Reflecting back on my previous posts, I felt that my semester long research was productive even though I had troubles searching for recent news about schools having healthier lunch. I also find it interesting because there were so much factors that contributed for students having a better lunch in school. My topic has evolved little by little as I wanted to focus about childhood obesity and now I’m more focusing about childhood hunger and not wanting students to throw away their foods.
To review my progress, I went back to my first post of the semester and then my most recent post which was about the PSA poster. Comparing the both articles I was able to distinguish that on my first post I wanted to covey to my readers that having a healthier lunch in school will decrease childhood obesity. While on my most recent post, I focused that the healthier school lunch should not go to waste because they are many children that are suffering from childhood hunger. I realized that with my general topic (healthier school lunches), I was able to research more specific topics that connects with my general topic which was why my topic has evolved over this past semester.
I think I began to evolve my topic when I was researching about the factors that is making students not to eat their school lunch. I began to see that students are not eating enough because they don’t have enough time to eat during their lunch periods, some students prefer a packed lunch that their parents made them or they are simply they don’t want to eat the lunches because it contains fruits and vegetables. With this, I was able to see there are many factors that affect school lunches in a negative way. Nevertheless, I continued to research more and to show how important school lunches are as it affects many people in a positive way like children in low income families who can’t afford heathier food or a student who depends on school lunches as their meal for the whole day. Overall, with the negatives and positives factor that I was able to get in my research I was able to see how complex my topic is.
One factor that didn’t change is position to have healthy lunches for the students in schools. As a supporter, I always try to incorporate in my posts how important for students to have a healthy lunch while they are in school. I want my readers to know about the importance of children having a better diet through their school lunches. I also wanted my audience to know that having a school lunch is important factor to a student as they need to refuel their body and brains when they are at school.
I encourage readers to research more on what students are eating in school or the policies that government implemented like the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act. Readers can always try to find in the internet sources that talks about the school lunches. I would recommend the USDA website because they have simple facts what the Act is about and how lunches are served. Some information that the website indicates, “Students have grown to like the healthier school meals. According to a recent survey by Robert Wood Johnson, respondents at 70 percent of elementary schools reported that students liked the new lunches. Across all grade levels, while there were initial complaints in the fall of 2012, by the end of the year the majority of the kids liked the healthier meals” this is kind of information can inform readers that the government is monitoring schools to have better meals and the system actually works.
Healthier School Lunches 