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Banning chocolate milk backfires
Cornell Chronicle ^ | APRIL 16, 2014 | BY MELISSA OSGOOD

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.


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To: Drew68
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.

No it's not. In addition to providing a critical competitor to the public monolith, it's building a mass-customized market in pedagogies perfectly suited to a voucher based educational system.

41 posted on 08/30/2014 9:59:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: Drew68
Home education also allows the same number of public dollars to be spent on fewer kids.

Yet you bitch about it.

42 posted on 08/30/2014 10:01:28 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Sweeten the chocolate milk with Stevia, or any other natural low calorie sweetener.

Problem solved.

43 posted on 08/30/2014 10:08:43 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Drew68
I wouldn't have my two sons come within miles of anything that had Bob Jones' name on it. That university is a laughingstock.

Neither would I, albeit for technical reasons. Lest you think our family not holding to high academic standards...

Oh, and be sure to read the article on that thread and ask yourself if you've EVER seen such work in a public school for children of 12-14.

If you want to fix public education, there is a better way than socializing it.

44 posted on 08/30/2014 10:14:17 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: jespasinthru
"Obamaslop"?

OBAMASLOP!

Word of the DAY!

45 posted on 08/30/2014 10:26:34 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Proud grandpa of a "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks (Call sign "Popsickle").)
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To: metmom

Public schools should be done away with.


46 posted on 08/31/2014 12:02:21 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Milk did me a lot of damage by teen years because I was lactose intolerant by then. Biologically we are supposed to stop consuming milk as we transition to adulthood though some people do have a genetic mutation that allows them to process raw milk better. I am not one of those mutants, sadly.
47 posted on 08/31/2014 1:38:05 AM PDT by Mentallo (Better dead than Muhammad)
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To: metmom

“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.”

This is what I did. I taught my children about our great country. They attended weekly religious services, they learned to play a musical instrument, they played competitive sports.

I taught them to think for themselves and not to be taken in by group think. I taught them what it means to be a good citizen, how to give back to their community and be respectful of their parents, teachers, peers.

They both went to very liberal public schools. On several occasions, I spent mornings in the principal’s office, with teachers and guidance counselors, having them explain to me the curriculum.as I present proof of fallacies in the text books.

Both of my kids are now attending very liberal colleges. Neither one is in a liberal arts program.

If there is one thing I learned from all of this is, if you do right in the home, your kids will do right in their lives. No liberal will ever take that away from our children as hard as they may try.


48 posted on 08/31/2014 3:21:07 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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To: Mike Darancette

There is no reason why chocolate milk can’t be every bit as nutritious (if not more so) than 2%.
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A few years ago I spent a weekend at my daughter’s house to visit and see my grandkids. All they had was that horrible 2% milk. It tasted like 1/3 milk and 2/3 water. There can’t be much nutrition there.


49 posted on 08/31/2014 3:42:39 AM PDT by octex
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To: Yogafist

I do too. I have a Trek for riding outside and a NordicTrack for riding inside on bad days and nothing revives me better after a hard ride than a glass of chocolate milk with Nestle Quick. It’s very good for you. I can’t stand the taste of white milk so if I get milk it has to be chocolate.


50 posted on 08/31/2014 4:00:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I thrive on Hershey's.
51 posted on 08/31/2014 4:03:33 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

All this, just to find out that our ruling Moslems,
who MAKE our laws (the EXEMPT Congress is extinct),
do not like chocolate milk.


52 posted on 08/31/2014 4:20:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“Do Gooders” seldom do good.............


53 posted on 08/31/2014 4:23:46 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Drew68

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.

Not on the children............


54 posted on 08/31/2014 4:26:37 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: GeronL
“This is probably not what parents wanted to see.”

I do not recall parents being asked their opinions

What they meant to say was: "This is probably not what our unelected experts had divined, by means of telepathy, to be the parents' wishes."

Regards,

55 posted on 08/31/2014 4:36:27 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Texicanus
I’ll bet liberal socialists never feed their kids a glass of chocolate milk at home. Of course not, they don’t have kids.

I have found through the years that the most vociferous people telling me how to raise my children never had children.

56 posted on 08/31/2014 5:14:30 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Remember what happened when alcohol was banned during prohibition?

How about when the mandatory 55 mph speed limit was introduced?

The bottom line is that the end result was that both of those resulted in a lack of respect for law and order and millions of people learned how to be criminals. That’s happening all over again. When will the do-gooders ever learn?


57 posted on 08/31/2014 5:27:18 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

You don’t need to be a college professor to reach this general conclusion. An 8th grade drop out knows this without doing a study.


58 posted on 08/31/2014 5:47:50 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Diana in Wisconsin



59 posted on 08/31/2014 6:00:10 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Never seen a chocolate milk backfire, but I imagine it's messy. Don't know about banning them, though.


60 posted on 08/31/2014 7:25:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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