| Are School Lunches Healthy?
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From
my research I have also discovered that school lunches are full of cholesterol
and fat. They are also low in fruits, nutrients, and vegetables. That is not
good. At a young age you should be getting healthier foods to help you grow. Kids should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables every day instead of junk
food . It gives you the energy, vitamins, and minerals you need for every day
work. (That junk food can't provide) If you don’t get enough
vitamins and minerals you can get seriously ill. Avoid getting high
levels of fat and cholesterol. Definitely, do not get low in vitamins
or minerals. Stay alert of what you are eating.
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Kids Skip Lunch
Lines
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Find
yourself in the lunchroom, watching kids come in and skip the lunch line and go
straight for the vending machines, snack lines or ice cream. Even though the
school lunches are invaded with fat, snacks and ice cream are worse! If you are still hungry after lunch, pack
a fruit snack or something healthy.
Can’t you see that snacks are making children obese? Fatty school
lunches and sugary snacks are not good! People should only have them on
occasion. Believe me only about
one-third of the things schools serve are from the food pyramid. Realize you can
pack a course that is 100% from the food pyramid. Always eat the
healthiest things you can!
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| Decisions
and Avoiding Fatty School lunches |
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Kids can make intelligent
decisions about what they are eating in the lunchroom by doing multiple things.
For example, you could pack your own lunch with healthier items. In addition
your parents would also be saving money. You also can choose one of the few
healthier things on the lunch menu, such as a salad…. and I think that's about
it. Finally, you could refuse to buy the lunches and force the school to
prepare healthier choices. These are some ways kids avoid eating the unhealthy lunches.
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Why
are so Many Children Obese? |
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More than 60 percent of children today are
overweight and 30%
of these children are obese. The number one cause of obese children is school lunches.
The school lunches are too high in fat. So are the snacks schools serve at
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| What Do Most Schools Serve to Eat..? |
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Most school lunches provide pizza, French fries, soda, ice
cream, and chips. Some of the chips they offer are Doritos and Lays Chips. Did
you know that Doritos have 140 calories and Lays chips have 150 calories in one
of the small bags? Don’t you think that’s way too much calories for
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What Is The National
School
Lunch Program? |
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This program operates in almost 100,000 private schools. It
provides nutrition lunches at low cost or free. The school lunch recommendations
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no more than 30% fat intakes |
| less than 10%
saturated fat |
The schools that
participate in this program have to meet these recommendations, but have
decisions on what specific foods they offer.
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