Academic schools are falling behind in helping students to gain a proper nutrition habits. The government’s nutrition standards are making school to have two options, either school goes into debt by providing healthy food all the times or allowing unhealthy options that can provide some revenue to the school. (Bornstein). American government should involve more in funding in regulating school lunch.
In 1946, National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was established to help students get a nutritious course meal that is affordable. Donald Schumacher, M.D. said "Schools lose money every day because it cost more money to prepare meals than the reimbursement they get from the federal government." (Bornstein) Schools are not allowed to sell food that
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Japan’s lunches are food that can be food as home. Their lunches are made from scratch and rarely frozen. Japanese are heavy on rice, vegetables and fish. Japanese students lunches are served in their classroom. All students get served the same course of meal. Students are not allowed to bring food from home if they are in elementary or middle school, only the high school students can. At Japanese school campus there is no vending machines, only the food that is being served at the cafeteria. Schools persuade students to eat what they have on their plates. The Japanese government pays for the cost to make, prepare and labor for school lunches, and parents pays a monthly bill to pay for their students meal, which is three dollars per meal.
Another country that America can put their eyes on is on France school lunches. In France school lunch, students are allowed to go home to eat lunch but they cannot bring home food to school, or French students can eat lunches provided at school. The period for their lunch is no less then thirty minutes, typically their lunch period is one hour and thirty minute to two hours. However their school ends around 4:30 P.M. French students pays about three dollars with sixty cents for elementary school and four dollars and forty cents for middle school