Los Angeles bans chocolate milk from schools

Syracuse.com ^ | June 15, 2011, 6:47 PM | The Associated Press The Associated Press

[TexasCajun]

Los Angeles -- The Los Angeles school board on Tuesday voted to eliminate chocolate and strawberry milk from schools as of July 1.

LAUSD joins a growing number of school districts nationwide, including in the District of Columbia, Boulder Valley, Colo., and Berkeley, Calif., that serve only plain milk because of the added sugar contained in flavored versions.

The proposal by Superintendent John Deasy came after popular British TV chef Jamie Oliver criticized the district in recent months for serving flavored milks, saying they contain the sugar equivalent of a candy bar.

[Salvavida]

At least they will start graduating healthier stupid kids.

What an achievement.

[muawiyah]

Technically it's all pita bread ~ with stuff on it.

I don't worry about the fat in meat, dairy products, fish or olive oil. Some of it is actually good for you. However, when you cut out all your unnecesary carbs you're going to need the fats and oils to avoid the problems that arise when you consume more than 40% of your caloric intake as protein.

Your basic hunter/gatherer diet of meat, nuts, fish and roots is probably still your best bet.

[Batrachian]

"Your basic hunter/gatherer diet of meat, nuts, fish and roots is probably still your best bet. "

They mostly starved, but you're probably right. Do you really make pizza with Provolone? I know it's a free country (sort of), but some things just aren't right.

[muawiyah]

I sometimes make pizza with AGED CHEDDAR ~ from safeway. Only use the “extra sharp” variety. I’ve even used goat’s milk brie.

[jonsie]

LOL, are you saying the food they serve is good for our students? ;)

[muawiyah]

School lunches are healthy. It would be best to cut back on the carbs, but I wouldn't deny the kids chocolate milk to do that. You could eliminate the slice of bread they get, or the bun on the burgers, and that'd remove more carbs than getting rid of the chocolate milk.

Beanie Weanies would be preferable to just hotdogs on buns.

[jonsie]

Okay, please visit a NC school cafeteria, the food is junk. A typical student meal is pizza and french fries. As a teacher of 30 years I have seen the lunch offers change as well as the students physique change and not for the better.

[muawiyah]

Make better pizza.

[Mase]

But fat still delivers more than twice the amount of calories per gram as carbs. Your body needs a lot of glucose to operate effectively. Carbs are an important part of any diet and, like all macronutrients, should be consumed in moderation. Trying to demonize one macronutrient over another doesn't make much sense because the problems being debated can normally be avoided by simply consuming less energy than you expend.

My grandfather's generation were mostly employed by agriculture. They worked like hell and consumed a diet high in carbohydrates. Yet obesity and diabetes were rare. Michael Phelps consumes around 12,000 calories a day when he's in training. His diet is heavily weighted to carbohydrates because he needs the energy. He needs his glycogen reserves maxed out. I'd say he's in pretty good shape and is one hell of a competitor. He wouldn't be either of those if he didn't "carb up" like he does.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Good grief. If a kid is getting sufficient exercise, the fat/sugar from the chocolate in the milk will get burned away during the course of the day. One of my boys will *only* drink chocolate milk right now (though I hope to persuade him back to plain milk later). The other one won’t drink milk of any kind, though luckily he likes cheese so he gets plenty of that. This edict is just silliness. A sugary, but otherwise healthy drink of milk is better than juice from a box (which is almost pure sugar and nothing else).

[HiTech RedNeck]

It makes it harder to eat the cucumber, that’s for sure.

[TexasCajun]

I teach High School in NC

Is Phycical Education, P.E., a mandatory class or an elective in high school these days, or even Jr. High.

Kids today sit in class all day, get mommie to write a note to get them out of P.E. and then go home and sit some more.

[VermiciousKnid]

Send the kiddies to school with one of these little things:

http://www.magicstraws.com/products.php

Regards,

PS: I bet they took away whole milk, too. BLEEECH on that skim crap. Nannies stink.

[VermiciousKnid]

I remember that! It was a great honor to be the milk monitor every day.

You got to collect the money (7 cents, I think), and go down to pick up the cartons of milk. They were carried in a metal rack-thing that looked a bit like an open tool box.

Both the plain and chocolate varieties were WHOLE milk, and yes...we’d save them to stomp on them in the schoolyard.

BANG! BANG BANG! BANGBANGBANG!

Regards,

[muawiyah]

Way back in the days when I was in Army Basic Infantry Training we probably needed 7500 calories a day just to be able to stand up. So, we ate heavily. Later on when energy requirements dropped the Army gave us a 1500 to 2000 calorie per day diet.

At the same time your maximum allowable consumption of protein is about 40% of your caloric intake. You should split the remaining 60% between fats and carbs. Some folks need more fats than others ~ actually, our Ice Age ancestors did, and even today there are groups that continue to need far more fats than carbs ~ they might even live in regions without carbohydrate resources.

BTW, Seal skin contains Vitamin C.

[SIDENET]

I cry just thinking about all that I could have become had I not had chocolate milk.

Chocolate milk made me retarded.

[Mase]

You should split the remaining 60% between fats and carbs.

So we don't need to "give up" carbs to be ok?

Never knew that about seal skin....although, I think I'll stick with orange juice.

[muawiyah]

You don't have to give up carbs, but you have to have regular input of fats to trigger the production of certain enzymes that metabolize triglycerides and other assorted lipids and junk.

Regular steak dinners should take care of the problem but once you max out on protein you really do have to eat something else. That should take quite a while because steak is full of fat (in the cells).