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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.

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.