Teen Nutrition

Teen nutrition in America has changed drastically since 1946. Some of the
things that have caused this change are the initiation of a school lunch
program, sedentary lifestyles, and changes in the type of food that people eat.
This has resulted in obesity, type II diabetes at an earlier age, and eating
disorders.
The nation’s school lunch program was issued in 1946. It opened in order for
schools to “improve the nutritional health of the nation’s children” (American
Kids: Diet of Danger). It is said that the lunch program feeds about 27 million
kids and over 94,000 schools every year. Right after the lunch program started,
people were eating healthier, but this didn’t last long. After about two years,
the lunch program began to decline in how healthy it was. Nowadays, schools
serve salty snacks and fatty foods. One of the reasons that schools serve these
kinds of food is because “schools get high fat foods for free or little amounts
of money, but for th...