Food Allergies: Are Schools Doing Enough?

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Fast Food Items in Schools Some students hate lunch food and they would rather have some McDonalds or some Chick-Fil-A. Schools should offer fast food because students would actually eat well at lunch, students will learn how to be responsible, and the school will make money for selling the fast food. First, students would actually eat the food and not starve themselves because the food at lunch tastes really nasty.

“Between 300 and 500 students are eligible for off- campus lunch at one school “(Good Grades 13). Most students drive with friends or drive to go get food, which puts them at risk for danger. Even though off-campus lunch offers more nutritional options, schools should not offer this because leaving campus can lead to danger, and students gain the opportunity to ditch class and make bad decisions. Students should not be able to leave school for lunch for their own safety.

Next, Renner films the agony that parents have to go through in order to get their children to eat healthy. 7 year old, Yan, creates a scene when his parents refuse to give him a bag of potato chips. His parents give in, knowing that this might contribute negatively to his heart health. By showing Yan’s mother crying, Renner creates a connection to the audience. She intends for this clip to spark the emotions of the viewers so that they realize that change is necessary.

Eight times out of ten when I walk through the lunch line and get my serving of vegetables, I look down at a shriveled up revolting mess of green goo. This mass of either under or overcooked vegetables is inedible. If this is what nutrition is, I don’t want to be apart of it. Sadly this is how many students feel nationwide. Sure many people such as Michelle Obama have tried to reform the school lunch menu, but the schools don’t seem to follow the regulations posted.

Schools Need to be Fresher Turlock High School serves as a perfect example of how many public high schools have become oriented around the consumption of junk foods. Most students at Turlock High eat poorly, especially at school. Common lunches at Turlock High include pizza, chicken sandwiches, chicken nuggets, hamburgers, and other heavily processed items. On top of these poor options to be consumed on a daily basis, the fruits and vegetables provided are noticeably not fresh, and due to this many students completely avoid eating them.

Suddenly I was not very hungry anymore and I was kind of grossed out, but I had to eat it because I felt bad that I made my mom make all that food for us again. As I put that spoon full of Jell-O in my mouth I instantly regretted it because I was just gagging everywhere. I left the food and ate something else not thinking much about it. A few weeks later my mother made it again and I also could not eat it, it just made me feel nauseous just by looking at it.

Children’s Food Allergies Affecting Health In the article, Children 's Health: Infancy through Adolescence, Ed. Jacqueline L. Longe, states that, Food allergies are the body’s abnormal responses to harmless foods. The condition affects 6 to 8% of children age 4 and younger. It is very likely for children to be exposed to allergens at school, which means parents and other officials must provide a health safety plan.

This problem needs to be solved. School is a place of learning, and what lunch time is teaching is that it is ok to eat unhealthy food. When I went to public school I was revolted by the disgusting food. The pizza was horrid, the chicken sandwiches were wet, and the salad tasted like dirt and not even good dirt, the dirt with dead thing underground. Honestly

Based on Tom Vilsack about a third of American children are overweight or obese. I think that candy and soda should be banned from school because it is unhealthy for you and there is a higher chance of getting obese. For example, if all children drink soda and are always eating candy then they are going to end up having an unhealthy and an unbalanced diet. At school, I’ve seen a variety of students drinking soda and eating candy. There’s a reason the cafeteria doesn’t provide soda because it is not healthy for you.

Some people suggest that the new lunches are healthier with less salt and fat; however, they fail to recognize kids are disgusted by the food given to them and sometimes throw most of it away. Therefore, Parents should not agree with the new school lunch requirements Admittedly, some people think that kids are getting the required amount of nutrition. They also think this is a low cost way to feed their kids.

Conflicts arose between the culture I was engaged in at school and the culture that my family kept at home. I typically had gimbap, Korean seaweed rice rolls, while my friends ate ham and cheese sandwiches and chips for lunch and spoke about how much money the tooth fairy gave them the night before, a fantasy figure my parents did not know about. My friends would lightly poke fun at my peculiar lunch and it quickly made me feel like an outcast. Additionally, it was hard for me to find a place in school for the first couple of years, as I spoke poor english. It didn’t help that I only spoke Korean at home.

Schools should ban peanut butter by Celine Gonzalez Peanut allergies are dangerous for kids all over the world, but schools still feed kids peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. “Peanut allergies are the body's overreaction to certain proteins found in peanuts. The immune system's response to these allergens is to trigger an antibody, which then triggers other chemicals. One of the scariest results of these chemicals is the chance for anaphylaxis, which is a potentially fatal condition in which sufferers have trouble breathing because of constricted airways, experience a sudden and drastic drop in blood pressure, have an increased pulse rate, and sometimes even pass out.” “Estimates say that in the United States, thousands of people visit the emergency room annually because of allergic reactions to food.

Is a complete ban on nuts the best way for schools to address peanut allergens? This article "Peanuts in Schools: Is a Ban Best?" written by Charles Burnside is about a boy named Nick Williams who is allergic to peanuts. His mom, Kathy Williams, thinks that the school that her child goes to should ban peanuts. Banning peanuts in schools would not be best way to go.

Student Declaration of Independence Preamble: When in the course of life events, we are writing this Declaration of Independence to declare that we should be able to have off campus lunch because what we are served at lunch is basically the same thing from the day before. Us as students should have the right to be able to have our own say in this. Declaration: We hold these truths to be obvious that we should get better lunch or be able to go off of campus to get our own food because here at school we get the same food everyday and the food doesn't even taste real.