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Does School Lunches / Canteens cause child obesity?

Generally food served in school canteen is oily and junk food. Schools generally lease out contract for canteen to outside parties whose sole aim is to generate profit under all circumstances. So to generate more profit, these canteen owners degrade the quality of the food and serve junk food to students.  Eating fatty or oily food increases the cholesterol content and fat gets accumulated in the arteries. As a result, there is pressure on heart since it has to apply a greater force for pumping the blood. Schools should give attention to what the canteen serves the students. Some schools provide lunch to students. They should see to it that they should include a nutritional diet for the students.. So there is high probability that child obesity can be caused by inappropriate school lunches.

How to find the reason for Child obesity?

If your child is taking a healthy diet at home and still suffering from obesity, you have to think of various reasons. One of the reasons may be the food, which the children get in school lunches. Most the schools post menus on their website or send a monthly menu to parents. Parents should go through the menu card and see through the nutritional content of the lunch. Mostly the school provides all these information to the parents and even takes feedback from them. If the school does not readily offer this information to parents, they should request the school for the copy of nutritional content in the lunch. If some of the food items are unhealthy, you can point it out to the school authorities. If the nutritional content of the lunch is good, you can encourage your child to go for it.

Sometimes schools offer some unhealthy alternatives along with the school lunch. These unhealthy alternatives include pizza, popcorn, burgers which are tasty but low on nutrition value. Children have a tendency to get attracted to such junk food and then neglect food with good nutritional value. Hence children should be encouraged to go for fruits and vegetables instead of junk food like burger, pizza, popcorn etc. Also one major problem is that there are many snack vending machines in schools. So students can always avail of these vending machines and there cannot be any check on this snack food, which they eat.

If you think that the school lunches cause obesity problems in your child, you should bring it to the notice of the management of the school. Discussion over the nutritional content of food should me made with teachers. If the school is not responding to your problems and not willing to change the food menu, you can rally up with other parents. May be, a group of parents can always get their requests approved from the management. Also the school authorities should monitor the quality and menu of food offered in the canteen.

Summary: Eating fatty or oily food increases the cholesterol content and fat gets accumulated in the arteries. As a result, there is pressure on heart since it has to apply a greater force for pumping the blood. Schools should give attention to what the canteen serves the students. Some schools provide lunch to students. If you think that the school lunches cause obesity problems in your child, you should bring it to the notice of the management of the school. Discussion over the nutritional content of food should me made with teachers.