Sentences with phrase «school lunch period»

In a finding that's both obvious and depressing, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that kids with too - short school lunch periods consume significantly less of their entrée, milk, and vegetables as compared with students who have more time to eat.

-LSB-...] No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire -LSB-...]

A recent time to eat study, «Impact of School Lunch Period Length on Meal Consumption», found that compared with students who had a least 25 minutes to eat their meal, students with fewer than 20 minutes to eat were significantly less likely to select a fruit (44 % vs. 57 %).

Kansas City, Mo. (Reuters)- Middle school lunch periods can be a free - for - all of teasing, rough - housing and flirting among boys and girls trying to impress or intimidate.

So what, we force the children to eat «healthy foods» during school lunch periods, which if they aren't taught why and how to eat more healthily they will surely not eat at all, then go home stuff their faces with extra fat, sugar and salt because they didn't eat at school.

Many people commenting on my recent school food opinion piece in the New York Times pointed to another factor which may hinder children's acceptance of school meals - extremely short school lunch periods.

I also considered the fact that higher - risk foods like carrot sticks, hot dogs and grapes are commonly found in kids» lunches, and that, thanks to No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire meal.

By expanding the school lunch period, schools would have to address these concerns.

Many people commenting on my recent school food opinion piece in the New York Times pointed to another factor which may hinder children's acceptance of school meals — extremely short school lunch periods.

For example, the district - wide food service director can not make decisions about the length of the school lunch period.

Try bringing a whole case of that snack to the school lunch period and hand out free samples of it.

At schools throughout the region and the nation, space and schedule crunches are pushing some school lunch periods far from midday.