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Counting Calories in the School Cafeteria
Carl Albert State College
May 8, 2015
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Outline
I: Intro
A: Childhood Obesity
1. Should the government try to control it through school lunches?
2. Will one meal make a difference
B: Kids and counting calories
1. Make it and they will come—- Not
2. Hungry kids are angry kids
II: Back ground
A: Obesity in America
1. Percentages
2. Increase
B: Consequences of obesity
1. Cost
2. Death toll
III Offence
A: Change is not always good
1. Lunch may be healthy but not eaten
2. Been in effect for two years with no change
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B: Kids getting food elsewhere
1. If not at school where
2. After school snacks or full meals
C: ”Man cannot live on bread alone”
1. One meal cannot sustain
2. Hard to learn when hungry
IV Defense
A: New school guidelines
1. Calories per meal allowed by government
2. Calories needed per meal
B: Calorie police
1. Get fit America
2. One meal doesn’t make a diet.
V: Conclusion
A: Government control of obesity
1. Should not be involved to great extent
2. One does of food does not have much effect.
B: Calorie counting kids
1. If it doesn’t taste good they won’t eat
2. Have you ever seen a full, angry kid?
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Abstract
This paper covers the federal government trying to control the obesity problem in America by
limiting calorie intake of school lunches. Everyone does not fit into the same nutritional needs.
The common idea that is shared by the students and teachers is that a students cannot learn or
achieve a high academic success while being hungry. Most of my information on the topic is on
the Joe E White Library’s website EBSCOhost. Also I found on CBS News an article that was
written on schools opting out of the healthy foods being offered in their cafeteria. You would
