What+foods+are+being+served+within+the+schools?

Meagan Blanchette Annotated Bibliography December 2nd, 2013 EDC 102

Bhatia, R., Jones, P., & Reicker, Z. (2011). Competitive Foods, Discrimination, and Participation in the National School Lunch Program. //American Journal Of Public Health//, //101//(8), 1380-1386. This article discussed the school lunch program that is being enforced across the nation. This article displayed the United States Department of Agriculture strengthening the standard to ensure students health and social equity. The National School Lunch Program offers both à la carte and school lunch meals. This gave students more freedom in their decision on what to eat for lunch and made them more apt to make better decisions. This article had visuals that expressed that showed the correlation between the food being served and the number of students eating the new and renovated meal program.

This article helped me with my research on “what’s being served for school lunches” because it proposed the varying foods being served and how their general audience reacted. Students are their consumers and even though this national school lunch program is putting additional fruits and vegetables available to them during lunch they see this as harmful rather than helpful. As Adolescents they want control over everything and the numbers in this article displayed that the healthier the lunches get the less students are taking advantage of the program. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/64136520/competitive-foods-discrimination-participation-national-school-lunch-program

Nanci HellmichUSA, T. (n.d). Lunch at schools to become healthier. //USA Today//.

This was probably the most useful article throughout this research project. This article discussed the foods being served within schools. This article broke down school lunch to the amount of breads, fruits, vegetables, and fats being available to students within public schools dealing with the Nation School Lunch Program. Hellmich also stated easy ways to make foods more appealing to students without spending a lot of money on doing so. She gave examples of switching out plates for rubber buckets to make healthy food more appealing and inviting to the students receiving lunch. Hellmich was a literary god in explaining health within the school system she did allude to the Nation School Lunch Program, but she went beyond that and made it into a learning experience for all rather than spitting out facts for a peer reviewed article. Hellmich’s article was my golden piece of research. I referred to this article for a majority of my information. The content in this article is completely geared towards my main topic for this project, “what food is served in schools.” This article hit all of the points that I was researching, (i.e. serving size, foods, nutritional content, and the differing health guidelines from the previous health movement.) Although Hellmich does seem to take a dramatic approach at this topic of school lunch, she does it in a non-bias realistic way providing the readers with statistics, examples and creativity. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/LIFE/usaedition/2012-01-25-School-lunch_ST_U.htm Smith, B. (2012, October 21). School lunch rules yield steady diet of discontent. //New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester)//.

Smith’s paper was a reputable source. His research and paper covered the many topics of how the food being served within a majority of the schools throughout the United States are causing students to be limited and rebel about whether or not they eat lunch while at school. Smith wrote about the disconnect introducing healthy nutrition to elementary school children and high school age children. Smith uses the words “told to” as being constructive for elementary and younger age children and destructive for high school students. Smith goes over the legal issues that stem from the USDA in relation the federal reimbursement money for school lunches. The regulations control what is allowed to appear on the menu of school lunches and how much can be served. Smith’s article helped my research because it allowed me to see the backbone of how school lunches are created. This article displayed the facts of how the students become receptive to the idea that nutrition can be beneficial. Smith goes on to discuss in further detail about the presentation of nutrition to an elementary school student can be simple but as the students get older the idea of nutrition needs to appear as being appealing. My apple demonstration stemmed from this paper as a visual representation that visual cues do correlate with the act of healthy eating habits. http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121021/NEWS04/710219916

PR, N. (2013, March 18). Sodexo Partnership with Cornell University's Smarter Lunchrooms Movement Promotes Student Health and Achievement at School Districts Nationwide. //PR Newswire US//.

This analytical journal produced by PR Newswire contributed greatly to my gathering of knowledge about the company that supplies the food to schools. The food company entitled “Sodexho” is the nations largest food provider for schools in the United States. This article also discussed how the new lunch room movement has increased the sale of fruit by 102%, vegetables 40 to 70% and shows that students are making healthier choices overall. This movement had affiliation with Cornell University and there they found that healthy habits can be assisted with many easy and affordable changes that can happen within the school system.

This journal helped me form my final conclusions about my project because of the unbiased response. This research showed statistics and numbers that backed up the theory of attraction and healthy eating. It allowed me as a reader to see the correlation of our materialistic and flashy world carries over into many things that affect people’s lives in more decisions than buying a car or a house, nutrition can also catch your eye.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sodexo-partnership-with-cornell-universitys-smarter-lunchrooms-movement-promotes-student-health-and-achievement-at-school-districts-nationwide-198819961.html

Lee, D. (2013). Point: Public Schools Should Not Be Permitted to Sell Junk Food to Students. //Points Of View: Junk Food In Schools//, 2.

In this article Lee presents all of the outside factors attributing to students health. Lee presents the argument of obesity in America, the food available to students that come from external sources such as vending machines and lastly, the school’s role in the health of students. I thought it was interesting that within this article Lee also presented solutions that can be put in place that he thinks will fix the unanswered question of childhood obesity. Lee presents the point that students spend the largest block of time at school, so therefore the establishment should set an example of what healthy eating habits are. Lee goes on to discuss how at one point it was the schools primary mission to serve each student one hot meal a day. Now the schools focus on not only serving one hot meal and how they can be nutritionally sound while doing so.

This article helped me with my research because it allowed me as a researcher to see the shift in the school’s role. This article allowed for me as a reader see full circle about what the school is evolving. Now the school is more involved and important in the student’s life and now they are responsible for providing each student with a nutritional sound lunch.

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