Do you know what your child eats for lunch?

With the child obesity rate being what it is, parents need to encourage their children to eat more nutritional meals. Fifty percent of children between the ages of 2 and 15 have fatty streaks in their arteries. That is the beginning of heart disease along with adult diabetes, which are now becoming an epidemic. The obesity problem is something that needs to be addressed now, not later.

The majority of middle school students (grades 6 – 8) are eating “junk food” for lunch. Most parents send their child to with $2.00 for lunch. Some students will have four bags of chips or something along that line for lunch, not the lunch being offered. I would like to encourage parents to ask their child what they had for lunch today or they may call me and I can give them a report on everything their child has purchased since September. I would like to ask parents for their help in encouraging their child to purchase the well-balanced lunch instead of the “junk food”, in consideration of our children’s health.

Shelia Lowe

Cafeteria Manager

229-5171