Longer Lunch Shifts

Longer Lunch shifts

                                                By: Abbi Danner

Lunch time is what a lot of students look forward to throughout their day they want to munch on the food they brought or bought. Also tons of students use lunch time to talk to their Bffs and ask about how their day is going and if the volleyball team had won the night before, or a T.V. show they all watch. The lunch shift teachers to tell us to use the restroom and whatever we need to do during the 20 minutes we get to eat our lunches.

20 minutes seems like a whole lot but really it is not. If you are the first dismissed to go line up you are fortunate because you’ll most likely to have the most time to eat and visit. But if you’re the last couple of tables to be dismissed to go through the lunch line you only get less than 7 minutes to eat and if it’s a Wednesday lunch is cut short by just a few precious minutes.

“The rush and stress of today's typical lifestyle might have you downing a meal one minute and heading to a meeting or class the next. If you are eating too fast, however, you might not be giving your brain time to catch up with your body, and the result could be that you eat more than you actually are hungry for. Eating too quickly can cause you to overeat in an effort to quell you appetite. This can cause you to feel too full or uncomfortable after eating quickly. Additionally, eating too fast causes you to take in more calories than you need.” The website http://www.livestrong.com states. It is harder for our digestive system to function properly, resulting in poor digestion, including indigestion and heartburn.

To prevent all of those effects we should have longer lunch shifts, but there are some problems like, extending our day, and taking away learning time and etc. I also have some solutions such as decreasing our passing times by 1 minute and adding another lunch line to give us more time to eat. I really hope people consider this option; they are always trying to make things healthier for us students to eat during school.

To make things healthier we need to improve this problem of not having enough time to eat at a correct pace, so I hope that people consider this as an option. Thanks.