...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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...question of how to prevent this issue has been asked time and time again. As a way to address this question, Michelle Obama decided to push for a change. In 2010, Michelle devised the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. In simplified form, this act was put into place to change the school lunch standards to include meals that were higher in nutrients and lower in fats, among other things. Some, out of the many, new regulations include replacing white bread with whole-grain or wheat, including either a fruit or vegetable in every meal, total fat of every meal must be less than or equal to 35% of the total calories, and total sugar levels must be less than or equal to 35% of the total calories or less than...
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...Lunch school programs are trying to become healthier across our nation. This initiative is becoming more common at each school due to economic and student needs. In this paper, we will look at meeting the needs of the students with a planned process. There will be two charts to show progress of the effects the changes have done to the student’s food choices. These choices were derived from the guides given by the USDA (“National School Lunch Program”, 2013). Recent changes to the schools lunch and breakfast menus has helped in keeping students more healthy and driving school cost to more efficient levels (“National School Lunch Program”, 2013). Most schools give students choices to choose their lunch or breakfast choices. While this is a common practice in most schools, students do not always choose healthy meals. The goal is to give only healthy choices to students so that they may increase their nutrition level intake. The guidelines set forth by the USDA, on the student meal index, is what will be used to assess the changes in students nutrition levels (Kay & Condon, 2012 pg 9). The first major change that needs to be done is re-asses the snack machines in the schools. Each school more than likely has one or two snack machines that are accessed by the students. The contents of the snack machines need to be changed to more health conscious items. An example is replacing sodas, or high sugar drinks, with water and low sugar juices. Each school needs to replace candy...
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...eating. Everything I ever eaten here is below 500 calories. This is what brought healthy food choices to my attention. I turn my phone on, and google search, “Deaths from obesity.” I found the website World Health Organization, and a statistic caught my eye, “Around 3.4 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese”(who.int). I had no idea someones diet can kill so many people, and I knew things needed to be changed. I admit, watching what I ingest was not my first priority as a child. Whenever we stopped by a fast food restaurant, I was not thinking how much work it would take to burn all the calories off. Big Macs; Whoppers, Orange Chicken from Panda Express, you name it I ate it. Not just the main course was unhealthy, the drinks and the sides were just as bad. It all added up to more than 1000 calorie meals, which my body could not handle. An average person only needs 2000 calories daily, these meals through off your digestive system. Yet besides, most of the meals had little to no basic nutrients I needed on a daily basis. Veggies and other healthy choices were not important to me. The result of my crazy diet was laziness, overweightness, and depression. I never fully recovered from it, I still eat unhealthy sometimes. But as I age, my diet will be totally different. I believe kids all throughout schooling need to be taught about food. The subjects include making healthy consumption choices, food preparation, avoiding unsafe food providers, and direct...
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...unpleasant school lunch has been around for as long as any high schooler can remember, however, they are unaware of the long lasting dietary habits school lunches are or are not placing into their minds. Unlike the Physical Education department at Central DeWitt, which provides multiple classes such as regular PE, Personal Fitness, and Lifetime Wellness to help students create and maintain lifelong workout routines, the lunch provided is not as beneficial. While there are nutritional guidelines supporting the department, lunches students consume are still high in carbohydrates, sodium, sugar, and other ingredients. According to...
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...Obesity Ruba Albaroudi 150/150 A Obesity is becoming an ever growing issue in the United States. It is very important to completely comprehend the scope and nature of this epidemic. Children spend the majority of their day in school and most of them eat breakfast or lunch at least once a day in the school cafeteria. Serving unhealthy food that have high calories, corn syrup, and is processed contribute toward the growing obesity in our country. Although fast food is convenient and inexpensive, we as a society need to stop eating fast food because it has increased health problems. We have to develop ways to eat healthy instead of tempt to choose fatty food that is served in school cafeterias, can be contributing to children becoming obese. There needs to be adjustments to the menus so schools could serve the proper nutrition that children need to stay healthy, as well as preventing this issue from happening in the future. It is important to understand what children are eating at school and if the can potentially cause them to become obese. The food industry often hides the methods of how their food is being produced using excuses like business secrets to cover it up. However, in the end consumers have the right to know what they are eating. Childhood obesity has escalated over the past decades and it is only getting worse. According to The National Academies Press(2005), “Nationwide, roughly nine million children over six years of age are obese— with...
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...What causes childhood obesity? ENG. 122 January 29, 2012 What causes childhood obesity? Childhood obesity is a serious condition that affects over 25 million American Children. It is very important to completely comprehend the scope and nature of this epidemic. Children spend the majority of their day in school and most of them eat breakfast or lunch at least once a day in the school cafeteria. Is it possible that high calorie processed foods that are served in school cafeteria’s can be contributed to childhood obesity? In this paper, I will discuss the effects of childhood obesity, what I believe contributes to it, the proper nutrition that children need to stay healthy, and what can be done to prevent this from happening in the future. It is important to understand what our children are eating at school and if the foods they are eating can potentially cause them to become obese. Childhood obesity has escalated over the past decades and is only getting worse. According to The National Academies Press, (2005) “Nationwide, roughly nine million children over six years of age are obese— with elevated risks of both health conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension and poor quality of life, possibly throughout adulthood”. Obesity can cause numerous health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and even death. Obesity in our children is now, more than ever, becoming a serious threat...
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...Healthy Eating Plan Comparison People often assume to make a healthy dietary plan that it only requires the idea of setting the goal and choosing a plan and then fighting the urges. Well to my best knowledge that is the easy part. I have been an avid body builder for many years and it has taken a long time to get where I am today, including my dietary habits. I would necessarily call myself a body builder but I am avid health nut, and I frequently pay close attention to my workout regimens and diet, plus nutrition. Some people on the other hand would consider me a body builder, but I honestly do not compete, but I am in physical shape and pretty healthy. Over the years I have defined a perfect diet for my health, and has not changed in about three years, but if I do compare diets from seven weeks ago, it has changed quite drastically. During the first week of the course I had explained how during the next few months I am in the stage of the year where we as body builders call it, lean time. Lean time is where I cut down on my ingestion levels for the sacrifice of losing weight. With dropping the intake level it makes or forces the body to feed off the excess and storage the body absorbed during the bulk months. In my lean months I focus on cutting the calorie intake and including excess amounts of repetitions during my workout and lessen the weight. This means more exercises with less weight, which leans the muscle out and burns the fat around it. The more weight less repetitions...
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...There has been a huge debate between students and the school board at hatch valley high on the idea of closing the campus off from all students during lunch. This method is not needed nor does it need to be enforced for many reasons . one reason is the school food is not appetizing to the students. Also most of the students want to relax during lunch time and mainly get out if the school and relax. Lastly some students also have to be responsible and maybe run errands for their parents during lunch time . For many students eating the lunch that the school provides its not something they enjoy doing. Students often say that the food that the school provides is nasty and disgusting they also believe that there are not enough food for them to keep a healthy diet. For example an athlete has to consume more food than a regular student and some time the lunches provided at the school don't allow them to do that. Many of the students love to go off campus and eat because they have a wide variety of restaurants...
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...School Lunches Remember those school lunches that they used to provide for us throughout elementary all the way up to high school, and if they did not they were about $2.50 a meal. Some kids hated them, others liked them and others just didn’t care as long as they had something to eat in between classes. The importance of school lunches is very high. Many kids always complain about the food, but for some it’s a blessing to them because that’s often their only meal due to their parent’s income. The lunches usually contained a milk, a juice of your choice and a small meal. Breakfast meals varied from cinnamon rolls, to French toast, to burritos, to pizza bagels. Lunch consisted of burritos again, salads, chicken, burgers, macaroni and cheese, chili cheese and beans with crackers or tostadas. And again, any of those meals along with a carton of milk and a juice were only $2.50, of...
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...Final Project Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan Bonnie Williams SCI/241 August 11,2013 Dr. Louis Cohen Final Project Healthy Eating, Nutrition, and Exercise Plan I have dieted much of my adult life. Once I get started, I find that it is easy to stick with, to lose the weight that I want to. My weight problem comes from keeping the weight off after I reach my goal. In order for me to start a diet plan, I need to be motivated. I feel that adding an exercise plan to an eating plan will help my progress as well as make me a healthier person. I, as very many Americans live a very busy life-style. I work full time, have a large family, and go to school full time. My biggest challenge is making the time to exercise and sticking with it. During my adult years, my weight has fluctuated in between 125lbs and 200lbs. My height is 5’’8’ I feel the ideal weight for my height is in the 140lbs to 150lbs range. Currently I am 185lbs so getting down to my desired weight is not impossible, but will need me to be prepared to make the time and get myself on the right track. Choosing an eating and exercise plan is not easy, you have to choose goals that are achievable, If you set your schedule and plan to strict, you will grow tired or find the regime to hard to maintain. I have chosen an eating and activity plan that will fit easily into my daily schedule with just a few modifications. Nutrition Plan: My nutrition plan that I plan on implementing will improve my eating...
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...stomach, fogging the mind and draining the spirit. Countless of people have experienced this unpleasant experience, including miserable seniors, who exchange their lunch for leaving a few hours early. Mesquite has a problem, the school’s cafeteria does not accommodate the students without a lunch hour. Seniors, lost in the excitement of a shorter school day neglect to remember a food source is important for their final year of high school. Stuck in classes while the cafeteria is open for business, the affected seniors look forward to racing out of school to get their food from unhealthy fast food restaurants. Spending all their hard earned money on expensive processed food that has no nutritional gain for the mind and body. As they make their way to the parking lot they pass by the elusive aroma of the cafeteria across the courtyard but the scent only tickles their noses and teases their stomachs because they know from experience the cafeteria closes up shop as the bell rings and an attempt at grabbing food on the way out will not end in satisfaction. To address this situation Mesquite High School should implement a Senior lunch pass. Assessment...
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...There were very few children with physical disabilities such as Cerebral palsy but there was child with Epilepsy. I am going to focus this part of my investigation on the needs of the children that attend Chalkwell hall Infant School. My client group has needs related to health, social, and developmental care. When I visited Chalkwell Hall Infant school I was able to observe how these needs were met within the service by observing the children in reception. The children in reception were aged 4-5 years. This was their first year at Chalkwell Hall. Physical needs The children in reception are given a healthy snack of a fruit or vegetable and milk or water in the morning between 10:00-10:30. They then have a healthy balanced lunch that can be in the form of school dinners, packed lunch or the children can have lunch at home. To ensure that the children's packed lunches are healthy children are not allowed to have chocolate bars and any food containing nuts to ensure that children with nut allergies are not affected. They also provided special lunches if needed for children with allergies such as milk allergies or cultural differences (Muslims don’t eat pork). The school provide this nutrition for them to...
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...health. Examples of good nutrition are fruits and vegetables and sometimes even the good food can be made bad. Potatoes are a good vegetable but are sometimes made with extra ingredients making it known as a fatty food that is bad for your health. Summary of Article In a Los Angeles Times article there was a story of how potatoes are being accused of having a bad reputation for people’s health. Experts are defending the potato for getting a bad reputation but that is overstated because it is linked to frying. “Potatoes have taken a mashing lately, being blamed over others foods for peoples long- term weight gain and possibly being limited in favor of other vegetables for school lunches” (Kridel & April, 2011). The potato is actually the essential food that feeds people in developing countries but in the U.S. it is seen as a bad food because it is a fast food side dish with loads of butter, cheese, bacon bits, and sour cream with salt. Schools are changing their school lunch meals by limiting the amount of starchy vegetables which includes most of the potato dishes. Potatoes offer valuable nutrients if they are eaten with the skin but when they are deep friend and added with sat and ketchup it ends up being nothing but calories. Updates it is presenting The update that is being presented is that since people are not consuming potatoes healthy, schools are changing the lunch menus. Schools are replacing French fries and tater tots with more vegetables. “The idea is to introduce...
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...campaign needs to focus on parents, teachers and other potential influencers to possibly put limits on the children’s activities and to make them get up and be active instead of letting it be an idea that quickly passes. Parents, teachers and other influential people have a huge part in children’s lives. For the most part, they pick what the children eat, where they go, when they go places and what they are allowed and not allowed to do. Therefore, more attention and involvement should be given to the parents and other influential people in children’s lives. These influential people can teach the children to live a healthier lifestyle instead of relying on a campaign to convey the message to children. They need parents and other adults to be the mediators who take the message from the campaign and make sure the children follow through and have the means to follow through; for example healthy foods to eat and the resources to go outside and play or be active. In my opinion the appropriate balance between these groups depends on the time of the day and when the children are with them. For example, an appropriate balance between teachers and parents would be the time the children spend in school versus the time the children spend at home. The parents should be in charge of packing a healthy lunch for...
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