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VOLUME 51 ISSUE 1 1015 Division St. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613
Healthy Kids Act brings changes to lunch room, school
obesity rate for adults is 27.6 percent and 11.2 Staff Writer percent for children ages ten through seventeen. A speThe Cedar Falls School cific study on highschoolers District is striving to keep showed that twelve percent up with the latest state are obese and law, which 15.8 percent addresses new are overdaily health weight. needs for The HKA students and addresses all officials. The foods sold to students in Healthy Kids the school disAct (HKA) trict, includwas passed and ing anything went into affrom fund fect July 1. Its . goals are to de- —Food Supervisor raising, bake sales, vending velop healthy LaVonne Arndt machines and eating habits classroom and promote projects, to ala carte snacks. active lifestyles for all stuAthletic Director Troy dents. Health and Becker put it like this, “If nutrition is a real and growit’s something the school ing concern in the country offers, it needs to fall under right now. The numbers of obese and overweight adults the HKA rules.” There is no funding have been growing steadily since 1991. Currently Iowa’s coming in from the HKA,
Maya Amjadi
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something the school offers, it needs to fall under the HKA rules
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but the USDA funding for school meals increased by about 4 cents per meal this year, according to Food Service Supervisor LaVonne Arndt. Foods offered must meet nutritional standards for calories, sodium, fat, and sugar. Also, 50 percent of all grains offered must be whole grains. “Students may notice the absence of some of the more sugary favorites or smaller portion sizes of foods like cookie bars,” Arndt said. “[Also] beverages with carbonation are not allowed. This includes the 100 percent juices with some small amount of carbonation.” And that’s not all. In coming years the amount of sodium and fat in foods offered will have to decrease even further. The HKA has plans to keep cutting down Continued page 2
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The Healthy Kids Act that recently went into effect has brought many changes to lunches like those of sophomores Holly Youngblood and Makaela Burke.
What do you think about the Florida pastor’s plans to burn the Quran?
The possible burning of the Quran by Terry Jones has recieved international media attention over the last week. Although it did not occur on this Sept. 11 as he had planned, he has suggested that it might happen at a later date. We asked students and teachers about thier opinions on the issue.
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We always say that we’re a country of great acceptance and freedom. Yes, we have those freedoms to state what we believe and think, Michellle but only if we’re not Rathe not hurting someTeacher one else; that is the difference between freedom and a hate crime.
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Many people are concerned that the burning of the Qurans will have serious repercussions for America, but what makes you think Sarah that erecting a Mosque Wallingford at Ground Zero won’t Senior also have repercussions?
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Muhammad Shehata Senior
It would just cause more problems. There’s no point; it’s not going to solve anything, and for extremists it just gives them more of a reason to do what they do.
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