The most popular story in today’s Washington Post concerns the “controversy” over flavored milk in schools. Two jurisdictions in the paper’s readership area–the District of Columbia and Fairfax County–have recently banned milk with added sugar from their cafeterias. But because of complaints from the community, Fairfax County this month announced that it is re-introducing chocolate […]
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Parents can breathe a little easier now that a group of experts in the most authoritative assessment yet [PDF] has found that kids are not suffering a “calcium crisis” as the dairy industry might have us believe. Still, with school districts all over the country debating whether they should be serving sugar-injected chocolate or strawberry-flavored […]
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The dairy industry would like to see Americans everywhere lift a glass for chocolate milk—and pour one for their kids while they’re at it. Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, sees that as a recipe for a health disaster. Willett says the nation’s schools should not be […]
Tags:diabetes·flavored milk·heart disease·obesity·school food·sugar
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