2.1 Business 100 The School board changed the breakfast and lunch programs to help improve nutrition and health of our children. The changes so far seem to be for the best of all the children. There are four major issue dealing with the changes are, economic situations, Health of population being served, process, and the benefits of the program. One of the four major issues is economic situation. The federal government will add six more cents to each lunch to make it meet the new standards
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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
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child nutrition program feeds over 50 million children a day, 31.6 million of whom receive free lunches.” Fig. A USDA (2011) Mortazavi (2011). Millions of children across the United States depend on a well balanced breakfast and lunch. Not only do these meals fuel the body, but it also fuels the minds to enhance comprehension and retaining what they learn. “For many, especially students from lower-income families enrolled in federally subsidized free and reduced-price lunch programs, these are the
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CHILDREN ADOPT A HEALTH CONSCIOUS LIFESTYLE 2 Helping Children Adopt a Health Conscious Lifestyle Why don't Dick and Jane run anymore in the 21st Century? The answer could be that they don't want to because they are obese. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 16.9% of U.S. children and adolescents aged 2–19 years are obese, and another 14.9% are overweight (2011–2012). Childhood obesity rates have tripled in the last 30 years. Moreover, research indicates
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or on school lunch plates. High-fructose corn syrup can cause obesity in children and since HFCS is used in everything from ketchup to bread, these foods end up in the school systems. Childhood obesity is something every parent should be aware of and one place some do not look at when it comes to childhood obesity would be the school cafeteria. What your child eats is highly important, especially with growing, young children. After doing some research I found out that most of the schools in America
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The focus will be on solutions to prevent obesity by educating parents and schools on how to help children make healthy food choices Parent and schools need to incorporate more fruits and vegetables The National Schools Lunch Programs (NSLP) is challenged with reducing the amount of fat and saturated fat children have that consume lunch from school (Ralston, Newman, Clauson, Guthrie, and Buzby 24). There are national campaigns with a purpose of impacting the alarming rate of childhood obesity
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The Georgia Department of Education’s School Nutrition Program: Overview of Recent Changes to Meal Plan Student Sample Strayer University ENG 115: English Composition Professor Gabriel Smith February 1, 2014 Children in today’s society may end up “hav[ing] a shorter lifespan than their parents” (United States Department of Agriculture, 2013, p 3) per health professionals, if the ongoing issue of childhood obesity is not addressed. It is in reaction to this type of findings that
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all over world that school lunch program are serving this healthy meals but in my school its different. Today Corcoran High School has a lunch program that is serving this reused, processed, and unknown ingredients. For this reason, I would like to propose the lunch program that their food are having us be in danger of being obese and having diabetes. For that, I propose the school board that the following changes should be made if the school intends to have a healthier school system and less students
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administration announced its long-awaited changes to government-subsidized school meals, a final round of rules that adds more fruits and green vegetables to breakfasts and lunches and reduces the amount of salt and fat. Specifically, 38.8 percent of students who routinely eat school lunch were found to be overweight or obese, compared to 24.4 percent of kids who brought their own food from home. The children consuming school food were twice as likely to drink sodas, and a measly 16.3 percent reported
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primary interest of the participants is either emotional or intellectual. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was initially slated to feed malnourished school children whistle supporting the farmers. However, in the 1990s, the program was transformed to an initiative to promoting sound nutrition among the youth. This transformation process is what is referred to as “reinvention” (Stillman 410). To implement this program, there has to be interplay between political and technocratic interests. During
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