5 i4
p58(1). Web. 5 March 2012
Massart, F., and G. Saggese. "Oestrogenic Mycotoxin Exposures And Precocious Pubertal
Development." International Journal Of Andrology 33.2 (2010): 369-376. Academic
Search Elite. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Piehl, Norah. Should Junk Food Be Sold in Schools? Detroit. 2011. Print.
‘The Effects Processed Foods and Additives Have on our Brain: Toxic Brain.”
MountianRoseHerbs.com. Healthy Holistic Living: n. date. Web. 5 March 2012
Yeoman, Barry. "Is The U.S. Government Making Children Fat?." Nieman Reports 57.1 (2003):
30. Academic Search Elite. Web. 17 Feb 2012
Schools are meant to give our children a healthy and nurturing environment, and yet so much of the lunches in schools are fattening; does this stop schools from achieving the aforementioned goal? Childhood obesity in the United Sates continues to be a growing problem despite so any new programs to help combat it, and new research is showing how schools may be playing a large role in childhood obesity. School lunches are showing to be the problem, they encourage poor nutrition in our nation’s students, and simple reform is proving to not be enough to stop the rise in obesity rates.
...nt, Katniss decides not to play by the rules anymore and she splits a handful of poison berries with Peeta. She decides that she is not going to let the “Gods” manipulate the game anymore. Right before they eat the berries the leader’s voice comes overhead and tells them that they have both one. The reason he decides to do this is because the crowd would be incredibly disappointed if the “show” ended this way. This is Katniss’ true show of courage, to defy the leaders/Gods and make her own ending. It can be said that this was Katniss’ destiny or fate: that she was meant to win the Hunger Games.
American has taken many steps to improve their food production, but why is most of its people sick with related food disease. About seventy percent of Americans diet is processed food; this includes canned good, fast food or any food that cannot be made with simple ingredients ...
Wilde, Parke, and Mary Kennedy. "The Economics Of A Healthy School Meal." Choices: The Magazine Of Food, Farm & Resource Issues 24.3 (2009): 25-29. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Feb. 2014.
Experiencing the death of a loved one is never easy, especially when the cause is something self-inflicted, such as cigarettes. Imagine if that loved one was your parent or even worse, your own child. Now, imagine watching the demise and physical incapacities that transpire while you see them deteriorate right in front of you. Feel the anger that would coarse through your veins if you were to see an add that glamorized such deadly instruments, particularly once you realize that the areas being marketed are lower class. Cigarettes are legal killers that cripple many individuals and families alike. They are a highly addictive substance that benefit no one. I am against cigarettes in every capacity as I have dealt with the effects of it on a personal level. Cigarettes leave a distaste in the mouth literally and figuratively. I am also a firm believer that
Williamson, D. A., Han, H., Johnson, W. D., Martin, C. K., & Newton, R. L. (2013). Modification of the school cafeteria environment can impact childhood nutrition. Results from the Wise Mind and LA Health studies. Appetite, 61, 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2012.11.002
In LAUSD, students throw away over $100,000 in food every day. That adds up to a loss of around $18,000,000 annually, which is 10% of their food, wasted (Watanabe). Our nation's schools are losing billions of dollars annually, and our weak economy is paying for school meals that many students refuse to eat, despite the efforts of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.The government is making attempts to reduce childhood obesity by regulating school meals, PE, and health education, but it has all been to no avail. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act is actually harming both the kids and their schools because the meals are more expensive, the yen up unappetizing, and many kids are left with empty bellies.
To conclude, unhealthy foods in the cafeteria and the vending machines are the worst examples for the kids to maintain the healthy eating habits. Us Parents have to step in to make changes for our kids because in doing so would determine what kind of foods our kids are consuming. We do know for facts they are not getting the proper nutrients while in school, although they do spend in average of eight to 12 hours in schools. We, the parents, can start to make a difference, by attending the school meetings and being active in our kids functions in schools.
Our society nowadays is rather different from the society that existed previously. Throughout the history, the habits of people have dramatically changed as well as the lifestyle did. The development of new technologies that we are able to witness in our days is changing how we live and how we perceive the environment around us. With regards to this, it would not be a surprise that our eating habits and how we view the food have also changed with the flow of the time and that the junk food is gaining larger popularity. With the growth of the junk food consumption, people become concerned with the quality of the food they eat and with the effects that it has on their health. Speaking about the influence of junk food on the health, many researchers
Let us discover together, what processed foods are and why they can’t measure up to the
Processed foods make up 70% of the U.S. diet. Over the past century, a gradual revolution continues to increase the average consumer’s intake of highly processed food products. Everyday, new food-like substances are replacing real food on supermarket shelves and companies continue to fuel this epidemic by mislabeling products. Consumers must learn how to avoid processed food substances, which have been associated to numerous health concerns, and select healthier alternatives.
The first thought that crosses the mind of an able-bodied individual upon seeing a disabled person will undoubtedly pertain to their disability. This is for the most part because that is the first thing that a person would notice, as it could be perceived from a distance. However, due to the way that disability is portrayed in the media, and in our minds, your analysis of a disabled person rarely proceeds beyond that initial observation. This is the underlying problem behind why disabled people feel so under appreciated and discriminated against. Society compartmentalizes, and in doing so places the disabled in an entirely different category than fully able human beings. This is the underlying theme in the essays “Disability” by Nancy Mairs, “Why the Able-Bodied Just Don’t Get it” by Andre Dubus, and “Should I Have Been Killed at Birth?” by Harriet Johnson.
Have a realistic interview, and follow all the steps that would have followed in a regular interview. In case of offers from the employer, the candidate should follow up right the way. Finally, interviewers should be asked to evaluate the meeting and give some suggestions. Preparing for an interview is as much important as showing up. Tips to prepare for an interview can be used for any kind of job interview, and must be followed like the interview is real. Stress get into people every time an interview is behind the corner, and a great way to deal with it is to learn as mush as possible about the interview. The applicant should learn bout the job description, experience, and qualification for the position applied. The candidate should prepare some questions in case the employer asks, and practice them. The interview must be approached with positive attitude, which it could improve your performance. Right before the interview, the applicant could talk to a friend or a close person who could boost hi or her motivation. Also, the applicant should look professional, and use a positive body language. Thus, the
People with disabilities are still people, they are people with hearts and they are actual physical beings; people with disabilities do their best to live every day to their fullest, yet that is still not enough for others. I feel like as a whole, humans are generally uncomfortable with people who have disabilities. Let’s think of it this way, people live their life every day in their normal lives and then they come across a person with a disability and suddenly their life is interrupted, like it is such a barrier in their flow of life to come across someone different from themselves.
Most people find that going to a job interview can be one of the most stressful events in a person’s life. For some, a job interview is vital to one’s future, therefore the outcome of the interview can be of great importance to that person’s life. However, with a few helpful steps, a job interview can be quite simple. In order to succeed at a job interview you need to: conduct research on the employer and the job opportunity, review common interview questions and prepare responses, dress for success, arrive on time for the interview and be prepared, ask questions, make good first impressions, and thank your interviewer(s) in person and by email or postal mail.