Posted on 08/30/2014 7:34:07 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
To some, banning chocolate milk from elementary schools seemed like a good idea, but new Cornell University research shows that removing chocolate milk from school menus has negative consequences.
“When schools ban chocolate milk, we found it usually backfires. On average, milk sales drop by 10 percent, 29 percent of white milk gets thrown out, and participation in the school lunch program may also decrease,” reports Andrew Hanks, lead author and research associate Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. “This is probably not what parents wanted to see.”
The Cornell study, which included professors David Just and Brian Wansink was published today in PLOS ONE; it examined what happened when chocolate milk was banned in a sample of Oregon elementary school. It shows what happens when chocolate milk-loving kids are suddenly confronted with something paler – and proposes what researchers hope can be a healthful compromise.
“Members of the school district’s PTA were adamantly opposed to offering chocolate milk in the cafeterias, claiming it was as bad as soda,” said Hanks. “While this policy does eliminate the added sugar in chocolate milk, it also introduces a new set of nutritional and economic consequences. Children typically don’t choose foods for health, but rather for taste.”
Nutritionally, after the milk substitution, students consumed less sugar and fewer calories; however, they also consumed less protein and calcium.
It is not only good, it is good for you. I drink it after hard bicycle rides.
http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20110701/drinking-chocolate-milk-may-help-your-workout
I’ll bet liberal socialists never feed their kids a glass of chocolate milk at home. Of course not, they don’t have kids. They abort them. So, your kids better not drink it because some government liberal with an affirmative action arts degree in voodoo nutrition or psychology has decided it is bad for YOU and YOUR family.
Wake up America and smell the coffee, or chocolate milk, whichever you prefer.
(Maybe the kids' parents won't buy them chocolate milk either, and school has been the only supplier pampering them. Potato chips, anyone? A soda?)
Prayer outlawed in school...folks fought to fix it, sex ed...folks fought to fix it, sex ed for kindergartner...folks fought to fix it, lunches changed...folks fought to fix it. I am seeing a pattern. Homeschooling looks like it fixes all these problems.
Ahem. Tim Tebow is just example, among many, of the home schooling success story. Plus the Conservative Christian Bob Jones University provides wonderful, God-centered material for home schooling.
There they go again, picking on liberals some more by judging results instead of intentions. Next thing you know they’ll be telling us gun control doesn’t make us safer.
Wanna bet that's less white milk thrown out than before the choc milk ban? There's such a thing as validity which too many of these studies seem to forget.
I wonder if coffee milk is allowed.
Rhode Islanders love it.
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So is Katy Perry.
Not that there's anything wrong with either Perry or Tebow. They both have enjoyed a great level of success.
Plus the Conservative Christian Bob Jones University provides wonderful, God-centered material for home schooling.
I wouldn't have my two sons come within miles of anything that had Bob Jones' name on it. That university is a laughingstock.
No. I pay for the schools. I'm going to use them. And I'm going to do what I can to fix them.
You want to throw in the towel, go ahead. I won't.
One can do both, we did. Fruitless. The places are nut houses run by the inmates. I wanted to scream many times.
We are entitled to as much say in the schools as those with kids there. According to my property tax bill.
But my experience tells me that the public school system needs to be gutted and started over. 75% or more of the teachers and administrators need to be axed. That isn’t going to happen.
well that is exactly what the kids would be served in the school café. the cheapest vendor possible will get that business provided they were in good political odor with the local politburo.
Suddenly I have a taste for chocolate milk.
I think we disagree...albeit in a FRiendly way since Conservatives don't march in lockstep as do leftists. One of my pipedreams is that liberal indoctrination centers like Harvard, Cal. MIT and Princeton become branches of good schools such as Bob Jones, Liberty and Hillsdale. Sure, it's unlikely to ever happen but those universities would then teach the values that make America.
Michelle Obama, who knows absolutely nothing about pediatric nutrition, got it all wrong. Most children are very active, and they need carbohydrates because they burn a lot of energy. And older children and teenagers need protein, especially when they engage in sports (or cheerleading, swimming, bike riding, after-school basketball, etc.)
The bean sprouts, tofu and soy burgers that she tried to force our schoolchildren to eat just got thrown away, a tremendous waste. The kids would rather sneak off and buy a candy bar than to eat that vomit-flavored Obamaslop.
When I had an option, I always went for chocolate milk. Later I found out, 1) that I was lactose intolerant, and 2)that chocolate milk was way more digestable.
That's why breast milk is so sweet.
The assclown is so far out of touch with reality
The researcher should have tried whole milk. Maybe if they would leave the fat in, kids would like it better.
After jogging in the desert, I come back and drink 12 oz of water. About 15-30 minutes later, 8-10 oz of whole milk. It works great. Water can follow after that is absorbed.
We don’t need added sugars in chocolate milk, but we can use the fat in milk.
Chocolate milk is a great thing to drink after hard exercise. For the sedentary, it’s a problem.
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