Does a body good? (ap photo)
A school in Illinois banned chocolate milk from its lunchroom cafeteria for a year but has recently reinstated the beverage after students protested. NPR reported last week that the National Dairy Council is working to keep the chocolate milk in school cafeterias because they say milk consumption declines when only plain white milk is available for kids. They say the added sugar is an acceptable trade-off for the nutrients that milk provides.
Ann Cooper, the director of nutrition services for public schools in Boulder, Colo., has successfully banned chocolate milk in her district. She told NPR that the sweet milk is “soda in drag.”
What do you think? Should children be allowed their daily dose of chocolate milk? Is the dairy industry simply trying to protect its interests? Is the milk “soda in drag”? Leave your votes and comments.
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They should do it like it was when I was in school we had white milk for 2 weeks and then we would get 2 seperate days of chocolate milk and it was like getting a gift we all looked forward to it but we just didn’t have the option to drink it everyday. So it was appreciated more .
Why can’t they make a chocolate milk with Splenda so there will be no added sugar? Then the kids could continue to enjoy their chocolate.