Bittmans major claim is that the schools need to give healthier food because weight related issues are rising
He uses some research from some credible people and he does some of his own researching I think the things he says is pretty credible
Activity 10
The weight of America is really getting out of hand, but What is the problem? Our country is being “drip-fed” , cheap and unhealthy fast food . Healthy food seems to be just out of our price range. My proposal for this situation here at California High School is simple. In a recent survey 78% of the student population said that if a healthy snack was available at nutrition break, they would in fact eat it. Our school already provides a healthy lunch, so why not make it available ? What about nutrition break? There is no healthy alternative. Kids go straight to the vending machine for a snack. The school gets money to feed its students,so Investing some of that money in healthy snacks would have a positive impact on our campus. It would increase positive attitudes,increase overall morale,and would make school a better place to be.
Activity 7 1 THIS new era of government bailouts and widespread concern
over wasteful spending offers an opportunity to take a hard look
at the National School Lunch Program. Launched in 1946 as a
public safety net, it has turned out to be a poor investment. It
should be redesigned to make our children healthier.
Content and Purpose: The National School Lunch Program is a failure and should be reformed to improve children’s health. The purpose is to make a recommendation for how to improve children’s health.
2 Under the program, the United States Department of Agriculture
gives public schools cash for every meal they serve—$2.57 for a
free lunch, $2.17 for a reduced-price lunch and 24 cents for a paid
lunch. In 2007, the program cost around $9 billion, a figure widely
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acknowledged as inadequate to cover food costs. But what most people don’t realize is that very little of this money even goes toward food. Schools have to use it to pay for everything from custodial services to heating in the cafeteria.
3 On top of these reimbursements, schools are entitled to receive
commodity foods that are valued at a little over 20 cents per
meal. The long list of options includes high-fat, low-grade meats and cheeses and processed foods like chicken nuggets and
pizza. Many of the items selected are ready to be thawed, heated or just unwrapped—a necessity for schools without kitchens.
Schools also get periodic, additional “bonus” commodities from the U.S.D.A., which pays good money for what are essentially
4 When school districts allow fast-food snacks in the lunchroom
they provoke widespread ire, and rightfully so. But food distributed by the National School Lunch Program contains some of the same ingredients found in fast food, and the resulting meals routinely fail to meet basic nutritional standards. Yet this is how the government continues to “help” feed millions of American schoolchildren, a great many of them from low-income households.
Content and Purpose: content of this section is that the schools get 20 cents per meal and that can only afford bad grade meat, also the lunchrooms provide u healthy snacks purpose is to show what weeee doing wrong
5 Some Americans are demanding better. Parent advocacy groups
like Better School Food have rejected the National School Lunch
Program and have turned instead to local farmers for fresh
alternatives. Amid steep budgetary challenges, these community-
supported coalitions are demonstrating that schools can be
the masters of their own menus. Schools here in Berkeley, for
example, continue to use U.S.D.A. commodities, but cook food
from scratch and have added organic fruits and vegetables
from area farms. They have cut costs by adopting more efficient
accounting software and smart-bulk policies (like choosing milk
dispensers over individual cartons), and by working with farmers
to identify crops that they can grow in volume and sell for
6 Many nutrition experts believe that it is possible to fix the
National School Lunch Program by throwing a little more
money at it. But without healthy food (and cooks and kitchens
to prepare it), increased financing will only create a larger junk-
food distribution system. We need to scrap the current system
and start from scratch. Washington needs to give schools enough
money to cook and serve unprocessed foods that are produced
without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. When possible, these
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Content and purpose many people believe throwing more money to the system would make it better but it doesn't we have to get different foods and schools need to take action purpose to show what we can change.
7 How much would it cost to feed 30 million American
schoolchildren a wholesome meal? It could be done for about
$5 per child, or roughly $27 billion a year, plus a one-time
investment in real kitchens. Yes, that sounds expensive. But a
healthy school lunch program would bring long-term savings. We need around 5 dollars per child and adequate kitchens which is
and benefits in the areas of hunger, children’s health and dietary. Expensive. The government needs to find different programs to get
habits, food safety (contaminated peanuts have recently found. Healthy foods for kids. Department of education should also
their way into school lunches), environmental preservation and. Take action to teach student how to have good food choices.
8 The Agriculture Department will have to do its part, by making
good on its fledgling commitment to back environmentally
sound farming practices and by realizing a separate program to
deliver food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, from farms
to schools. It will also need to provide adequate support for
kitchens and healthy meal planning. Congress has an opportunity
to accomplish some of these goals when it takes up the Child
Nutrition and Women Infants and Children Reauthorization Act,
9 But the Department of Education should take some initiative, too.
After all, eating well requires education. We can teach students
to choose good food and to understand how their choices affect
their health and the environment. The new school lunch program
should be partly financed by the Department of Education, and
Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, should oversee it. Vice
President Joseph Biden should also come to the table by making
school lunch a priority of his White House Task Force on Middle
Content and purpose- we should spend around 5 dollars per child and we need to invest into he kitchens of schools but schools need to educate children how to eat good purpose show the changes
good, free lunch. MODULE: STUDENT VERSION
10 Every public school child in America deserves a healthful and
delicious lunch that is prepared with fresh ingredients. Cash-
strapped parents should be able to rely on the government
to contribute to their children’s physical well-being, not to the
continued spread of youth obesity, Type 2 diabetes and other
diet-related problems. Let’s prove that there is such a thing as a
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Alice Waters is the president of The Chez Panisse Foundation. Katrina Heron is a director of the foundation and a co-producer of civileats.com.
CONTENT AND PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE: the article says that we have many issues in the way the government and schools decide what foods to provide for kids, also the foods they chose are very unhealthy. Some people say we need more money, If you throw more money into the system more junk food will be ordered each is unhealthy. This gives examples of schools that have changed what they eat like fresh grown food locally. It also says the schools and government should make this a priority and change the lunch program to have healthy foods at school.
2 questions
Paragraph- I cant answer this question because I don't eat lunch at school. I come to school and leave after 5th period so that way I could get my lunch at home. Occasionally it I, really hungry
Drawing Conclusions from Structure • How are the authors’ arguments ordered? (Which arguments
come first, in the middle, last?) What is the effect of this on the
reader? • How has the structure of the text helped make the argument
2- schools get more money for giving lunches wear her it be paid lunch or anything, the money is not spent on food it's spent on other things
3-many if the foods that are given to the schools are processed and easy to serve
4- the food is being produced has low grade meet like fast food restaurants and that's not healthy.
5-some schools have rejected what the fiver meant is giving and instead they have started buying from local farmers.
6-some people think that if we gave more money it would fix the problem but more money would make it worse.
7-not only do the schools need new way to get food but they also need assistance with how to keep it fresh
8- this article claims that schools should educate students on how to eat healthy
Key words: subvert (2); culpable (5); laden (6); crave (11); push
factors (13); obesogenic (13); interventions (16); controversial (24)
1. A supersize cheeseburger is __controversial ______ with enough calories for a
2. The television industry is controversial for allowing ads for sugared
3. I try not to eat obeseogenic foods because I know they make me
4. A fast food restaurant on every corner is a push that
encourages people to eat more calories than they use.
5. In the middle of the afternoon, I crave a bag of chips and a
6. Encouraging farmers’ markets is an interventions that helps people eat
7. Junk food is so tasty that it subvert our efforts to eat less of it.
8. Taxing junk food is culpable because many people think they
should have the right to eat unhealthy food if they choose to.
Activity 12
Mark Bittmans journalistic article, Bad food? Tax it, and subsidize vegetable; published (July 23 2011) delivers a message about bad food that says we should tax bad foods. Bittman says the company's are only looking for profit and not public health, and if we tax the bad foods we could raise money and convince some Americans to not eat so bad. Bittmans is gearing this article towards Americans
What does SAD mean? Why does Bittman put this sentence in
He uses it parenthesis because he could be using a better word, sad means down not happy
2. “Rather than subsidizing the production of unhealthful food, we
should turn the tables and tax things like soda . . .”(par. 5).
What does “turn the tables” mean? Why does Bittman use this
Do something different, he did it because what we're doing isn't right we need something else.
3. “We could sell these staples cheap—let’s say for 50 cents a
Why does Bittman say “let’s say for 50 cents a pound?” Why
He's just estimating or guessing I'm not sure why it's with dashes
4. “Though it would take a level of political will that’s rarely seen,
What does “it’s hardly a moonshot” mean? Why does Bittman
It's hardly a moonshot means it's hard but it's not super hard
5. “To counter arguments about their nutritional worthlessness,
expect to see ‘fortified’ sodas . . . and ‘improved’ junk foods.”
Why does Bittman put quotation marks around “fortified” and
“improved”? What is the tone of this sentence? (par. 24)
He is saying that they aren't improved or fortified just portrait that way
6. “First off, we’ll have to listen to nanny-state arguments. . .” (par.
Why does Bittman use “we” in this sentence? How could you
rewrite this sentence to make it sound more formal?
Activity 1
What it takes to change your eating habits is to see the effect of what it does to your body. Sure the unhealthy food tastes better but the healthy food will make you live longer, and people individually need to know what they want in life to eat unhealthy good tasting foods or to strive for better things. I really think people individually need to make that choice and if they don't it doesn't matter.
Efforts to reducesmoking showthat it’s almostimpossible to getpeople to changehabits. | True | True | 4 | I was right it is down to 20 percent |
Taxing unhealthyfood would bean inexpensiveway to improveAmerican health. | False | true | 19 | Because it's only a 10 percent tax |
Offering healthylunches at schoolmeans kids aremore likely to eathealthy food athome. | False | True paragraph | 9 | Because when he was young his diet was different |
Anticipation Guide: “Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by FirstFiguring Out Its Cause” |
Americans nowneed far fewercalories to behealthy thanpeople did in the1800s. | True | I got it right it makes essence |
Since the 1970s,the food industryhas made it easierto eat a healthydiet. | True | False | 18 | I didn't think about the food |
Efforts to reducesmoking showthat it’s almostimpossible to getpeople to changehabits. | False | False | 16 | Through banning advertisement |
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