Schools do not realize how the importance of a child’s health. Schools think education, but they forget that if a child is not healthy, they cannot perform well in school. In Rancho Alamitos, vending machines are filled with chips, cookies, and candy. School lunches come in bags and are not prepared fresh on the daily. The school board should start encouraging more healthy foods than before. In order to encourage healthier foods at school, you should change the snacks in the vending machines, promote…
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our generation to your awareness. The quality of school lunches served to us is, I believe, subpar. You have the opportunity to improve the eating habits of hundreds of students. As a previous school lunch eater, I can say the food could be better. I understand the need to limit costs in a school district with money restraints, but fresh foods are so much better for us. Starting from elementary school, we are expected to only enjoy processed fake foods. The majority of kids are seen as picky and this…
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things are about to change. I would change the school lunch menu by making better foods, like having pizza and making sure we have pizza on Mondays and Fridays. I would provide more variety of snacks like cookies, also churros. On Tuesdays the cafeteria would have more mozzarella sticks so kids would have a better lunch. These are the ways I would change the school lunch menu. There should be pizza on Mondays and Fridays because the kids would have a great lunch that everybody would like this lunch…
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School lunch, what happened why do prisoners get better lunch then students’? Lunch is the most important meal of the day it give you fuel to finish the day and to stay awake to finish school. That’s the problems youth are not getting the right portions or not getting food at all. Youth are throwing away the food they get from school they don’t like the taste or the food they are having. More students are throwing their food away because they don’t like what they are having or the taste of the…
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diet, and they need to have a good timing of everything. Not only this but a lot of factors play a big role which leads to this problem. Childhood obesity is not a local problem, it is worldwide as well. We cannot overlook this problem. In the worldwide today you will see this problem. We all can improve this by changing little things in our lives. The parents should know what they have to do to make things better for their children. Childhood obesity can be prevented if we live in a good surrounding…
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York Times talking about the steps we should take to overcome eating habits that can lead to the causes listen . In today’s society to make a difference everyone should try eating healthy and some ways to do that is by taxing junk food,spending more money on healthier lunches and cooking at home meals. By taxing junk foods people are more likely to go the extra mile to get something healthier and cheaper. Also wasting more money on school lunches will have a better impact on students…
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Is Junk Food The True Bad Food? In many school systems across the United States, there are many different opinions on whether or not junk food should be banned. Some people favor the thought of junk food in school systems and feel as though kids should be able to eat what they want. Others believe that schools should provide students with healthier snacks and meals to eat. The true question is, how much is too much? There are certain school systems taking over meal plans and completely…
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School Food Safety and Nutrition Program Here at our school we have a nutrition program and food safety program in place. We are sending this letter home with information for parents to know about what our school is trying to encourage keeping your children healthy. This is some advice on healthy foods to consider in order promoting a better health for your child: Sandwich with jelly Crackers and cheese and pepperoni Yogurt Apple or orange juice Some kind of fruit These are just some examples of…
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grant One day at school they announced that the government had given us a federal grant of 1 million dollars. I think they should be using it to buy better food, getting better and comfortable buses, making the school bigger. Do you think that the school should use the money for these three reasons? Well i am going to explain to you why, in my opinion they should use the money for the stuff i said they should use it for. As i said that better food would keep the students better fed. So the kids would…
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Us students have been put through school for our entire lives, learning everything that will help us be successful in the future. What we do not know is how obesity is taking over the world. We are starting to become very oblivious about if we keep eating the way we do, then we will be helping first hand on increasing the United States' obesity rates. Schools should be focused on helping students eat a healthier diet in order to start decreasing The United States' obesity rates. America's obesity…
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