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What’s for Lunch? Chicken strips, French Fries, pizza or cheese burgers. The ideal lunch for the average teenager nowadays. The biggest sought after lunch in America. In today’s public school the kids are hungry after food that may look good but not always good for them. How do you separate what they should and should not eat when the access to greasy and sugary food is so effortless. Back in 2006 I remember my high school change their wellness policy. I went from having good homemade chicken strip and fries everyday to baked chicken and sunchips. Having such a drastic transformation taken place in school I found it hard to even eat anything at school or concentrate in class. In this article a public school in Connecticut has choose to do some restoration with their nutrition policy. Instead of just doing away with their policy and old recipes they have decided to bring in a full time executive director of food services for the New Haven public schools. Timothy Cipriano has agreed to come in and shake up their menu and make it more nutritious for the students as well as fun to eat. In the article Cipriano has taken the foods kids like to eat and transformed them into nutritious diet friendly entrees. By doing so he has enhance the kid’s health with his new and improved wellness strategy.

I like this article because I was in a similar situation myself back in high school. My sophomore year the board of administrators told the schools that we were getting to fat. That this district obesity level was way out of hand and they were going to make a change. Of course we as students didn’t find out about this until weeks later when we went to lunch and found that the menu had change. There wasn’t anymore fried chicken and “good” pizza on the bar like the week before. The whole menu had transformed to be an old diabetic persons meal plan. As weeks passed I found that the new policy the was actually ok. The food wasn’t that bad. I felt more confident in my appearance. (Due to the lost of a few pounds)I just felt a lot better as a person. I hope that these students fell the same joy I felt with my schools wellness plan. Hopefully they take this change and commit to it. Eating healthy may not be fun all the time but the results are well worth it.