National School Lunch Program

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National School Lunch Program

• Meals served in the National School Lunch Program
  (NSLP) should be nutritious and well- balanced.
• The meal patterns required by the NSLP provide
  children with approximately one-third of the
  nutrients they need according to the Recommended
  Dietary Allowances.
• In any one meal service, the objective is to
  provide one meal to each child.

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National School Lunch Program

• A school lunch consists of five food items from
  four food component groups.
• The food components are
• 1) meat/ meat alternative
• 2) bread/ bread alternative
• 3) vegetable/ fruit
• 4) fluid milk

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Fast Food Kids Meals
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Super Size Me

• Morgan Spurlock subjected himself to a diet based
  only in McDonald's fast food three times a day
  for thirty days and without working out. His
  objective was to prove why most of the Americans
  are so fat, with many cases of obesity. He began
  the shootings submitting himself to a complete
  check-up with three doctors, and along the weeks,
  he compared his weight and results of exams,
  coming through a scary conclusion. He health was
  failing.

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Parent Teacher Involvement

• Give students a homework assignment that involves
  parents.
• -labels on foods in their homes.
• -scavenger hunt with their parents in a grocery
  store for foods that are nutritious
• Have children involve their family members in
  setting a physical activity goal (or child and
  parent might have somewhat different goals but
  both give support to one another to accomplish)
  such as planning to walk XX minutes on XX days,
  or turning the TV off during meals and eating
  together XX days.
• Have students create teams with their parents and
  have class competitions to see which teams reach
  goals they set for themselves related to healthy
  lifestyles (might be fruit/vegetable intake,
  physical activity).
• Send newsletters, fact sheets, letters and/or
  recipes home to parents.
• Put a sticker on children that says I tried it!
  or Ask me and encourage them to show it to
  their parents and explain what the sticker means
  when asked.