Essays on School Lunches

Childhood Obesity: An Overview

The rate of childhood obesity remains to be high in the past years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015b), 17 percent of children and teenagers or 12.7 million young individuals in the United States are affected by obesity during the past decades. Childhood obesity in children is determined by the child’s body mass index (BMI). Compared to children of the same weight and gender, a child is considered obese if his or her BMI is in the 95th percentile (Anderson & Butler, 2006). This is a serious condition. Obesity increases mortality and morbidity and presents ...

Defining and describing the issue

The school-aged children experience many health challenges caused by poor diet. Children and young adults spend most of their time in school, and many have meals made in schools. The nutrition quality of these meals has a lot of impact on the health outcome of the child; hence, need to create a standard nutrition guideline that determines the type of food, the type of ingredients, and amount served to children during lunches. Many governments have implemented policies and legislations on school meals to prevent children from consuming unhealthy and unbalanced diets. The following paper uses the Local School Wellness ...

Should government impose restrictions on what kinds of foods

can be served in school cafeterias?

There are many reasons and justifications which support the government restrictions on the types of food being served in school cafeterias. The major reason is about the promotion of children’s health. Second, it is all about fighting obesity. Third, this is also about fighting the rampant commercialism in food advertisements. Other reasons include parental consent, among others.

This paper explores the various reasons why the government must impose restrictions on the foods served in their schools’cafeterias. It gives full support and justification to the various policies and regulation being implemented by ...