disturbs me that nearly half of the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day (Anderson & McFarlane‚ 2011). In our community of Hampton Roads‚ more than 87‚700 children are eligible to participate in reduced price or free lunch programs at area public schools (Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia‚ 2013). Studies have shown that children who suffer from food insecurity also endure adverse effects on their physical‚ behavioral and mental health‚ development‚ and academic achievement (Foodbank
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“Where do you want to sit for lunch?” I said as my friends and I made our way through the crowded lunch room. “The lunch line is all they way out to the hallway‚” my friend said in disbelief. The lunchroom is not big enough for all of these kids and the lines are too long to wait in. At most high schools lunch is the best time of the day‚ but also the busiest. School lunches don’t look appetizing and are not the healthiest. Personally‚ I bring my lunch everyday just for those reasons‚ but
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National School Lunch Program Do you like affordable food? What about a healthy meal? “A starving child is a frightful sight‚ ” says Anne Rice during an interview. Some would say that school meals taste‚ smell‚ and look gross‚ but the meals are balanced so that every one is healthy like in the My Plate on www.letsmove.gov. The National School Lunch Program should continue in schools because it helps low-income families‚ the meal is healthy‚ and the school benefits from the funds. The National
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It is the beginning of the school year and there are numerous changes at Stillwater Area High School that are now being implemented such as the new lunch schedule. With this new lunch schedule it adds an additional lunch giving us four lunches and cuts the normal lunch time of 30 minutes to 25 and here’s why. You see the reasoning of this additional fourth lunch is to accommodate for the rapid increase of students. For instance last year there was around 1‚400 students that went to SAHS ‚ this year
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National School Lunch Program is usually administered by State education agencies‚ which operate the program through agreements with school food authorities. 2. How does the National School Lunch Program work? The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in over 101‚000 public and non‐profit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced‚ low‐cost or free lunches to more than 31 million children each school day in 2009
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social security‚ Medicare‚ Medicaid and school lunch. Social security set up economic security for millions of Americans retirees‚ disabled persons‚ and families of retired‚ disabled or deceased workers. Social security established in the United States in 1935 in the year 1965 Social Security Amendments which established Medicare and Medicaid‚ promising that they would "improve a range of health and medical services for Americans of all ages. The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal
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Childhood Obesity & Schools By 01/09/12 Today‚ childhood obesity is a major epidemic facing our society. Since 1980‚ the rate of childhood obesity has doubled‚ and has tripled in adolescents. (CDC‚ 2006) Childhood obesity rates have increased dramatically over the past four decades‚ quadrupling among children ages 6-11 and more than tripling among youth ages 12-19. This statistic alone shows how prevalent childhood obesity is in the US. The U.S. Surgeon General has
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School lunch is so much more healthy for you then the food outside of school. The fact that they put diet soda in the vending machine and make food taste like fake food is just great. If anything there should be regular soda and food that tastes good. School food is meant to be good for you but no one enjoys it anyways. So some aren’t eating ‚ or there just forcing themselves to eat. The foods should be ordered normally from a store‚ not from a special‚ high quality business. Everyone just loves
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Persuasive essay Yum‚ yum; another school lunch… While some of our foods are “out of this world”‚ we sometimes find nasty “here on earth” human hairs in our foods! My friends and I find this disgusting! It makes the school look bad‚ and it’s very unhealthy‚ and could cause a job loss for our lunch ladies. Who wants to give any kind of an award or recognition to a school with problems like these? While my school shines bright with our great teachers‚ our past Taks test scores‚ no one can ignore
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Christian Tancredi School Lunch in the U.S. – Love or Avarice? In the U.S. the debate with regards to school lunches never seems to settle. Advocates for lunch boxes‚ or brown-bags‚ argue that school lunches are not healthy enough for the children. Others say that removing school lunch completely would entail graver and more direct problems. This essay will argue for keeping the school lunch and the importance of improving it. The main reason people want to remove school lunches concerns the
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