Whole Milk Taken Off School Menus

www.countypressonline.com ^ | 09/10/2003 | By Loretta Rodgers

[Tribune7]

In compliance with USDA regulations, the Penn-Delco School District has removed whole milk from its cafeteria menus.

A limited quantity of whole milk will be available to children and staff upon request.

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

Whole milk is fattening and it tastes like your drinking butter. Drink skim milk, it's better.

It's not the fat in milk that is fattening, it is the lactose (sugar). Skim milk is much worse for you than whole. The % sugar content of skim milk is very high, and stimulates the pancreas to secrete insulin, the fat-storing hormone. Any unused sugar in the bloodstream gets stored as fat. The fat in whole milk mitigates the "sugar blast" by regulating the absorption rate of the lactose. Skim milk is worthless poison. My father always told me that skim milk is the waste from the cream making process they used to feed to the hogs to fatten them up. It is nutritionally worthless.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

As a family we have total lactose intolerance.

Tough. Why impose your problems on the rest of us?

[meyer]

Of course the web site www.milksucks is biased. It's biased against the evils of milk and the milk industry. It does mention PETA. However, consider this: During the 1930's the Catholic Church placed NAZI flags in the Catholic Churches all over Europe. Do you therefore consider the Catholic Church to be completely Discredited.

Displaying a flag prior to its becoming a symbol of a murderous extreme leftist/socialist regime makes a silly analogy when compared to an anti-milk web site that spews forth the same bald-faced lies about milk that a fring group like PETA might propogate.

[muawiyah]

Around here we are the majority. Why should we bend to your will?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Around here we are the majority. Why should we bend to your will?

Huh? Your the one with the problem, dude. My diet shouldn't be restricted because of your problem.

This diet crap is nothing but a thinly disguised control-game. Ban Peanuts! Kids can die! Ban milk! Kids are allegric! Ban hamburgers! Too much fat!

I say: Ban the control freaks.

[T Minus Four]

I appologise. I should have sent you to WWW.milksucks.com instead of www.milksux.com I'm not trying to stear anyone wrong here, I believe that each person should look at the facts pro and con of every issue. And they should look at the facts from every possible angle before deciding where they chose to stand

Fact: drinking milk makes you a better speller and punctuator.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Milk is bad, and the skimmer it is, the worse it is. Put a little heavy whipping cream in your coffee if you want, that's fine, but I'm of the opinion that no one should drink milk at all - it's loaded with carbs and just makes kids fat. Skim milk tastes like water, so people drink too much of it trying to feel satisfied and end up consuming way too many carbs in the process.

The schools policy of pulling whole milk will have just the opposite effect from what they intend.

[js1138]

Sounds like you needed to pay a friendly visit to the teacher and possibly, to the principal. I had a ren-in with a principal once, and after a couple of hours on the phone to the school board -- mostly on hold, but I'm stubborn -- the problem went away.

[Temple Owl]

They should be allowed to drink red wine. It will make them feel good and it has been proven to be good for one's health.

[Tribune7]

Certainly make the school day more pleasant.

[mtbopfuyn]

Dunno about goats milk but milk fresh from the cow with that bit of cream floating on the top ... yummmm, heaven! Straight from the source is always better than store bought.

Those concerned about lactose could get their daily milk allowance from yogurt. I make mine and it couldn't be simpler - yogurt, yogurt drink, yogurt cheese. The hard to digest lactose is changed to easily digested lactic acid when milk is converted into yogurt.

[Temple Owl]

But no French wine!!! Just Pennsylvania stuff bought in Delaware.

[mtbopfuyn]

Around my community the majority of the children in the public schools are lactose intolerant.

Don't you find a problem with that? Mankind has been drinking milk since the dawn of time yet only now we've developed lactose intolerance. Kind of goes along with all the other recent rises in asthma, peanut allergies, and allergies in general. IMO, it's due to a reduction in breast feeding infants, schools and homes recirculating stale airconditioning, and kids not outside in the sunshine and, as someone else said, eating their pound of dirt.

[meyer]

Don't you find a problem with that? Mankind has been drinking milk since the dawn of time yet only now we've developed lactose intolerance. Kind of goes along with all the other recent rises in asthma, peanut allergies, and allergies in general. IMO, it's due to a reduction in breast feeding infants, schools and homes recirculating stale airconditioning, and kids not outside in the sunshine and, as someone else said, eating their pound of dirt.

I wonder also if it isn't a bit of over-diagnosis, as is the case with Ritalin.

[meyer]

Don't you find a problem with that? Mankind has been drinking milk since the dawn of time yet only now we've developed lactose intolerance. Kind of goes along with all the other recent rises in asthma, peanut allergies, and allergies in general. IMO, it's due to a reduction in breast feeding infants, schools and homes recirculating stale airconditioning, and kids not outside in the sunshine and, as someone else said, eating their pound of dirt.

I wonder also if it isn't a bit of over-diagnosis, as is the case with Ritalin.

[Domestic Church]

You are right about the Ca absorption-fat link. Also, children need a certain amount of fat in the diet for the developement of the nervous system as nerve cells have a fatty sheath.

The schools should be more concerned with exposing the kids to aspartamine in diet sodas and such as that is very bad for the developing nervous system.

[MomwithHope]

Yogurt is good but kefir is better! We make it also from our fresh goats milk. Kefir has a much broader spectrum of good stuff. Makes wonderful smoothies and tastes like mild buttermilk.

[Soliv123]

No drinking does not make you a better speller and punctuater. I was equally bad at spelling and punctuating when I drank milk. The fact is I worked at a creamery while attending a Methodist Church. I went to a potluck supper/bible study meeting at the house of a wealthy Church Elder. I brought a carton of milk and was told by the Elder that human being are able to digest milk sugar for the first 3 years of their lives and then they should stop drinking milk. I have since found that there are lots of reasons to stay away from milk. However, I appreciate your humor. Have a nice day.

[Soliv123]

No, there are no lies on the website WWW.milksucks.com Me thinks you are ill.

[Soliv123]

No SD I am not telling lies about the Catholic Church and the NAZI flags. And I am not talking FAIRY tales about milk. The fact is, Milk is bad for you.