School Lunch Program It has always been a challenge to ensure that children are eating the proper foods when they eat school lunch or any other meal of the day. The proper balance has to be struck between providing foods that the students will like and actually eat and providing foods that are actually nutritious. Striking the balance in the wrong way leads to wasted food and resources in some instance. In other instance, it leads to nutritional goals not being met. School sales and fundraising is also an issue that must be address. While school lunches are not the most important thing in the world, they are very important when it comes to raising and educating the children of today and the adults and workforce of tomorrow.
Even with the challenges and issues that exist, there are many districts and groups that have tackled the challenge with fervor and vigor. There…...

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References

Open Campus. 2017. "From Nuggets To Nourishment: Kids And Food".  Opencampus.Newschool.Edu.

RWJF. 2008. "Impact of Federal Commodity Programs On School Meal Nutrition". RWJF. https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2008/09/impact-of-federal-commodity-programs-on-school-meal-nutrition.html.

School Food Focus. 2017. "School Food Focus – Igniting Change". Schoolfoodfocus.Org. http://www.schoolfoodfocus.org/.

Smedley, Emma. 2011. The School Lunch. 1st ed. New York, NY: Ulan Publishing.

https://opencampus.newschool.edu/courses/CENC/6135/NFDS/0240/A/from-nuggets-to-nourishment-kids-and-food/

Ethical Dilemma: Food Insecurity
Steps to reduce food insecurity and poor nutrition

The ethical challenge in alleviating food security is balancing the principles of choice and autonomy with the need to ensure that people consume healthy, nutritious foods. For example, it would be theoretically possible to force people to eat a healthy diet by having a single mandatory school lunch for all students and limiting the types of foods that could be bought by persons using EBT, but this would be too restrictive of individual liberties. Conversely, one could have no financial support for school lunches or EBT and no restrictions on diets but this would result in a rise in both hunger and a reliance on non-nutritious foods.

Introducing healthier foods in the schools while still promoting better eating habits is important. Children get a significant percentage of calories from the foods they consume in school: "children consume 40% of their daily…...

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References

Bernstein, S. (2010). Restaurant group plans to fight fast food restrictions in Los Angeles.

LA Times. Retrieved from:  http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/11/business/la-fi-fast-food-fight-20101112 

Martin, C. (2013). Improving school lunches by design. The New York Times. Retrieved from:

 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/rethinking-school-lunch/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Harvard Brief Cases called TruEarth Healthy Foods - Market research a New Product Introduction...case # 4065 Two parts assignment (A & B) Part A. One paragraph background/situation Part B: Please address case questions attached find a copy excel spreadsheet guideline "hint" determining demand levels.
TruEarth Healthy Foods -- Market research for a new product introduction

TruEarth was established in 1993 in St. Louis, Missouri as the provider of gourmet pastas and sauces, made from higher quality ingredients. The products were launched under the Cucina Fresca brand name and they have attracted significant customer satisfaction. Throughout the past recent year, the company had been engaging its efforts in the creation of a new product line, namely the whole fresh pizza. The launch of the new product is now being assessed, in a context of massive investments and sales decreases in pasta and sauces product lines.

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References:

Allen, G.J., Albala, K., 2007, The business of food: encyclopedia of the food and drink industries, ABC-CLIO

Rangan, V.K., Yong, S., 2009, TruEarth Healthy Foods: market research for a new product introduction, Harvard Business Publishing

Business of Obesity
Obesity is big business according to Ashley Matuszak. A recent article in the New York Times revealed that 34% of American adults and 17% of American children are currently obese. This is twice as many adults, and three times as many children than just 20 years ago. Despite all the information available on the negative effects of poor eating habits the number of obese people continues to climb.

Matuszak contends that this development has led many major corporations to target overweight people, urging them to buy such things as workout DVDs, pre-packaged frozen dinners, and gym memberships, creating a new and lucrative market they do not want to lose. Another corporate culprit profiting from and some feel responsible for the rapid rise in obesity is the fast food industry. Over this same period, the number of fast food restaurants more than doubled. Facing fierce competition for customer loyalty,…...

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Total Contribution = unit contribution x sales= $5 x $25,000= $125,000

Operating income= Total Contribution -- Fixed Costs= $125,000= $80,000 = $45,000

DOL at 25,000 bags = $125,000/$45,000=2.7778

Why does the degree of operating leverage change as the quantity sold increases?

The Degree of operating leverage is a unit of measure on the return on fixed assets. The degree represents the ratio between a change in profits and a change in revenue. A higher ratio is a sign of increased variability in revenue and therefore higher risk. Higher ratios usually occur when the amount of units sold are closer to the break-even point and usually decreases as the amount of units sold increases. This phenomenon is because fixed costs are decreasing in relative importance and variable costs are increasing in relative importance as the number of units sold increases. Thus, the degree of operating leverage is ?declining.

D. If Healthy Foods has an annual interest…...

Food Security and Feeling Secure in the World:
The critical links between food security and social justice

When evaluating the relative security of a nation, it is only natural to focus upon 'showier' aspects of security, such as the need to ensure that a nation's borders are protected from a military onslaught or terrorist attack. However, security must be conceptualized in a broader fashion to also include socio-economic equality and the right to feel safe and secure in one's person. The issue of food security and food distribution is an area of increasing concern in America and in the world at large. Food security affects the health of the nation and also the relative contentment of people and their belief in the ability to secure the American dream of social mobility. General issues of community health and hygiene are intimately related to food security, given that the concerns about access to safe…...

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References

Access to healthy affordable food. (2014). Public Health Law Center.

Retrieved from:

 http://publichealthlawcenter.org/topics/healthy-eating/access-healthy-affordable-food 

Food security in the U.S. (2014). USDA. Retrieved from:

Food Menu and Nutrition
Food Menu Overview

The objective of this study is to create two food menus as follows: (1) one healthy food menu; and (2) one unhealthy food menu, from a local fast food restaurant. Following the creation of these menus, this work will write a nutritional analysis of the meal created, discuss the reaction of the writer to this information and describe how this will affect the food choices of the writer in the future in terms of food choices from fast food restaurants.

The food choices that one makes when dining at fast food restaurants make a great difference in the amount of nutrition received from dining at fast food restaurants as well as the total calories that are consumed and the other factors that make foods either healthy or unhealthy for consumption. One might assume that dining at a fast food restaurant is in general unhealthy in nature…...

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McDonald's USA Nutrition Facts for Popular Menu Items (nd) Nutrition McDonalds. Retrieved from:  http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.pdf 

Nutrition Calculator (nd) McDonalds. Retrieved from:  http://www.mcdonalds.ca/ca/en/food/nutrition_calculator.html

Food Served in Public Schools
he school nutrition environment, consisting of school meals and competitive meals, has actually properly gotten terrific attention due to the fact that kids eat, usually, one-third of their everyday calorie consumption at school (Briefel et al., 2009).

Improving the dietary consumption of our country's kids is of crucial value given that one-third of school-age kids are obese or overweight (Ogden et al., 2010).

Paper's Scope and significant areas:.

his research will clarify Kid Nutrition Reauthorization from FRAC. he research addresses school meal quality and gain access to (Hartline-Grafton, 2010). Moreover, the present research concentrates on competitive meals, which are extensively readily available in schools, mostly exempt from federal nutrition criteria, and have an unfavourable influence on the wellness and health of all pupils, particularly pupils from low-income households.

Research Methods:.

he semi-structured type of interview is utilized in the research in addition to the standardized type, as these 2 kinds of…...

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Terry-McElrath, Y.M., O'Malley, P.M., Delva, J., & Johnston, L.D. (2009). The school food environment and student body mass index and food consumption: 2004 to 2007 national data. Journal of Adolescent Health, 45(3 Supplement), S45-S56.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and U.S. Department of Education. (2005). Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories. FNS-374. Available at:   Accessed April 20, 2013.http://www.fns.usda.gov/TN/Resources/makingithappen.html .

Wharton, C.M., Long, M., & Schwartz, M.B. (2008). Changing nutrition standards in schools: the emerging impact on school revenue. Journal of School Health, 78(5), 245-251.

Food, Technology and Class
The digestive divide:

Food, technology, and class and the changing eating habits of Americans and people around the globe

Much has been written about the 'digital divide,' or the fact that poorer people tend to have less access to cutting-edge technology and are thus disenfranchised from many educational, vocational, and personal opportunities for self-improvement. However, this digital divide is also seen in the different eating habits of the social classes, only in reverse. Today, wealthier people have access to simpler, healthier food that requires less technology to produce. Once upon a time, bitter greens like arugula and fish like salmon were the foods of the poor while the rich dined on heavily spiced meats and alcohol. Today, the equation has been reversed. Wealthy people can afford to eat organic produce and wild-caught fish. But walk into any disadvantaged neighborhood and you will find a bodega that is filled with…...

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References

Blatt, Harvey. (2008). America's food: What you don't know about what you eat.

Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2008.

Mintz, Stanley. (1986). Sweetness and power. Penguin.

Winne, Mark. (2008). Closing the food gap. Boston, MA, USA: Beacon Press.

Additional aid from social service agencies to facilitate a better diet and breast-feeding would be optimal in such instances. Yet for all women, simply having individuals around them who stress that the lifestyle changes are important can have a critical social facilitation effect. Prenatal care also can play a role in creating such an informed support network for the woman.
Above all, the woman must be motivated to change and aware of what changes are needed. Education, age, and other factors may act as enablers for the woman to appreciate the gravity of her situation, and to appreciate the long-term affects her health decisions can have upon her fetus and subsequent postnatal development. However, although "traditionally it has been felt that women who are better educated tended to make healthier lifestyle changes" according to one survey, physicians were the most influential in their decision-making processes regarding their pregnancy, and all…...

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Works Cited

Einarson, Adrienne & Gideon Koren. (2006, February). A survey of women's attitudes concerning healthy lifestyle changes during pregnancy. JFAS International 4:e2.

Retrieved February 12, 2009 at  http://www.motherisk.org/JFAS_documents/JFAS_6001_e2.pdf

Healthy Food for Healthy Living Lesson Plans
The theme I have selected for this lesson or class is healthy food for healthy living, which is an important topic given the increased in lifestyle diseases that are mainly brought by eating unhealthy foods. Generally, there are many things to learn from this theme, which culminates in promoting learning and development towards healthy eating. Through this lesson, children will learn which foods are healthy and which ones should be consumed in small quantities. Children will learn the food pyramid and obtain awareness regarding the need for every individual to consume nutritious food for healthy living (Krak & Schexnaildre, n.d.). This theme will be taught through creating lesson plans that include learning activities that are aligned with the curriculum and ensure all learning domains are taught.

My first activity for this theme is food group game. In addition to helping children learn about healthy food…...

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References

"Empowering Kids to Choose MyPlate Lesson Plan." (2011). USDA MyPlate. Retrieved August 4, 2015, from http://www.learningzonexpress.com/documents/EnergyEverydayforEveryone/MyPlateLessonPlans.pdf

"Healthy Eating Activities." (n.d.). Chapter 1. Retrieved August 4, 2015, from  http://supportunitedway.org/images/chapters/ch1.pdf 

Krak, J. & Schexnaildre, J. (n.d.). Healthy Food Makes Healthy Body. Retrieved August 4, 2015, from  http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit103/lesson3.html

Leaning does not only imply facts, but continual and fluid evolution of the brain. This is the identical process that the brain takes when improving itself and reducing aging. If the brain continues to receive stimuli and appropriate chemicals for energy, then it follows tat there will be increased brain function and activity. If the voltage, just as in a battery, becomes stronger, then activity increases. As the brain is continually stimulated, more building materials are produced that allow information to become part of our experience. Interestingly, the variety and frequency of certain exercise programs, in fact, "teach" the body at different rates. Using different intensities of movement, concerns of overeating, weight regulation, quality of life, and especially depression are mitigated (Douglas, 2009).
Finally, the healthcare and other market modifiers will need to change and evolve as the population ages. The global baby bust will change financial markets, investing, products,…...

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Aging Statistics. (2010, June 30). Retrieved from Administrator on Aging - U.S. Health & Human Services:  http://www.aoa.gov/aoaroot/aging_statistics/index.aspx 

Does Population Aging Affect Financial Markets? (2012). National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from:  http://www.nber.org/bah/winter05/w10851.html 

Dynamics of Population Aging in the Modern World. (2002, January). Retrieved from Longevity-Science.org:  http://longevity-science.org/Population_Aging.htm 

Family Caregivers: The Issues They Face Are Everyone's Concern. (2010). Capella University,

Food Choices in Australia Today
Consumers in many developed nations are experiencing a veritable epidemic of obesity, a trend that has been exacerbated both by an increasingly sedentary lifestyle as well as the types of foods that are consumed. Fast food and high fat content have also contributed to these trends, and the healthcare costs associated with treating obesity are enormous. Furthermore, unhealthy food choices during the formative years in early childhood can also result in a lifetime of weight-related problems, making the need to identify factors that influence food choices in a given setting a timely and important enterprise. To this end, this paper provides a discussion concerning three of the most important factors that have been identified by researchers as potentially influencing food choices in Australia households, which are food availability, individual preferences for flavor and taste and, increasingly, the environmentally responsible manner in which foods are produced.…...

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References

Bellisle, F. (2012, January 3). The determinants of food choice. EUFIC Review. Retrieved from  http://www.eufic.org/article/en/expid/review-food-choice/ .

Craig, L. (2005). The money or the care. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 40(4), 521-523.

Introduction. Contributors: Emma Costantino - author, Sian Supski - author. Journal Title: Journal of Australian Studies. Issue: 87. Publication Year: 2006. Page Number: 1+.

Grainger, C., Senauer, B. & Runge, C.F. (2007). Nutritional improvements and student food choices in a school lunch program. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 41(2), 265-267.

healthy Nutrition: A Chemistry View Point
Chemistry is a branch of sciences that deals with the compositions of matter and helps in identifying the substances that form matter. Living as well as non-living bodies are formed with substances. These substances differ in their composition, nature, properties, and reactions with other substances. There is a vital role of chemicals and chemistry in everyday life of human beings. The impacts of chemical substances on living beings can also be divided into direct and indirect categories. The impact of environmental substances is indirect in nature whereas direct impacts are chemical composition of food, nutrition, vitamins, and physical activity.

The following sections are focused on detailed review of relevance for chemistry and chemicals on healthy eating habits, nutrition, and vitamins. The significant role of physical activity and exercising is also elaborated in the sections below. There are significant benefits of healthy diet and exercise. However…...

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Papadopolus, K. (2008). Food Chemistry Research Developments. USA: Nova Science Publishers Inc.

Sladyk, K., & O'Sullivan, B. (2010). Occupation, activity, Skills, patterns, Demands, context, and Balance. Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence, 33.

Willett, W. (2012). Nutritional epidemiology (Vol. 40). USA: OUP.

Take trail mix... It is an energetic, "idealized" snack food. This comes primarily from the target populations the manufacturer focuses it is marketing. Other channels for influence include consumers looking for "quick" fixes, such as families looking for fast and fun food. It would be interesting to explore the link marketing of "fast" snack products such as this have on families with young children, and compare this with the influence the product had on the political and behavioral habits and beliefs of the college students consuming it.
Lastly, symbolic systems help us better understand how products are systematically introduced and marketed to consumers. This helps shapes attitudes and beliefs. Also important to note however, as learned in class, is whether societies tend to accept or reject certain items even if marketed well. For example, oark (2007) noted that in many cultures certain foods or animals are taboo. Consider for a…...

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Chex Mix Peanut Lovers" Taquitos.Net (2007), Reviewed 7, June, 2007:

 http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=1759 .

Coen Flynn, Karen. Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City, New York,

NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.

1. A diet or lifestyle related disease is one that is brought about specifically because of the type of diet the person has or the lifestyle he or she chooses to live. 2. Obesity causes many health issues. The most common are sleep apnea, type II diabetes, and heart disease. 3. Obesity is linked to both diet and lifestyle. Someone who overeats and also does not exercise can become obese over time. 4. In society, obesity causes higher health care costs, "fat shaming," and discomfort for many people because of a lack of ability to accommodate larger-sized people (think airplane and bus seats,....

Since we do not know what you have put in your first page, it is a little difficult to tell you where to start on your second page.  What we are going to do is go over some of the negative effects of gentrification and give you some links to find more information about those negative effects.  Hopefully, this will help you get over your writer’s block and get past page two.

At first glance, gentrification may seem like a positive.  After all, gentrification means an upward trend economically for a historically economically disadvantaged neighborhood.  However, long-term residents....

Essay Topics on the Recent Childhood Obesity Epidemic

Introduction:

In recent years, childhood obesity has emerged as a significant public health concern, affecting millions of children worldwide. The epidemic has far-reaching implications for both the physical and mental well-being of our children. This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the current childhood obesity epidemic, exploring its causes, consequences, and potential solutions.

Causes of Childhood Obesity:

Dietary Factors: The consumption of processed foods, sugary drinks, and unhealthy fats contributes significantly to childhood obesity.
Sedentary Lifestyle: Lack of physical activity and increased screen time have led to decreased energy expenditure and increased calorie intake.
Genetic....

I. Introduction
A. Thesis Statement: Inequalities in mortality linked to common physical health problems are a pressing issue that requires urgent attention.
B. Background Information on Mortality and Common Physical Health Problems
C. Importance of Addressing Health Inequalities

II. Health Inequalities and Common Physical Health Problems
A. Social Determinants and Health Outcomes
1. Income and Poverty
2. Education and Literacy
3. Access to Healthcare Services
B. Impact of Health Inequalities on Mortality
1. Cardiovascular Disease
2. Cancer
3. Respiratory Disease
4. Diabetes

III. Understanding the Mechanisms of Health Inequalities
A. Socioeconomic Factors
1. Lack of Access to Healthy Food and Physical Activity
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