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Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News"Chocolate milk has been unfairly pegged as one of the causes of obesity," said Julie Buric, vice president of marketing for the Milk Processors Education Program.
Others note the nation's child obesity epidemic and say flavored milk simply needs to go.
Eight ounces of white milk served in Los Angeles public schools contains 14 grams of natural sugar or lactose; fat-free chocolate milk has an extra six grams of sugar for a total of 20 grams, while fat-free strawberry milk has a total of 27 grams — the same as eight ounces of Coca-Cola.
"Chocolate milk is soda in drag," said Ann Cooper, director of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District in Louisville, Colo., which has banned flavored milk. "It works as a treat in homes, but it doesn't belong in schools."
Flavored milk is also a target of British TV chef Jamie Oliver, who has made revamping school food a signature cause.
For a segment to be aired on his "Food Revolution" TV show, he recently filled a school bus with white sand to represent the amount of sugar Los Angeles Unified school children consume weekly in flavored milk.
"If you have flavored milk, that's candy," he told The Associated Press.
Oliver cheered Deasy's proposal to remove flavored milk from schools during a recent joint appearance on the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show.
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News
Let's see, recesses are being shortened, high activity games are either banned or heavily structured for fear of "lawsuits" cause kids might "get hurt".
It's not what you eat, it's what you do. The more parents abdicate their responsibilities of raising their kids to the Gov't, the more problems we keep having.
Amazingly the answer seems to be "more control"! It's like the world has entered a dark time of stupid.
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News
Let's see, recesses are being shortened, high activity games are either banned or heavily structured for fear of "lawsuits" cause kids might "get hurt".
It's not what you eat, it's what you do. The more parents abdicate their responsibilities of raising their kids to the Gov't, the more problems we keep having.
Amazingly the answer seems to be "more control"! It's like the world has entered a dark time of stupid.
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News
Let's see, recesses are being shortened, high activity games are either banned or heavily structured for fear of "lawsuits" cause kids might "get hurt".
It's not what you eat, it's what you do. The more parents abdicate their responsibilities of raising their kids to the Gov't, the more problems we keep having.
Amazingly the answer seems to be "more control"! It's like the world has entered a dark time of stupid.
The Liberals think everyone else is stupid and incapable of taking care of their own children or themselves for that matter.
Liberals want to control everything you do or keep you doing anything they say is not in the best interest of the State.
We have all been sitting on common sense allowing the wackos to run a muck for the past 60 years.
Today you can't even correct your children's bad behavior with what we know has worked since the beginning of time, or we face jail time.
It's time to rise up and kick the Liberal idiots out of all positions of authority and take our lives back.
problem f-ing solved...
Yay!
Now they can have even more harmful sugar replacements like sorbitol (which may, or may not be linked to rises in certain kinds of cancers, but it's cool because those companies would certainly NEVER try to hide things like that).
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News
Let's see, recesses are being shortened, high activity games are either banned or heavily structured for fear of "lawsuits" cause kids might "get hurt".
It's not what you eat, it's what you do. The more parents abdicate their responsibilities of raising their kids to the Gov't, the more problems we keep having.
Amazingly the answer seems to be "more control"! It's like the world has entered a dark time of stupid.
No sorbitol in this product.
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News
Let's see, recesses are being shortened, high activity games are either banned or heavily structured for fear of "lawsuits" cause kids might "get hurt".
It's not what you eat, it's what you do. The more parents abdicate their responsibilities of raising their kids to the Gov't, the more problems we keep having.
Amazingly the answer seems to be "more control"! It's like the world has entered a dark time of stupid.
Of course... Why don't we just skip this slide into a nanny state and just have the government take all children and raise them from birth, this way we won't have any bad parents doing atrocious acts like letting their kids have a chocolate milk at lunch.
In London there have been proposals to have parents have their homes hooked into CCTV with government monitoring so if the parents forget to change a diaper that the child protective services can come in and bring the kids into the loving arms of foster parents. (where kids are far more likely to be abused and/ or put on pharmaceuticals like Prozac and all.)
Of course... Why don't we just skip this slide into a nanny state and just have the government take all children and raise them from birth, this way we won't have any bad parents doing atrocious acts like letting their kids have a chocolate milk at lunch.
In London there have been proposals to have parents have their homes hooked into CCTV with government monitoring so if the parents forget to change a diaper that the child protective services can come in and bring the kids into the loving arms of foster parents. (where kids are far more likely to be abused and/ or put on pharmaceuticals like Prozac and all.)
Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar - Yahoo! News
Let's see, recesses are being shortened, high activity games are either banned or heavily structured for fear of "lawsuits" cause kids might "get hurt".
It's not what you eat, it's what you do. The more parents abdicate their responsibilities of raising their kids to the Gov't, the more problems we keep having.
Amazingly the answer seems to be "more control"! It's like the world has entered a dark time of stupid.
"like sorbitol" being the operative phrase.
I'm not aware of all the supplements used, but you can bet its something no human being was meant to consume.
Seriously, it's chocolate milk, not like the rest of the sugar substitutes have been banned.
Don't like it, send your kids to a private school or homeschool them.
The public babysitt...school doesn't exist to serve your kids palate.
I really think it's about being "more healthy." Given one generation, we could change the health habits of a nation. I mean, think about it. Why should the school system feed our children anything less than very healthy food? Jamie Oliver, by the way, is a genius with his focus on the eating habits and cafeterias of public schools.
The recommended daily allowance of sugar is 40 grams (on a 2,000-calorie diet)...or 8% of calories...or 10 teaspoons. Americans eat an average of 25 teaspoons of sugar a day -- teens eat an average of 34.
An 8-ounce glass of fat-free chocolate milk has 20 grams of sugar (half the recommended allowance, or 5 teaspoons of sugar. An 8-ounce serving of Coca-Cola, by the way, has 27 grams.
I used to love Burger King's plain chicken sandwich....a piece of breaded chicken, lettuce and a dressing of some sort. Know what the sodium content of that guy is? No? Well, it's 'cause BK would rather you don't know. It has 1390mg of sodium. Recommended daily amount? 2400.
So what's wrong with salt and sugar? They're "bait." We learn to love the taste....and we are more inclined to overeat on a high-sugar or high-salt diet.
If there's anyone out there that's looking to lose weight, and either salt or sugar are your triggers, cut them out as much as possible. Your appestat will change.
So. What's wrong with feeding kids healthy food?? At least in school. We'd be screamin' bloody murder if they were feeding our kids rocks.
The public schools don't serve to teach the kids much either... but they sure do like to push the political pet agenda's.
Last I knew soda and chocolate milk were legal, as are cookies and candy.
I think someone should start a community service group to have PI's follow these folks and report what they and their families ingest to the public.
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Public schools are regulated by the government, and it is perfectly within their power to do this.
It's perfectly stupid. It's chocolate Milk for crying out loud. My favorite lunch as a kid was PB and Honey sammiches and Chocolate Milk.
Yeah I know!
Its almost like when liberals tell us who we can and cant marry... Oh wait :coffeepap
I think if schools wanna do this, power to em!
Some of your over reactions are just incredible, kids shouldn't be drinking that **** anyway...
You wanna guzzle down soda and chocolate milk at home?
Be my guest. Do so at your own peril.
But i think sometimes, someone has to set the right trend, and besides, i think barring ppop and high sugar products in school would have a positive effect on kids behavior at school, stops them from being hyper then crashing during class.
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