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    1915 Yellowstone Avenue Milpitas‚ California 95035 January 6‚ 2011 1915 Yellowstone Avenue Milpitas‚ California 95035 Dear Mrs. Leticia Villa-Gascon: I am a student at Rancho Milpitas Middle School. I have noticed that there is a lot of homework given to kids these days in America and around the world. Since I’m a student‚ I would like to remind the adults that not only do we don’t like homework‚ we all agree that homework makes our lives stressful‚ since almost every student has to

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    state of school lunches has been a point of debate for many since Michelle Obama’s Healthy‚ Hunger-Free Kids Act signed into law December of 2010‚ giving full authority to the USDA in setting the nutritional standards for all foods regularly sold in school lunch lines‚ stores‚ and vending machines. The law was set to provide additional funding to meet the updated standards‚ however‚ the cost was severely underestimated. Using data provided by Medicaid‚ eligibility for the free or reduced school lunch

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    Savannah Elwell English 1010 Conner 7:30 First literature review When people talk about obesity and health in America‚ it is usually all the same kinds of things. People are aware that America has a problem with obesity‚ but is anyone really doing anything about it? There are different programs that try their hardest to get people active and eating healthy but that only does so much. When older folds talk about the subject‚ they bring up the conversation of “when I was a kid‚ we didn’t have

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    Health and Wellness Term paper Obesity in children Obesity is a growing problem with children in the world. Obesity is not an issue that is just United States specific‚ many countries are dealing with overweight and obese children. “Obesity in children has more than doubled in the past 30 years and it is thought to continue to grow” (Whiteman). With obesity in children on the rise diseases and health issues is also rising. There are two reasons for these rises in obesity‚ and they are children do not

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    The food served at most public schools is unhealthy. There is no possible truth than that. School food is made to be served as quickly and as cheaply as possible to all the kids in that school. Meals that are served in this way are bound to be unhealthy‚ as can be ascertained from pizzas with enough grease to fill a pint of milk‚ not to mention the unhealthy choices of milk pints. All of the schools that serve their food this way should know that they need to rework their lunches to make them healthier

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    Schools: How they can help prevent Obesity “Selling Obesity at School” first appeared in the New York Times newspaper in 2009. In this editorial the writer aims to convince the readers that obesity is a major conflict in our schools. Logic‚ Credibility‚ and Emotions are techniques the writer skillfully uses to create a strong convincing article. The writer begins by talking about the federal school lunch program. He/she uses background information about the School lunch program to build our credibility

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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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    Obesity: A Complex Problem with a Simple Solution Many people in the United States believe that if it weren’t for fast food restaurants‚ they would not be obese. McDonald’s has been blamed 100% and sued for individual weight problems of Americans. While fast food may be one of the contributors to the obesity epidemic‚ it surely doesn’t stand-alone. Obesity is caused by many factors‚ depression‚ sedentary lifestyle‚ overeating disorders and food choices. Many of those factors are learned and

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    American culture promotes unhealthy eating habits in children. “Childhood obesity is a major public health concern‚ and has more than doubled since the 1970’s” (Ludmila 1). This can be a big dilemma because kids are developing an unhealthily lifestyle so young. America’s public schooling system needs to be held responsible for the causes of child obesity and make changes to accommodate the effects. Changes should be made in schools lunch menus and the types of foods found in vending machines. More classes

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    living in more dense environments‚ in cities where they are removed from traditional food sources and dependent on an industrial food supply‚" says Neville Rigby‚ director of policy and public affairs for the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Modernization is causing countries with small populations and few resources to depend on imported‚ often over-processed food. "The Western diet overwhelms‚ and many people are not genetically engineered to cope with this‚" says Rigby. Countries

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