...Breakfast and Lunch Mercy Becky 11- 02-2013 Abstract The present and future wellbeing of children is affected by the type of food they eat. Since children get most of their calorie intake from school lunch and breakfast, schools contribute to their lifelong health and dietary patterns. Schools have to be models for healthy eating habits. Improving school meal program is very crucial in our children nutrition and health. Especially as childhood obesity is a big concern in our nation and it is a cause for many chronic illnesses like type 2 diabetes, blood pressure and high cholesterol. Different studies and researches have shown that school meals are risk factors for childhood obesity. In an effort to stop obesity and the associated health risks, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama to change School Lunch Program (SLNP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP). The Law requires USDA to establish science based nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools during the school day. With the law signed there are different issues that come with it including the economic situation, the health of the population being served and the process and benefits of the program. Nutrition and Health: The Recent Changes into the School Lunch and Breakfast One of the issues related with the recent change in school lunch and breakfast is the economic situation. The government increased 6 cents per meal reimbursement for school lunch and breakfast...
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...Have you ever been at school, so hungry, then reach in your pockets and only have a dollar? I, personally have done this many times and thought in my head “I wish we had a food vending machine.” School lunches can be so expensive and they continue to rise about $0.30, or 12 percent, every year ( School Nutrition Association 2017 ). Elementary school lunches are, on average, $0.26 cheaper than high school lunches, but each are being fed the same amount of food. Even though 18 percent of 12 to 19 year olds are considered obese, schools should have a junk food vending machine in the halls because kids get hungry during the day, some lunches are too expensive, and more expensive for the schools to provide. Often times in middle school or junior...
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...The Breakfast and Lunch Programs Jennifer Harvey-Mitchell Professor Storms Eng. 115: English Strayer University November 15, 2012 Overview Congress passed the National School Lunch Act in 1946 to support commodity prices after World War II by reducing farm surpluses while providing food to school children. By 1970, the program was providing 22 million lunches on an average day, about a fifth of them subsidized. Since then, the subsidized number of children has increased while paid lunches have declined, but not since 1972 have so many additional children become eligible for free lunches as in fiscal year 2010, 1.3 million. Today it is a $10.8 billion program providing 32 million lunches, 21 million of which are free or at reduced price. The number of students receiving subsidized lunches rose to 21 million last school year from 18 million in 2006-7, a 17 percent increase, according to an analysis by The New York Times of data from the Department of Agriculture (Dillion, 2011). The Palm Beach County School District has altered its breakfast and lunch programs to improve nutrition and health for all students. The new Federal Nutrition Standards require schools to offer students more fruit, vegetables, and whole grains and to limit the sodium, calories, saturated and trans fat in school meals according to the School Nutrition Association (SNA 2012). Most notably, cafeterias are serving fruits and vegetable in a variety of ways to appeal to students diverse...
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...Statistics in Business QNT/275 Our assignment was to collect data about our chosen business problem, which we addressed in the first part of the project. The problem is the difficulty of reaching the target audience to market the free wireless devices and services to them while filtering through the negative and irrelevant responses from people that don't need the service. The opportunity that StandUP Wireless has is to make a profit while providing a much needed service to people that could not otherwise afford cellular service. So we have seen that we need to address how people qualify to receive a phone from the Lifeline program launched by StandUP Wireless, so Kimberly illustrated that to participate in the program, subscribers must either have an income that is at or below 135% of the federal Poverty Guidelines or participate in one of the following assistance programs: * Medicaid; * Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps or SNAP); * Supplemental Security Income (SSI); * Federal Public Housing Assistance (Section 8); * Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); * Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF); * National School Lunch Program's Free Lunch Program; * Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance; * Tribally-Administered Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TTANF); * Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR); * Head Start (if income eligibility criteria...
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...Food for Thought: Improving School Lunch Programs Clorissa Torres Lindsay Ludvigsen English 115 February 20, 2013 Schools across the nation have implemented a new breakfast & lunch program, to include healthier choices amongst children, adolescents and teens eating in their school cafeterias every day. The program was designed to allow the children attending school to receive healthy, low cost or free meals while fighting childhood obesity and hunger. The National School Lunch Program is a federally-assisted program implemented across the nation within public or non-profit private schools and day cares with children high school age & under. The program itself is costing 11.1 billion dollars to run in 2012-13 which is only 5.73 percent of the US budget. The money it is costing the US to run the program is allowing 32 million children a chance to have at least two whole meals a day, with a possible snack if they participate in a school-based after school programs. The USDA also provides the schools participating with federal cash and commodity support. The program entails that for each child who receives free lunch, the school will get $2.86 cents back, for each child who receives reduced lunch the school will get $2.46 cents back & for each child who pays for lunch the school will get $.70 cents back ; this also entails that for every snack a child receives free the school will receive $.78 cents, for every snack a child receives reduced the school...
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...The National School Lunch Program The most recent change to the National School Lunch program which went into effect July 1, 2012, the first change in over fifteen years, provides nutritious meals that contain one-third of the recommended dietary allowances. Tennessee’s school nutrition program is responsible for all the public schools in Tennessee, which are on the National School Lunch Program. With this change, it became required for schools to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat or fat free milk in school meals. It also includes reducing levels of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat in meals. On January 12, 2010 the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a purposed rule to update the nutrition standards for meals served in schools as part of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010. The main focal point of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 was to improve child nutrition. The child obesity rate and the children who live in poverty that were going hungry were the economic issues that surrounded the act. “During 2007–2008, 20% of U.S. children aged 6–11 years and 18% of persons aged 12–19 years were obese, percentages that have tripled since 1980. Engaging children and adolescents in healthy eating and regular physical activity can lower their risk for obesity and related chronic diseases” (5‐Year Technical Assistance and Guidance Plan for Local School Wellness Policies, 2011). The program authorizes funding and sets the...
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...program feeds over 50 million children a day, 31.6 million of whom receive free lunches.” Fig. A USDA (2011) Mortazavi (2011). Millions of children across the United States depend on a well balanced breakfast and lunch. Not only do these meals fuel the body, but it also fuels the minds to enhance comprehension and retaining what they learn. “For many, especially students from lower-income families enrolled in federally subsidized free and reduced-price lunch programs, these are the main meals of the day.” Grainger, Senauer, and Runge (2007). Revamping the National School Lunch program will help meet economic goal, provide healthier choices for pre-school, elementary and high school children across the nation. In 1966 the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) was passed to create a milk program, breakfast program, government funding to start the program and a preschool program (Mortazavi, 2011). Apart of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, it had to be approved every five years, most recent being scheduled for 2009 but was passed for one year to introduce the current 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill which President Obama signed in December 2010 Fig. B. Somodevilla (2010) (Mortazavi, 2011). This act was introduce to do two things, provide kids sufficient calories and consumes surplus commodities. “The HHFKA makes positive changes to existing legislation. Notably, it increases funding for the School Lunch Program, allows the USDA to regulate competitive foods, requires the USDA's...
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...tax payers. With childhood obesity reaching all time highs president Barack Obama has implemented changes to what is required in the nations cafeterias. “The Healthy, hunger-free kids act, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010, requires all government-subsidized lunch programs to double the amount of fruits and vegetables they serve to children, and serve only whole grains for all grain products” (Allen, 2012) With these new requirements schools are mandated to meet comes additional cost that is not covered by the budget allocated for the school food programs. Allen (2012) found that the changes will take place in 2013-14, will increase the budget for the school program by $3.2 billion, per meal 14 cents, to the already established $11 billion school lunch program. With increased costs and no new funding the additional cost is passed on to the schools, Allen (2012) one school district Shenedehowa’s, lost $23,000 in a recent year, the first shortcoming in years. Schools have to find ways to fund these programs; Allen (2012) found how the previously mentioned school managed “The department dipped into its reserves to cover the shortage, caused by a combination of rising fuel and food prices.” Schools will continue to become creative to find new ways to fund The Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act. For the President...
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...The Public Needs To Know Arlette Perez Professor Traci Wilmoth English Composition 115 2/07/2012 Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. In 1980, the obesity rate of 6-11 year olds was 6.5%; in 2008 it tripled to 19.6%. For toddlers and preschoolers aged 2-5, the obesity levels have risen from 5% to 12.4% in the same amount of time. Schools do not generally provide healthy food options, and kids with meal assistance plans have no choice but to consume unhealthy food items. Even kids with options often have an array of processed snacks, fried foods, sweets and sodas to purchase, and very few healthy options (Spark 2009). It is time to change the way our youth eats. According to a recent Brookings Institute report, health economists have estimated that obesity will cost the U.S. about $215 billion. The report identified the four major categories that contribute to that amount: direct medical costs, productivity costs, transportation costs and human capital costs (Hammond, Levine, 2010). In other words, obesity has a direct effect on four areas that usually have a direct effect on the American economy. With more than 60 percent of Americans considered at least overweight and one-third considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it will not be long before obesity is an expected portion of taxpayer money (CDC.gov). Obesity does affect the economy, healthcare and unemployment. And it will take more than grassroots movements in...
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...kids are not always eating a healthy meal and to make up for the loss the national school lunch and school breakfast program was established. I do believe that this is a good idea to keep our kids from being obese and teaching them healthier eating options. The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs were established to align them with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Most schools are increasing the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat free and low fat fluid milk in school meals; reduce the levels of sodium, saturated fat and trans fat in meals; and meet the nutrition needs of school children within their calorie requirements,” (Federal Register, 2012). Our kids will still be able to enjoy their breakfast and lunch, it’s just a little healthier than what it used to be. To improve lunches and breakfasts, schools are required to offer fruits and vegetables as two separate meal components. Fruit daily at breakfast and lunch, vegetable daily at lunch, including specific vegetable subgroups weekly. A daily meat/ meat alternate at breakfast, fluid milk that is fat free (unflavored and flavored) and low fat (unflavored only). Students are required to select a fruit or a vegetable as part of the reimbursable meal. “The National School Lunch Program supports student nutrition in over 101,000 schools and residential facilities,” (Federal Project, 2014). Free and reduced priced meals are provided to low income children before school, during school...
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...C) Have limited economic wants and limited resources D) Have unlimited economic wants, but limited resources Answer: D Topic: The Economic Perspective Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 01-01 Bloom’s: Level 1 Remember AACSB: Analytic [QUESTION] 4. As a consequence of the problem of scarcity: A) There is never enough of anything B) Individuals have to make choices from among alternatives C) Production has to be planned by government D) Things which are plentiful have relatively high prices Answer: B Topic: The Economic Perspective Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 01-01 Bloom’s: Level 1 Remember AACSB: Analytic [QUESTION] 5. What is the economic meaning of the expression that "there is no such thing as a free lunch"? A) It means that scarce resources are used up to provide freebies and giveaways B) It means that...
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...02/23/2013 Improvements in Health and Nutrition for Schools Changes in schools reveal the analysis of kids getting unhealthy menus which causes them not to get enough nutrition. In today’s society schools as a general, most kids are not eating healthy. The school lunch menus have a lot of unhealthy items on them. Kids do not get enough nutrition eating what schools have for lunch. The best place to start out is at a young age where kids are getting the right nutrition. On menus at schools kids eat unhealthy items like pizza and tater tots. Some snack machines have unhealthy items in them too. I think there should be an improvement in the health and nutrition of kids. As stated by (Michelle, 2004), “snacking is a common feature of the diet of adolescents and promoting healthy snacks that may constitute a starting point in the fight against tooth decay and non-communicable disease later in life”. In school lunch programs fruits and vegetables are what kids can start out eating at their young age. I think most kids aren’t eating healthy because some parents can’t afford to feed them. For parents who can’t afford to feed their kids they are participating in the school’s government free lunch program, but the free lunch program still has a lot of unhealthy items on it. Here are some quotes stated by people and their opinions of the school program. As stated by (Domel, 1997), “a questionnaire was used to gather information about school adolescents’ dietary, their sources of nutrition...
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...2 Monday EATING PLAN (Detox …no afternoon gym/light exercises) Breakfast : unsweetened tea, decaf coffee (no sweetener, and skimmed or fat free milk) Fruit &Veg Smoothie/Protein Shake/1 fruit mid-morning: glass of fruit juice (100%) Lunch: cup a soup (lite) or homemade veg soup Mid-afternoon: glass of fruit juice (100%) Supper: cup a soup (lite) or homemade veg soup drink water in between (2L) FITNESS Run 5km+ or 45min Spin OR 20min skip 75 Squats 30 crunches 30s Planks 30 Sit ups 30 Leg raises (don't forget to stretch after your workout) Drink water Tuesday EATING PLAN Breakfast: 2 poached eggs (eat one yolk), tomato and cucumber, mushrooms Snack: 1 fruit (choose from the list) Lunch: 4 Provitas/Ryvitta, Lettuce and tomato 4tbsps fat free cottage cheese or 2 tablespoons tuna (no oil) Snack: choose one from the list (about 30g per serving) Supper: Grilled steak/chicken/fish (size: palm of your hand) and 2 cups veggies ..choose any 2 from the list FITNESS Run 5km+ or 45min Spin OR 20min skip 75 Squats 30 crunches 30s Planks 30 Sit ups 30 Leg raises (don't forget to stretch after your workout) Drink water Wednesday EATING PLAN Breakfast: 1 slice brown/lowGI/Wholewheat bread, 2 tablespoon mince or 2 slices ham and tomato (no butter/margarine) Snack: 1 fruit (choose from the list) Lunch: Fruit Salad (1 cup in total) and 250ml Fat Free yoghurt you can add mixed seeds Snack: choose one from the list (about 30g per serving) Supper: Grilled Hake/Kingklip/Pork Fillet/Turkey/Ostrich...
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...As obesity has been a rising issue in the United States, the question of how to prevent this issue has been asked time and time again. As a way to address this question, Michelle Obama decided to push for a change. In 2010, Michelle devised the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. In simplified form, this act was put into place to change the school lunch standards to include meals that were higher in nutrients and lower in fats, among other things. Some, out of the many, new regulations include replacing white bread with whole-grain or wheat, including either a fruit or vegetable in every meal, total fat of every meal must be less than or equal to 35% of the total calories, and total sugar levels must be less than or equal to 35% of the total calories or less than...
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...Some kids hated them, others liked them and others just didn’t care as long as they had something to eat in between classes. The importance of school lunches is very high. Many kids always complain about the food, but for some it’s a blessing to them because that’s often their only meal due to their parent’s income. The lunches usually contained a milk, a juice of your choice and a small meal. Breakfast meals varied from cinnamon rolls, to French toast, to burritos, to pizza bagels. Lunch consisted of burritos again, salads, chicken, burgers, macaroni and cheese, chili cheese and beans with crackers or tostadas. And again, any of those meals along with a carton of milk and a juice were only $2.50, of...
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