Benefits Of Healthy Lunches

Healthy Lunches Can Lead to Better Schooling
After spending almost half of a day in endless testing, lectures, and assignments, we wander into the cafeteria; starving and hoping for something filling and nutritious to keep us going through the rest of the day. You get a tray and have to hold back a gag at the site of the slop they ladle onto the tray. The nauseating smell of boiled, rubbery hot dogs; the wretched grittiness of “whole grain” tortillas; all have you regretting the decision not to pack a lunch. Have you ever experienced a watery, tasteless, grainy chicken pot pie? Well I have, and many days I went hungry after lunch because of what was served. For countless reasons, students should be given the option of eating healthy, appetizing food.
Lunch at school is an important part of being able to function through the day. Eating a well rounded diet with three square meals and two nutritious

Many schools in the nation report that they offer nutritionally rich foods. But according to an online analysis of school age children and obesity, 15 percent of 13-15 year old girls are obese and 14 percent of 13-15 year old boys are obese. While not entirely the blame of school lunches they can be held partially accountable. According to Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Healthy School Lunch Campaign "school foods are too rich in saturated fat and cholesterol." School cafeterias make the claim that students are better fed when getting a school lunch than bringing their own because they claim to offer healthier choices. According to an article that was written in the Times about school lunches, a chocolate chip cookie that was sold at one school had 300 calories. That’s almost an eighth of the calories most people are supposed to have a day. The nachos in the article offered at a school had 408 calories and that’s more than a third of the daily fat