School Lunches In Schools

With implementing a new healthier lunch schools will be teaching the students healthier eating habits for the rest of their lives. Changing the students’ lunch from a pizza to a healthy salad will help students make better food choices throughout their life preventing diseases such as

In the newspaper article, “No Lunch Left Behind,” by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron, the authors inform the audience, “But food distributed by the National School Lunch Program contains some of the same ingredients found in fast food and the resulting meals routinely fail to meet basic nutritional standards. Yet this is how the government continues to ‘help’ feed millions of American schoolchildren, a great many of them from low-income households”(4). Waters and Heron argue school programs provide unhealthy food on a daily basis, which accustom the students to not having a choice, yet to eat it and not starve. Students may not realize that the food being served is technically as bad as going to a junk food restaurant. The fast food industry is constantly improving everything to get people to come back and order the “new,” that will benefit them in many ways.

Have you ever wondered how the government controls your school lunches? The government controls your school lunches by wisely choosing highly nutritious meals by having many fruits, vegetables, banned unhealthy things, helped children in poverty, and they also created a lunch act. They also balanced out the foods from all five food groups and they have reduced overall fat content by serving more vegetarian main courses, less beef and pork, and fewer fried foods. They have put more of a variety of dishes by serving pasta and tacos and have helped families with low incomes by reducing the costs or having no costs at all for families who qualify. Every school meal is required to meet the dietary guidelines.

I think school lunches are horrible, and lunch ladies should be replaced with good cooks, and should give us kids more food. Many kids are still hungry after lunch because they give us very small portions of food. All the lunch ladies do is put food in the oven or microwave, the school district should have real cooks making our food so it tastes good. Kids will not be starving after lunch if the district gives us more food. More kids will buy the school lunch instead of bringing cold lunches, if the school had good cooks, and made good food.

Most students don 't think the school lunches are very good. In fact at the Thompson school district teamed up with colorado state University and did a survey on how students like school lunches, and it showed that 93% of students would like a better lunch. The lunch we have now in the schools now these days are cheaply made and governed by the government. We need food that tastes good so are brains can function properly the way they need too. Students need their brain to be functioning right so students can pay attention in class.

In Solochek’s article, he interviewed regular students and athletes who said they either by a second lunch, or buy from an outside source such as a vending machine. Parents are outraged at this situation because they have to provide their kids with extra money, or food to make up for what the schools aren’t doing. The students that have to put up with these horrible meals want to be heard, and in order to do that they have two good options: voice their opinions, or throw the food away. Sure these issues bother students and parents, but they even bother government officials, and the members of student lunch

If we had fresh healthy food you would see a significant difference in American obesity problem which is one thing that we need to fix a lot right now. The main problem with school lunches is no one likes them and it seems like they are getting worse and worse

In the 19th century, schools started to see that not many students was provided lunch to bring at school because of the time and money. They wanted to fixed this so they starting to make lunch be provided at schools. They fixed all of that but forgot about the quality of the food. Most students dislike school lunch and this gained a bad reputation from the start. Soon, everyone knows about it reputation so it got referenced in many films, and most of the time it makes school lunch looks awful.

Some examples would be Obesity, the lack of nutrients a child needs, and the influx of chemicals that come with the eating of fast food (Lombardo, ?8 Monumental Pros??). These are problems because America has been fighting against child obesity for years and having open campus lunches near all of these fast food chains and unhealthy food choices would combat the work of the movements against obesity. This is very important because the health of a child affects how the child behaves, learns, and communicates (Lombardo, ?Top 7 Pros and Cons?.?). Studies show that overweight students tend to have more problems with learning and paying attention (Miura). Many parents also fear that children would have the chance to skip school of get into drugs and alcohol while they are loose for their lunch break.

However, this is inaccurate because soft drinks and junk food also prevent focus and success in school. Students at NHS are often distracted the period after they have their lunch. The leading reason for this is that their brains and their bodies cannot refocus after taking in so much sugar. The sugar brings you up to a “sugar high” and gives you a surge of energy. However, once that high of energy is over, one then experiences a crash.