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Lazamataz is hanging in the balance!
Posted on 04/28/2011 10:00:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Los Angeles schools will remove high-sugar chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk from their lunch and breakfast menus after food activists campaigned for the change, L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced this week.
Deasy revealed his intent, which will require approval by the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education, during an appearance with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Tuesday night.
The policy change is part of a carefully negotiated happy ending between the Los Angeles Unified School District and Oliver. The chef's confrontations with the school system became a main theme in the current season of the TV reality show "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution."
The timing of the flavored-milk ban, which had been under consideration for some time, gave Oliver a positive outcome and allowed the nation's second-largest school system to escape the villain's role. Deasy quickly alerted the school board to the deal before going on television.
In early episodes, Oliver's show had presented former Supt. Ramon Cortines and school board members with unflattering sound bites and camera angles. But with Deasy, the British chef gushed that he'd enroll his own child in L.A. public schools, if he had one here.
L.A. Unified led the nation in efforts to ban junk-food snacks and sodas, but its meals could be healthier, despite exceeding federal standards.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Will the city remove booze and drugs from the city council chambers?
Chocolate milk is healthier for kids than juice or water. White milk is best. Children need milk, particularly whole milk, for brain growth.
If kids pick juice over white milk, once chocolate milk is banned, then that milk protein, Vit D, vitamin nutrients are lost.
Chocolate milk is not what’s making kids fat.
That's racist!
My wife like PB on apples too.
I predict that even fewer will drink it without the chocolate flavor.
Just brilliant now the kids will drink no milk at all. We did have these choices in shcool and most of us drank either choc or straw. few chose regular milk.
It most probably was just regular milk with some chemoflavonoidoids added. There’s no “real” strawberry flavor anymore anywhere. But those “activists” can’t let people have things in anything besides “plain”...
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