Tiffany utilized a "Come and Take It" sign while introducing an amendment that would ensure children retain "access to delicious and nutritious" flavored milks.
not healthy options, especially for children. Full stop
I think you’re making this far more black and white than it needs to be. Fruit juice and sweetened milk can easily be part of a very healthy diet. Unless you’re a professional athlete, no one is watching their diet close enough for 8-12oz of juice to be an issue.
We’re not talking about adults, though, athletic or otherwise. We’re talking about children, and having a healthier diet in childhood gives better health outcomes as adults (e.g. forming good eating habits).
Having juice or sweetened milk on a regular basis trains your body to crave it and affects your gut health negatively. Additionally, and this is anecdotal, I can’t imagine it’s helping anyone’s behavior in school.
And as far as “diet watching” goes, take a look at European school lunches; generally far healthier and more well-rounded than what we find in the US, all because they give a fuck what their kids eat. Plus, I can assure you many parents are watching their kids’ diets as much as they can.
Schools shouldn’t be confounding the health efforts of parents. This is just shilling for the dairy industry disguised as lawmaking, plain and simple.
Seems like to make any kind of sense we’d have to accurately define “healthy”. Foods are healthy or unhealthy in context for the most part.
Is chocolate milk “unhealthy” compared to water? Depends what you’re looking for, it has added sugar but also provides solid macros and decent amounts of vitamins.
Sure, and I agree with your premise, but at that point, why not just drink plain milk? The added sugar is superfluous on top of the lactose (plus, we haven’t even covered the extra processing of the chocolate or artificial flavors that are all too common in American prepackaged foods).
But whatever the case, the politician making this “stand” isn’t doing it because he wants to ensure kids get the macros they need; he’s in the pocket of dairy lobbyists.
I think you’re making this far more black and white than it needs to be. Fruit juice and sweetened milk can easily be part of a very healthy diet. Unless you’re a professional athlete, no one is watching their diet close enough for 8-12oz of juice to be an issue.
We’re not talking about adults, though, athletic or otherwise. We’re talking about children, and having a healthier diet in childhood gives better health outcomes as adults (e.g. forming good eating habits).
Having juice or sweetened milk on a regular basis trains your body to crave it and affects your gut health negatively. Additionally, and this is anecdotal, I can’t imagine it’s helping anyone’s behavior in school.
And as far as “diet watching” goes, take a look at European school lunches; generally far healthier and more well-rounded than what we find in the US, all because they give a fuck what their kids eat. Plus, I can assure you many parents are watching their kids’ diets as much as they can.
Schools shouldn’t be confounding the health efforts of parents. This is just shilling for the dairy industry disguised as lawmaking, plain and simple.
Seems like to make any kind of sense we’d have to accurately define “healthy”. Foods are healthy or unhealthy in context for the most part.
Is chocolate milk “unhealthy” compared to water? Depends what you’re looking for, it has added sugar but also provides solid macros and decent amounts of vitamins.
Sure, and I agree with your premise, but at that point, why not just drink plain milk? The added sugar is superfluous on top of the lactose (plus, we haven’t even covered the extra processing of the chocolate or artificial flavors that are all too common in American prepackaged foods).
But whatever the case, the politician making this “stand” isn’t doing it because he wants to ensure kids get the macros they need; he’s in the pocket of dairy lobbyists.