Pro / Con: Should chocolate milk be allowed in schools?
Without it, strategies to replace the nutrients mean more calories are consumed. On the other hand, if only plain milk is offered, less sugar is consumed to begin with.When British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver visited an elementary school in America's "fattest" city, Huntington, W.Va., he saw the children tossing out fresh fruit in favor of processed chicken nuggets and chowing down on egg pizza for breakfast. But it was the sugar-laden chocolate milk that would stick in his mind, as he recounted this year in a speech he gave when receiving a TED Prize. "It epitomizes the trouble we're in, guys," said the star of ABC's "Food Revolution," a show that promoted healthy eating in public schools. "In that [milk] is nearly as much sugar as your favorite cans of fizzy pop."