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.
These folks are dumber than a box of rocks.
Wouldn’t banning anything Chocolate be racis’?
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Again highly paid professors validate the infallibility of the “law of unintended consequences”!
I do not recall parents being asked their opinions
Less kids on the free lunch program??
Hmmm - maybe I agree with Mrs Obama
Mmmmm . . . 14 oz. of whole milk, chilled to 39 degrees in a tall glass mixed with two slightly heaping teaspoons of Nestle’s Quik. None of that syrupy 2% slop they have in the convenience store coolers, which is hardly better than Yoo-hoo.
Why throw out the spoiled milk? It should be sent to MOOchelle at the whitehut.
There is no reason why chocolate milk can’t be every bit as nutritious (if not more so) than 2%. It is simply that in lib think if the kids like it then it must be bad for them.
There is no reason why chocolate milk can’t be every bit as nutritious (if not more so) than 2%. It is simply that in lib think if the kids like it then it must be bad for them.
Screw homeschooling.
I'm paying a significant amount of my tax dollars to fund the public school system. I'd rather fight to reclaim the schools. Homeschooling is giving up.
That the researchers see this as a negative is telling.
I am somewhat civil in the morning after a couple scoops (not teaspoons) in 18oz French press coffee
Married to a Russian, I've learned there is no such thing as spoiled milk.
Milk doesn't spoil, it simply changes.
Waiiiiit.....they got rid of the brown milk cause they felt the white was superior????? Call Shartongue and the Just Us department!!
And to think that all of these years we’ve been hearing how Republicans are the ones who want to starve chldren and take away their milk.
Homeschooling is the only thing that’s going to save this country.
I have watched whole communities try to take on the school board over sex ed curriculum that should NEVER have made it into the school in the first place, and the school board totally ignored everyone, even the superintendent and did what it wanted anyway.
You might as well be trying to save the Titanic.
Public schools are such an abysmal failure that they deserve to crash and burn. And homeschoolers certainly can and do vote and try to reclaim the public schools, but it’s not going to be done by sending your kids to the public schools. It’s going to be done at the voting booth and getting on the school board.
I don’t like paying school taxes either, but there’s simply nothing that can be done about that.
But no way in hell am I going to sacrifice my children on the altar of liberalism by sending them to have their minds laid waste by a public education.
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