The latest battleground against childhood fatties is being fought over chocolate milk. One 8-oz. serving of reduced-fat chocolate milk has nearly as many calories and sugar as a 12-oz. can of Coke. Encouraging students to regularly consume the drink, they say, is contributing to an already worrying childhood obesity crisis.
While milk has been the keystone of America’s school lunches since the federally subsidized program was established in 1946, the role of chocolate (and other flavored) milk has become a focus of late following a 2006 rule that required schools to establish comprehensive “wellness programs.” Public school districts in Berkeley, Calif., and Boulder, Colo. — two of America’s more progressive towns — have removed the drink from their list of daily offerings, opting for low-fat, organic white milk instead. That’s a perfect way to force kids to shun milk completely, says the dairy industry.
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