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USDA considering chocolate milk ban in school cafeterias to combat childhood obesity
Fox News ^ | May 16, 2023 8:58pm EDT | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 05/17/2023 1:42:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is considering limits on certain food and drink like chocolate milk in schools to “reduce children’s risk of chronic disease.”

In February, the USDA first proposed updates to public school nutrition standards that would limit sodium intake and added sugars from students’ diets. Among its proposals included limiting the amount of flavored milk, such as strawberry and chocolate, in high schools while outright prohibiting it in elementary and middle schools.

“USDA is proposing to allow flavored milk for high school children only (grades 9-12). This approach would reduce exposure to added sugars and would promote the more nutrient-dense choice of unflavored milk for young children when their tastes are being formed. The proposed regulatory text for this alternative would allow flavored milk only for high schools (grades 9-12),” the proposal read.

It continued, “Children in grades K-5 would again be limited to a variety of unflavored milk.” […]

In contrast, some nutrition directors criticized the proposal, noting that chocolate milk still contains essential nutrients and is the preferred beverage of children. …

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TOPICS: Education; Food
KEYWORDS: chocolatemilk; letsmove; moochelletwopointoh; obamalegacy
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To: Vaduz

Thre were very few overweight kids when I went to school bcause we were active outside - no sitting in front of cell phones or computers 24/7. And that’s the problem not what they eat. They’re doing ‘nothing’ to burn off what they eat.


61 posted on 05/17/2023 8:28:14 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

They’re doing ‘nothing’

Indeed when was the last time you seen kids have a baseball game after school and the girls kept active too roller skating and many other things.


62 posted on 05/17/2023 8:32:11 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Vaduz

Weell that’s just it - they’re not using their bodies to burn up what they stuff in their mouths sitting in front of their computers. Many get ‘muffin waists’ and that goes for gals and guys.


63 posted on 05/17/2023 8:34:34 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

Pssst it’s the parents that give it to them.

You don’t see many dads moms helping them build things too.


64 posted on 05/17/2023 8:58:11 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Jonty30

Obesity is because the children at on their butts playing video games and texting instead of out there being active.

One glass of chocolate milk is not causing it.


65 posted on 05/17/2023 9:04:21 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Engedi

Processed food is “cheap” due to subsidy.

I look to Europe for nothing. That’s the real heart of socialism.


66 posted on 05/17/2023 10:02:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: bgill

That does not stop the smell of milk gone bad.


67 posted on 05/17/2023 10:04:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: IamConservative
How does a government agency sell out to “corporate food interests”? It’s the other way around. Or perhaps it’s this:
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

— Goal #37 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
Leftists are already in control of the government agency by creating it (unconstitutionally), so they also take over the previously-independent big businesses and they work together.
68 posted on 05/17/2023 10:09:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

My kid drinks several cups a day. I’ve also seen it referenced as a great post workout drink.


69 posted on 05/17/2023 10:13:50 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t say it was a smart move, just that that’s what happened.


70 posted on 05/17/2023 10:18:19 AM PDT by bgill
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To: stanne
Indeed there shouldn’t even be a department of agriculture, whose existence at least from 1889 (when it became part of the cabinet) is designed to give the POTUS power beyond what the Constitution confers on him.
71 posted on 05/17/2023 10:19:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
How does a government agency sell out to “corporate food interests”?

Guys like Tom Vilsack sell their influence, and in cases, flat out take bribes for policy actions that favor those buying the influence. In effect, selling out the mission of the FDA and those who paid for the FDA.

72 posted on 05/17/2023 12:11:29 PM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: Olog-hai
So chocolate milk is bad while the clot shot, hormones, and carving up kid's genitals is okay?

73 posted on 05/17/2023 1:02:35 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: IamConservative

See my last post.


74 posted on 05/17/2023 2:00:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry disagree on food in Europe. They have banned cancer causing chemicals in their foods we on other head have not. We put thousands of cancer causing ingredients in our processed foods, meats, etc. When they get caught, they simply change the name of ingredient.


75 posted on 05/24/2023 7:16:02 AM PDT by Engedi
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