No chocolate milk in schools?

I know schools are supposed to be feeding more nutritional meals, but come on, now complaining about letting kids drink chocolate milk? All because of a little sugar? It appears that governments are becoming a bit too intrusive over our daily lives, when what our kids eat, as long as it’s nutritional, should be made by the parents, not any government. Some schools are now removing flavored milk from the menu.

While many school boards are eliminating the flavored milk, we have many nutritionists arguing which include, the School Nutrition Association,American Academy of Pediatrics, American Dietetic Association, American Heart Association, and National Medical Association, that the nutritional value of flavored low-fat or skim milk outweighs the harm of added sugar. Milk contains nine essential nutrients including calcium, vitamin D and protein.

What other option then, do kids have for a beverage in schools, if not milk? They’ve already taken out the soda pop, and junk foods. Besides, as recent study shows that children still derive greater nutritional benefits from drinking fat-free, flavored milk and are not heavier than those that do not drink milk.

But removing the chocolate milk from the menu also shows a drop in milk consumption in the schools, and in some cases it dropped 35%.

First Lady Michelle Obama has targeted childhood obesity as her platform, and contends that while Americans are “programmed” to make unhealthy choices, the federal government can “re-program” the personal tastes of Americans. So once again, government knows what’s best for us and our kids? What may be well intentions is in fact, government taking away our choices.

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