Who knew?
Dana Woldow, writing in Education News on May 14th, and the founder (pdf) of Parents, Educators, and Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food, PEACHSF, states that
A conflict over whether schools should offer flavored milk has been raging for years, pitting advocates for better school food against each other.
Apparently there are two camps: 1. Chocolate milk is Bad therefore it must be banned. 2. Any milk is good, let it go.
Chocolate milk is banned in Los Angeles, DC, Berkley, Fairfax, and Louisville, Colorado where it's called "Soda in drag." As a matter of fact, "flavored milk" as it's called, counts for 70% of milk purchases and when it's removed from the school menu, milk sales drop 37%. It's also liquid candy with 5 added teaspoons of sugar.
In a sound bit of advice, Ms. Woldow advises, regarding added sugar that
Let’s start using our power as consumers to dial it back – waaay back – not just in our schools, but in our entire food supply.
This is exactly how Free-Markets work. If you don't like or want something, don't buy it. Don't like gay marriage? Don't marry a fag, don't go to one unless you're playing real-life Wedding Crashers then your ass'd better be FABULOUS. Don't like the crudity and fart jokes on the Comedy Central cartoon South Park? Don't watch it. Think it's inappropriate for your kids? Spend time with them instead. If you don't like something, don't participate in it and at the same time, do not attempt to make another's choices for them. Abortion - if you consider it infanticide, don't have one. See? It's easy.
You cannot impose your will on another because you're taking away their free choice which is anathema to the natural human condition.
Being overweight has reached unacceptable levels in this country. If you choose to be fat and overeat, do not expect someone else to pay your medical bills because you choose greater than a 1500 calorie a day meal plan. Keep in mind, the older you get, the less calories you need because you're slowing down and not as active anymore. I maintained 155 pounds for years because I was out in the field. Having an office job ballooned me up to 175 pounds and it's slowly coming off because of a strict 1,200 calorie a day diet.
Height/weight calculations, BMI, is a major consideration in prescriptions and Medicare/Medicaid. At 5' 11" and 7/8ths and 175 pounds, I was within .5% of being considered overweight, and I was; my belly fat sat on top of my belt and used it for a kickstand. Yes BMI can be misconstrued and there are arguments out there for discontinuing the scale but the opponents of BMI use muscle-mass athletes as their baseline, not normal You and Me type people. The Body/Mass Index is an excellent firstline gauge of who's fat and who isn't and who has potential health problems. Once you hit 30 on the BMI scale, you're officially on notice your lifestyle needs to change. ASAP. Everybody gets old and everybody dies but it's that quality of life during those end days that'll define us.
A healthy, normal, active person, up to 6 feet tall, should never weigh more than 175 pounds. Ask your government.
Michelle Obama, who wishes to dictate the course of national debate regarding school lunches is quite adamant about limiting caloric intact in our schools. This raised the Chocolate Milk/White Milk controversy to a new level and placed it firmly in the sphere of top-down government regulation versus individual choice.
Michelle Obama is a pear-shaped fat-ass who's taken her weight obsession and imposed it upon the national consciousness. I think she forgets that it's every person's right to choose what they can afford to eat and when. And then we come to government run schools ...
In 1918, under Woodrow Wilson, it became compulsory for every child to attend elementary school. Prior to 1918 it was kinda like going to church as in you'd go every Sunday and contribute what you could for the upkeep of the parish. Students who wanted to learn, who wanted to better themselves walked to school, barefoot, in snow, uphill both ways, and their parents would give what they could including what little cash they had or a side of pig or canned goods or coming together to build a schoolhouse and attempting to attract a viable teacher. If you didn't want your kids to attend school, they went right to work as soon as they were old enough to understand how to. Technically, if you pay your kids a dollar to go out and weed your garden, then sell those veggies on the open market, you're in violation of Federal law.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This is when Americans lost control of their families. It literally became illegal for your children to work. They HAD to attend school whether there was an aptitude for it or not. No longer were you allowed to teach your kids how to raise crops or make clothes or how to sight where a tree would fall. The Government stated your children are no longer your own and We will dictate what they learn regardless what you as parents think.
Fast forward to the 21st Century.
TBC
Since the Government mandates that all children attend school, they also mandate what they eat. It's a hoot listening to the pundits expound on government mandated healthcare and how the government can't make you buy something ... like health insurance. Um, the government makes you buy auto insurance. Where's the big leap from auto to health? There isn't, it's just a small stepping stone.
That little 8 ounce container of chocolate milk does not matter a whit in the scope of meal planning.
There are 4 calories per gram of sugar which means there's 128 calories of sugar, added sugar, in this typical 8 ounce milk carton. Does it matter? No, it doesn't because a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down:
Here's the rest of what's in that carton of milk
| Water |
214.9 g |
| Energy |
226 kcal |
| Energy |
947 kj |
| Protein |
8.59 g |
| Total lipid (fat) |
8.62 g |
| Ash |
2.07 g |
| Carbohydrate, by difference |
31.68 g |
| Fiber, total dietary |
1.1 g |
| Calcium, Ca |
253 mg |
| Iron, Fe |
0.8 mg |
| Magnesium, Mg |
48 mg |
| Phosphorus, P |
234 mg |
| Potassium, K |
458 mg |
| Sodium, Na |
154 mg |
| Zinc, Zn |
1.28 mg |
| Copper, Cu |
0.218 mg |
| Manganese, Mn |
0.17 mg |
| Selenium, Se |
9.6 mcg |
| Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid |
0.3 mg |
| Thiamin |
0.114 mg |
| Riboflavin |
0.479 mg |
| Niacin |
0.378 mg |
| Pantothenic acid |
0.894 mg |
| Vitamin B-6 |
0.09 mg |
| Folate, total |
13 mcg |
| Folic acid |
~ mcg |
| Folate, food |
13 mcg |
| Folate, DFE |
13 mcg_DFE |
| Vitamin B-12 |
1.06 mcg |
| Vitamin A, IU |
250 IU |
| Vitamin A, RAE |
69 mcg_RAE |
| Retinol |
69 mcg |
| Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) |
0.16 mg |
| Vitamin K (phylloquinone) |
0.8 mcg |
| Fatty acids, total saturated |
4.948 g |
| 4:0 |
0.181 g |
| 6:0 |
0.181 g |
| 8:0 |
0.181 g |
| 10:0 |
0.181 g |
| 12:0 |
0.186 g |
| 13:0 |
~ g |
| 14:0 |
0.724 g |
| 15:0 |
~ g |
| 16:0 |
2.195 g |
| 17:0 |
~ g |
| 18:0 |
1.12 g |
| 20:0 |
~ g |
| 22:0 |
~ g |
| 24:0 |
~ g |
| Fatty acids, total monounsaturated |
2.205 g |
| 14:1 |
~ g |
| 16:1 undifferentiated |
0.003 g |
| 18:1 undifferentiated |
2.205 g |
| 20:1 |
~ g |
| 22:1 undifferentiated |
~ g |
| Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated |
0.495 g |
| 18:2 undifferentiated |
0.311 g |
| 18:3 undifferentiated |
0.181 g |
| 18:4 |
~ g |
| 20:4 undifferentiated |
~ g |
| 20:5 n-3 |
~ g |
| 22:5 n-3 |
~ g |
| 22:6 n-3 |
~ g |
| Cholesterol |
24 mg |
| Tryptophan |
0.192 g |
| Threonine |
0.372 g |
| Isoleucine |
0.426 g |
| Leucine |
0.684 g |
| Lysine |
0.372 g |
| Methionine |
0.189 g |
| Cystine |
0.048 g |
| Phenylalanine |
0.388 g |
| Tyrosine |
0.394 g |
| Valine |
0.505 g |
| Arginine |
0.218 g |
| Histidine |
0.194 g |
| Alanine |
0.279 g |
| Aspartic acid |
0.641 g |
| Glutamic acid |
1.67 g |
| Glycine |
0.21 g |
| Proline |
0.857 g |
| Serine |
0.285 g |
| Alcohol, ethyl |
~ g |
| Caffeine |
8 mg |
| Theobromine |
277 mg |
| Carotene, beta |
13 mcg |
| Carotene, alpha |
~ mcg |
| Cryptoxanthin, beta |
~ mcg |
| Lycopene |
~ mcg |
| Lutein + zeaxanthin |
~ mcg |
Back off.
No federal mandate on school lunch menus. This is a local issue.
Serving Size
11.00000 cup (8 fl oz) (266.0 g)
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Amount Per Serving
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Polyunsaturated Fat
0.5g0.5
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Monounsaturated Fat
2.2g2.2
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Total Carbohydrates
31.7g31.7
11%11
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| Vitamin A 5%5 |
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Vitamin C 0%0 |
| Calcium 25%25 |
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Iron 4%4 |
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