Sentences with phrase «flavored milk»

Moreover, anyone who comes to the defense of flavored milk is often accused of being co-opted (or haplessly brainwashed) by the dairy industry, which obviously has a vested interest in keeping flavored milk in school cafeterias.

To add to your dissection of the data behind the Jamie Oliver Sugar Bus the assumption was made that all the children in LAUSD are drinking flavored milk for lunch AND breakfast.

Banning flavored milk will provide only a decrease in students purchasing healthy meals.

High - sugar foods such as fruit juices, sodas, and flavored milk can cause dental caries in babies.

And then there are parents who believe that neither flavored milk nor plain milk is a necessary part of a child's diet and that we've all been sold a bill of goods by the dairy industry.

That's the approach in France, where no schools have flavored milk.

Whatever your feelings about flavored milk, these are all thoughtful comments which add to a meaningful discussion.

Milk processors in CA are already offering lower sugar, non-fat flavored milk!

Somehow he and I got to chatting about flavored milk, and Justin summed up beautifully my overall feeling about Jamie Oliver's crusade:

2) I think our bodies metabolize sugar delivered in a liquid form (flavored milk, juice, soda) more quickly than when it is in solid foods.

For instance, the lead writer on the American Heart Association's statement on added sugars and children is the same Rachel K. Johnson who wrote all the papers the dairy industry cites as grounds for supporting flavored milk in school, the same former dean of the ag school in Vermont who describes herself as an advisor to Big Dairy.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

Deasy agreed that flavored milk (which Oliver has particularly vilified) is a bad thing to serve schoolkids, and said that he will recommend its ban to the board of education by July.

If the «flavor» in flavored milk is natural, non-artificial, I wouldn't have much problem with it (except sugar).

By high school, we were offered low fat milk in addition to whole but I don't recall flavored milk ever being offered.

I also raised the possibility of a middle ground solution, already instituted by some school districts, of lowering the sugar content and removing objectionable ingredients from flavored milk before banning it altogether, to the extent many parents and nutritional experts still want to see it in school lunch rooms.

Coincidentally, I'm just now finishing a post in which I revisit my earlier position reluctantly supporting flavored milk in schools.

E.g., one principal demanded that flavored milk no longer be served and the district agreed to set up a «pilot program» in her school for this purpose.

In the cafeteria of the school where I teach, the walls are covered in posters of celebrities and athletes drinking flavored milk.

Kate Adamick, a nationally recognized school food consultant who is an outspoken advocate of eliminating flavored milk from schools, both because of the hazards posed by added sugar in flavored milk and because it costs schools more to buy it, dismissed the study on the same grounds.

According to Lustig and other anti-sugar activists, the dangers of sugar in the form of fructose outweigh any calcium or vitamin D benefits children might get from drinking flavored milk.

Bottled water, low fat non flavored milk or even a small box of 100 % juice.

I also can not believe that you can't serve more than 12oz of fat free flavored milk, but you can serve a sugar - free Red Bull or low - carb Moster drink.

Ann Cooper, the «renegade lunch lady» who has eliminated flavored milk from two prominent school districts — Berkeley, Calif., and Boulder, Co. — has called flavored milk «soda in drag.»

The flavored milk «study» was first unveiled at the SNA's annual conference in Dallas July 13.

Of course, as an outspoken critic of flavored milk, I've been asked not to attend.

(He says flavored milk is still served in Baltimore schools, but eventually should become an occasional «treat,» not everyday fare.)

On its website, the SNA says the free «webinar,» entitled, «Keep Flavored Milk from Dropping Out of School,» is being offered «in partnership with the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP),» and that participants will «learn how to share» the study's findings.

Rebates help explain why kids in D.C. schools routinely are served sugary cereals such as Kellogg's Apple Jacks, and treats like Kellogg's Pop - Tarts, Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, Pepperidge Farm Giant Goldfish Grahams, and flavored milk from Cloverland Dairy that is nearly the sugar equivalent of Coke or Mountain Dew.

The industry is fighting efforts to remove flavored milk from school menus, saying kids will be in danger of not getting the calcium they need to build strong bones.

On the issue of flavored milk, many experts have suggested that if parents want their children to drink flavored milk, they certainly have the option of serving it to them at home, but that children in general should not be exposed to sugary milk products at school where there is no parental supervision.

I am a food service director in a small school in the adk's of ny and we haven't served flavored milk at all this year for the very reasons that you are stating.

Flavored milk is one of the few bright spots in this otherwise dismal picture.

Not only did milk consumption drop an average 35 percent when flavored milk was removed, it said, but kids drank 37 percent less milk even a year or more after the move to plain milk had taken place.

The flavored milk «study» being promoted by the School Nutrition Association was conducted by Prime Consultant Group, a major player in consumer analysis and sales strategies that lists among clients Coca - Cola, PepsiCo International, Kraft Foods / Nabisco, Sara Lee and Proctor & Gamble.

School officials in the District of Columbia recently decided without fanfare to discontinue serving flavored milk and sugary cereals, a move that has reverberated around the country.

My point is that this issue is not nearly as black or white as supporters on either side would have us believe; there are valid arguments to be made for eliminating flavored milk from school lunches and for continuing to offer that choice.

A «study» commissioned last year by the dairy industry, and performed by a company that conducts marketing research for corporate food clients, suggested that 35 percent fewer elementary school students drank milk when flavored milk was removed from the cafeteria.

But the dairy industry has spent millions of dollars promoting sugary flavored milk in schools based on the idea that children are threatened with a «calcium crisis.»

And while many restaurants have laudably shifted away from offering soda as the default beverage in children's meals, the researchers noted that soda is often replaced by other sugar - sweetened beverages such as flavored milk, sweetened teas and sports drinks.

I would much rather my son choose flavored milk than soda and some other packed lunch choices.

Her eldest, now 10, won't touch the stuff — and the youngest, at age 5, only drinks flavored milk.

Schools account for more than 7 percent of total milk sales in the United States, but more than half of all flavored milk.

Chocolate and other flavored milk?

However, the secretary's intent to halt planned reductions in the amount of salt in student meals and to allow schools to serve more flavored milk with added sugar and fewer heart - healthy whole grains raised widespread concern among nutrition experts and parents.

The catch is that when schools remove flavored milk, students drink less milk.

It's tiring to have to keep explaining that the pizza now has a whole grain crust, the cheese is likely low fat, and that the flavored milk is all non-fat.»

I am always listening to parents complain that school lunches aren't any better than they used to be because it's still pizza, macaroni and cheese, and flavored milk.

Haley Morris, inspired by a book about a young activist, had gathered petition signatures asking for the return of flavored milk.

Where flavored milk is concerned, parents need to stand up against it and the dairy industry that is trying to scare schools into serving it.