Introduction: Should open lunches be allowed in high schools? Many people have said that when teenagers are allowed to eat outside of school, it helps reduce stress and anxiety. Many people feel that open lunches can be very beneficial for students in high school. On the other hand, many people believe open lunches are a bad idea for teenagers, and kids should stay in school the whole day. This topic is a very controversial subject, many sides are discussed and everyone has an opinion on each. This…
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Students Should Be Allowed To Leave School For Lunch School isn’t the best thing in the world for many students, but a lot of these teens look forward to lunch with their friends. Many students don’t eat lunch because they either don’t like it, are on a specific diet or think it is unhealthy. If students were allowed to leave school for lunch they would learn responsibility, how to deal with money, and how to be safe. Students deserve to eat lunch out of school grounds. First of all, Elza Berisha…
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Variety in School Lunch Research Often, the daily lunch at Mendon has been called “gross” because of lack of the more tasteful food. They’ve been replaced by dry vegetables, fruit cups, and whole grain breads and rice. There is less variety lately and increasingly frequently, the healthy foods are being forced upon students. One year, the lunch ladies even made students take fruits with each lunch; we didn’t have a choice. In result, most bring their own lunch but nevertheless there are still frequent…
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to 17.6%)” (“Impact” 1)3. The schools mislead students with the food education curriculum and lunches sold in school; consequently, students continue to consume unhealthy school breakfasts or lunches regularly, increasing the amount of children becoming obese. Students acquire a disadvantage when they listen to and buy school programs that stress every food that contributes to the problem, instead of emphasizing the foods that are healthier. Schools unhealthy lunches and food education curriculum…
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Child Obesity Brittany Potter October 14,2014 Composition 2 Professor N. Martin Child Obesity 2 In the United States today, parents point fingers to fast food restaurants and school lunches, never realizing that the reason their child may be obese is because of the parenting habits in the kitchen. We live in a society where most parents both need to work and are often not home in good time to prepare nutrition meals. They run their children from this event to that…
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discovered several contributing factors are to blame. Throughout the nation, fast food companies have become ubiquitous to the current generation. There promise of cheap, fast, and easily accessible food lures customers in while also ensuring they have a high caloric intake. This along with the huge portions that have become so generic have helped create this epidemic. Likewise, the large amounts of advertisements for these businesses only increase their popularity while hiding the reality…
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would first explain that the food being served at the school is still very unhealthy. Even though it costs a lot more to bring healthier foods into the schools, this can lower obesity in children. The schools should offer more fruit and vegetables instead of cookie and having French fries all the time. At my high school, we also had different lunch lines. We had regular lunch, super lunch and then we also had the salad bar. I think every school should have a salad bar because I know many people who would…
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You’re Killing Yourself! America is the home of fat burgers and fat people. While driving down a main street in any popular city, many will see that it is bombarded with fast food restaurants. Walk into any fast food chain and young people, from the age of six to eighteen, are stuffing their face in processed food, the six year old pushing 100 pounds and the eighteen year old becoming the size of their favorite burger. As depressing as this might be, this is the sad reality of today's generation…
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Mr. Koski English 102 31 January 2014 Fast Food Available in Schools School lunch is very important to our children. One out of every five children will go to bed hungry, and for many children school lunch is the only meal that child will have. School lunches are usually filled with the nutrients that one most obtain to have a healthy way of living. Schools providing lunch also encourage children to go to school and with the lunch being nutritious the children become more energized…
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good grades in high school, and the U.S. ranks #1 for having the most stressed students in the world (“Senior-Year Stress: Here's What Students Say and Do About It”). Letting students leave school for lunch is a good way of helping students reduce the amount of stress they feel during the school day. Allowing students to leave for lunch also has many other positive effects for students, such as the opportunity to learn real life skills. Every school with meal options close by should allow their students…
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