School Lunches

The link I have inserted takes you to a reputable source that discusses how school lunches fail to improve students health. Among many other reasons I am looking into for my paper, this source focuses on school lunches failing to improve health because students simply do not eat the healthy food. A study explained in the article talks about even when students in a random survey choose healthy items on their tray seventy five percent of them took barley a barley one bite of protein and an even sadder twenty four percent had only one bite of whichever vegetable they took. Something that surprised me in this article was the talk about how environmental factors affect what children eat. Things like noise level, eating with administrators, longer periods of time, and other factors showed impacts on the amount and types of food eaten. As short as a few years ago, schools used to find loopholes in health regulations and serve worse lunches, and now with stricter regulations schools have to use trial and error methods to find out what students most enjoy. Not enough has been added to the regulations to ensure school lunches are properly prepared. The new “healthy” foods fail to account for processing additives and 90% of the time the food is frozen and pre prepared. If you are like me and your question involves the school lunch program you may want to look into this article.
Link-https://www.google.com/amp/www.medicaldaily.com/students-arent-eating-healthy-school-lunches-despite-availability-how-cafeterias-fail-310934%3famp=1

-Brooke Sasse