***Note – I found this interesting in light of the fact that some schools are using strawberry flavored milk as a way to get female students to ingest more calcium.
Is sugar-laden chocolate milk a necessary lunchroom bribe to get needed calcium and Vitamin D into our children?
That question has flavored milk in the cross hairs of many school districts across the country, put there by those who say it's really no better than soda and we're knowingly sugaring up our kids at the one place they are supposed to get a healthy meal - the school cafeteria.
Is sugar-laden chocolate milk a necessary lunchroom bribe to get needed calcium and Vitamin D into our children?
That question has flavored milk in the cross hairs of many school districts across the country, put there by those who say it's really no better than soda and we're knowingly sugaring up our kids at the one place they are supposed to get a healthy meal - the school cafeteria.
This fall, Washington, D.C., schools banned the sweet drink, which can pack up to 31 grams of sugar in an 8-ounce serving. So have districts in New York, California and Colorado.
But some lunch ladies - school nutritionists, too - and the dairy industry that fills their fridges argue that if you ditch chocolate-, vanilla- and strawberry-flavored milk, students' thirst for all milk will drop 35 percent .
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