If your kids hate apples, should you feed them apple pie?
What a great line! Credit goes to Ann Cooper of Chef Ann, and it was included in the New York Times’ recent piece on the controversy surrounding schools and chocolate milk.
You know where I stand.
Chocolate milk’s a liquid chocolate bar and should be consumed as a treat, not as a staple.
The “milk’s got magical nutrients that make the calories and added sugars not scary” camp thinks that calcium and vitamin D are so important and kids are in such dire bone straits that they need to be coerced by sugar into drinking a beverage that us adults used to drink without a fight (probably because chocolate milk wasn’t an option).
What boggles my mind is that despite the terrifying growth of childhood obesity and the absence of any robust, credible, tangible, evidence based long term negative consequence to kids not drinking huge amounts of milk (let alone chocolate milk), it seems that my camp’s the minority.
I read an article last week about pushing milk hard in the Hamilton Spectator. Read the full article…