...your school already have a long lunch? Well, schools should have longer lunches because it helps kids relax, it is a lot more healthier, and kids don't waste as much food. There are many advantages for having a longer lunch including students have more time to relax and a break from all the stress that school gives. If you have more time to eat then you have more time to talk, which helps kids relax. Attention spans are dropping among students, and short lunch periods may be part of the problem (Food Service Solutions). Wouldn't you be ready to learn after a 40 minute lunch break? The second reason why there should be longer lunches is that it is way healthier. For example if the lunch is longer then the lunch ladies have more time to prepare the food. Which means healthy lunch, more greens and more fruits. Also rushing to eat doesn't give students time to recognize things like signs of fullness or the way certain foods make them feel (¨Food Service Solutions¨). And the Journal of Academy of Nutrition conducted an experiment on an elementary school. They found out that students eat 13% less of their main...
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...Gunderson, Linnekin, Olson and Fischer all have different ideas on how bad this new policy and how it is affecting these kids at school. Each one of these authors describes how these new implications are either wasteful or unappealing to these students. There are a lot of the public schools that are having trouble meeting these new specific requirements for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) but it is getting more difficult to provide these meals. These new items either cost too much or they are very unappealing to the individuals who have to consume them. This is not a good thing to have these children starving from offering unappealing food items that they won’t consume. There will be many factors that play into childhood obesity and how the schools lunches will be the first...
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...Obesity Epidemic Since the 1980’s obesity in America has been on a steady increase and many question the cause. The question among professionals has been what’s the cause, the source of obesity in American? While there has been much discussion about the effects of obesity, the causes of obesity remains the highlight of the issue. To truly understand obesity we must first discuss the causes, rather its lack of job, changing social habits, or the easy access of fast foods. With the introduction of robotics and shipping jobs overseas we have seen a dramatic decline in hard working physical jobs in America. Such a decline has led to more, less physical desk jobs and long unemployment, aid in leading to obesity. No more are the 8 – 12 hr working days when you needed that lunch to get you by, and in a lot of cases healthy eating choices weren’t close by to consider. The days when our parent’s used to take a lunch pail into work with a sandwich, a fruit, and crackers with peanut butter have been replaced by less healthier choices such as packaged meals, or a nearby fast food chains which seem to be on every corner now and days. Just with the lack of physical jobs you can start to see why we have an obesity problem but this is just one example. Since the introduction of gaming consoles in the 1980’s children have been getting less physical activity outdoors. Prior to gaming children used to play outside doing such things as going to parks, fishing, playing tag, and various...
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...School lunches need to change for the better because everyday kids have complaints about them and even more kids around the world. So it's not just Zimmerman. The school lunches used to be decent until in 2012 when Barack Obama made a law called “The Healthy Hunger free kids act” which prevented unhealthy foods at schools. This helped reduce kids obesity, but the lunches are still gross and bad tasting. Even though they did get more fruits and vegetables the fruits are not fresh at all. For example the apples are hard as rocks and the vegetables taste like they’ve been out for weeks. I think it would be better if the school ordered subway or dominos once a week at least or a better provider because ours is very gross. Not only Zimmerman...
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...Think of what students are learning at school and how it affects their lives. School lunches can in turn, affect what students eat outside of school in a potentially hazardous way. This in turn can be a major hazard to many students in many ways. My school can improve its school lunch system in three ways. The three ways are: 1. to serve healthier and more nutritious meals, 2. to have more sanitary practices with the cafeteria workers, and 3. improve the seating arrangements in the cafeteria. My school cafeteria lunches serve meals that can potentially be dangerous to one’s health. On a typical day, we may have a Mexican pizza and corn. These are two carbohydrates and are not two good food choices or a balanced meal. My school offer salad and a fruit if you want to buy it; but as you know most middle schooler's will not choose to buy either. Fruit, salad, and a vegetable should not be an open option but part of balanced school lunch. Again, school cafeterias should provide healthier lunches for students. Schools need options for students that can in the end benefit their health. Providing healthier school lunches can decrease the obesity rate around not only at my school but around the world. Statistics say, “Healthy lunches would help decrease the rate of childhood obesity and health effects” (“School Lunches”). Secondly, my cafeteria should serve more sanitary foods. I say this because sometimes we find small human hairs in our food during lunch time. My friends and I find...
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...Most or everybody has ate a school lunch in one part of your life’s. But do you really know how healthy lunch food is? Why it’s healthy. How it’s healthy. Or even proof that it’s healthy. Well, Based on my research. I know that School lunches do not meet the federal standards. First. If I told you that fast foods healthier, would you believe me? I would know that you wouldn’t believe it. Don’t worry, I would not believe it myself. But would you be surprised if I had the accurate proof? Because I surprisingly do. Now. Normal fast foods like McDonalds or Burger king. Or even Kentucky Fried chicken (KFC) Inspect their food very well. So Fast foods are usually cleaner than lunch foods. In fact, most schools failed to meet the requirements for...
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...Calvinia Hall English Composition 2 December 18, 2014 Mr. Kessler I am siding with Ms. Lopez support of legislation to increase school funds for school lunches to the underprivileged. Although Will Smith supports legislation to repair crumbling highways which is also very important because we need good highways for tax payers to get too work in order for legislation to have the money to begin with and because I lived in Cleveland my whole life and so know a lot about bad streets and highway and how costly it is to get a bent rim fixed on your car because of problems with crumbling streets and high ways I can see why fixing them would be good side but I believe that the taking the 100 million to increase funds for school lunches to underprivileged is a much better idea. Coming from an underprivileged family I like many other children from my community received free/ discount lunch and when it wasn’t supplied by the school my parents had to use whatever food we had in the house for mem to take to lunch. A lot of time the meals weren’t the healthiest because like many other families we could not afford the health choices this such as fresh fruit and vegetables weren’t always available for me to take to school. If the 100 million were sent to increase funds for school lunches to the underprivileged all students would have the same opportunity to eat the same meal and have the same healthy...
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... Unhealthy Lunch at school Lunch is an important meal of the day for kids and it is eaten at school. For kids lunch boosts the metabolism and gives energy for the rest of the day. But now unhealthy lunch is probably one of the biggest problems at every school. As kids tend to grow faster than adults it is important that they receive all the nutrition they require to grow into a healthy adult. We’re seeing sick kids get sicker and sicker this is due to deleterious food provided in lunch at schools in the ted talk Ann Cooper gives brief description of how USDA regulation allows school lunch providers to feed poison to our kids by feeding those processed foods that come frozen or in plastic bags. I concur with Ann cooper's argument and I think that we as a whole nation should take necessary steps to prevent our children from getting sick by feeding our kids healthy and fresh food which serves them nutrition and become healthy citizen down the road. In the Ted talk Anna Cooper mentions about “We now live in a country that has more prisoners than farmers.” I completely agree with the Anna’s statement that United States has more processed food than organic fresh food in local markets. We feed more frozen food than fresh, framed organic food to our children. Processed foods made with Trans fats, saturated fats, and large amounts of sodium and sugar aren't good for children. They're low in vitamins and minerals and eating too much of them are bad for children who need nutrition...
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...“Research Topics with Explanation”: Week 2 Assignment 1 Submission Professor English 215 January 17, 2014 Research Topics with Explanation Should changes be made to the regulations for foods that are served in public schools? I choose this as topic one because it made me recall that First Lady Michelle Obama issued a challenge to Get Fit and to put healthier food choices on school menus. The topic makes me curious to know if her challenge was met. The school board, School Nutrition program and parents of school age children are my target audience. A preliminary thesis statement is: Changes must be made to regulate foods that are served in public schools to closer match the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Dietary Food Pyramid Guide. Two credible sources that I would expect to use are the articles “School Food Environments and Policies in US Public Schools” and “Schools change menus for healthier lunches”. Should minors who commit violent crimes be tried as adults? I choose this as topic two because lately crimes of this nature are all over the media. I have never thought about this question. Therefore, I have no idea what position I would decide to defend. I am aware that one should have a strong opinion, thereby being able to make a strong agreement when writing a persuasive paper. However, although perhaps I currently lean towards not agreeing, I am intrigued to learn what my final position would be after conducting thorough research. The general...
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...regulate the content of school lunches? Well, some students think the government should, other students not so much. Many people dislike the thought of having a healthy school lunch, while others think having a healthy lunch will reduce obesity in America. Here’s what America had to say about this! Some people think the government should regulate school lunch, because it will be healthy and it will reduce obesity. Regulating school lunch was first challenged by Michelle Obama. .The first lady wanted to improve the nutritional content of food. Some citizens love the idea. Some people think if they regulate school lunch it will get rid of they fatty foods “The big difference is that the calories are from healthier foods....
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...Consumer Protection Laws and Regulations Unhealthy Lunches Over the past few decades, the American population has developed a reputation of being lazy and obese. It’s an ignorant generalization and stereotype, but is it possible that this has some truth? It may come down to an issue of the children diet and exercise routine. School lunches are usually unhealthy because the prices need to be affordable for families. This topic is very popular in the media more frequently and raising awareness could be a key to recovery. Also, the government should step up and play a bigger part in providing healthier options for schools, especially in low income areas. Another major problem is the example that some parents set. As a parent, one brings another life into the world and it’s their responsibility to guide the child to be successful and live a healthy life. If the parent shows poor eating habits and a lack of self discipline, the child will usually take on the same lifestyle. This will leave the children to a higher risk of disease and mental issues such as low self-esteem or a poor body image. The famous fast food restaurant McDonalds have been a lawsuit target for obese citizens for their health issues and weight problems. With this in mind, it’s safe to say that in 2013, anybody can present a good case in most disputes. Georg and Mary could hire a good lawyer to enforce a legal angle. George and Mary could argue that...
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...benefit everyone. Upon benefiting everyone it will cause other states to see the foods being eaten are actually healthy and can decrease obesity. Furthermore that being said this can also b. Furthermore with that being stated, that can also become a local law where schools in Virginia must provide a more healthier standard in their meals. Upon this action that I believe will happen people will see from other state that from this food...
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...of the school is really needed The Public Needs to Know By you really do not need “by” Seanne Benjamin-Long The professors name should be in line with her name Professor Martha Johnson The course and date should be on different lines English 115 May 12, 2013 The beginning of your essay should start on a new page The implementation of school meals programs for improvement in nutrition and health of children is very is imperative. I’m not sure if this is part of the first paragraph or not but if it is there should not be a space in between. The school breakfast...
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...Am I Ready for High School I am always wondering if i'm ready to go into high school or not. Sometimes i think i am ready for something when i'm really not. No telling what high school has to offer because it can be really good or bad. I'm not ready because i don't have any supplies, which obviously people need, or the teachers might be more strict on students and maybe a little more meaner. Also i might need different friends to hang out with because of the different timed lunches. I'm going to start out with my supplies to go to the 8th grade. I don't have anything so i will have to go buy things like pencils, paper, folders, and maybe even pens. Seventh and eighth grade was fun and all but i have to move on in life so i can graduate...
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...At Blackfoot High School, there is a banner system to provide incentives to keep a clean campus as well as reward students for positive behavior. All students earn an hour lunch if they are on green banner—the campus stays clean and there are no major disciplinary violations—for five days (BHS Student Handbook). Rewarding students with an hour lunch for good grades rather than positive behavior would be better because it would encourage students to get good grades, make students responsible for their own hour lunch, and avoid punishing all students for a few students bad behavior. By rewarding students for good grades rather than positive behavior or a clean campus, each student is 100% personally responsible for whether or not they will get an hour lunch. It is completely up to them. When hour lunches are given for a clean campus, many students don’t think about picking up garbage they see around the school because they think, “That’s not mine. I always throw my garbage away,” or “Oh, somebody else will get it. I don’t need to worry about it.” They know there are plenty of other students in the school and don’t feel as responsible to clean things up, especially if it’s not theirs....
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