As a result; the Ontario government introduced the "PPM 150: School Food and Beverage Policy," on September 1st, 2011 in order change the nutritional standards of students from as early as elementary school to secondary school (Ontario Ministry of Education). ... The Nature and Guidelines of the Policy As a provincial effort to offer nutritional standards, the Ontario School and Beverage Policy, seeks to influence positive lifestyle changes for all public-school students. ... Moreover, in addition to taste preferences, students seek other alternatives to the nutritional standards of ...

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Being a Dietetics student, I am extremely aware of the importance of nutritious school meal programs because children spend most of their habit-forming years in school. ... In more recent studies, alternative methods were looked at for school meal programs to increase participation while still meeting the necessary guidelines. ... The fact that schools offer this reduced or free program can also increase school meal participation. ... I find it important that by simply eating balanced school meals, academic behavior increases, and that all schools should take this into consideration. ... I...

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High fructose corn syrup is found in all fast foods and is a much cheaper and dangerous alternative to cane sugar. ... Wagner claims, "This new generation of school aged children is the first expected not to outlive their parents" (Wagner 2). ... Schlosser believes, ""Fast food is really moving into schools, which is horrible, because eating habits are formed when you're young, so if you get fat then, you've started a lifelong battle" (Good Morning America). The food in schools is less than nutritious due to a budget schools must stick to; again, with a higher d...

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Video games have infested our community which will keep not only children, but junior high, High school, and college students from wanting to be part of a wellness program. ... What Move Your Feet will provide to people who are not satisfied with results is alternative health solutions. Since these alternative health solutions will be different for each individual, there can be no standard warranty. ...

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Childhood Obesity has become an epidemic in America. Although it seems that the main concern with obesity is about external appearances, the true problem lies with the health problems associated with it. According to the CDC, obesity can lead to heart disease, type II diabetes, high blood pressure...

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Food can bring people together at work, school, home, or even church. ... Some say that eating healthy is too expensive, but what is not realized is that there are many cheap and still healthy alternatives to most healthy foods, such as, growing your own vegetables, or buying an off brand of healthy food. ...

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The health dangers of obesity greatly effect the younger generation, this is because kids get up to 40 percent of their meals from fast food chains and there are now fast food franchises in 13 percent of the nation's schools (Murphy). ... There are rarely any healthier alternatives. ...

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He discusses this problem strongly, because it is hard for people to find alternative food options. ... They can start with going to their mayor and ask to improve school lunches and press the government improvements such as sidewalks and bike lanes. ...

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b) Colleges and Universities: Greek town has about five major post secondary schools within walking distance or a short ride on the subway from Chester Street and a yearly population of about 30,000. There are many highs schools, again within walking distance of the bistro. ... Krinos Fodds services many of the post-secondary schools in the general area, but students still eat at eat five times a week. ... Joo-Joo's Trojan Horse Bistro will focus on a healthy menu, given that most of the competition offer at least one healthy dish, seen as alternatives to the main menu. ...

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The epidemic of childhood obesity is rapidly rising in America. The number of children who are now overweight has tripled since 1980 and the prevalence of obesity in younger children has more than doubled. Overall, approximately 17% or 12.5 million of the children in the United States between the ag...

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It seemed to me that the older I get, the more obsessed people seemed about their bodies. Whether it was the diet soda boom of the 80's, or the fact everyone has always been unhappy with his or her natural bodies; it just took me a while to comprehend. It always seemed like there were diets here, diets there, these drugs can do this, or these herbs can do, that I just tell myself "Stop the insanity!" Anorexia is believed to be primarily an illness of the mind or illness of psychological origin, however it has significant medical and physical consequences. This paper is going to discuss an...

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