Chocolate milk has the same total sugar as a soft drink. Flavored milk has all kinds of “non-nutritive” additives.
Anyone else a little frustrated that the stuff is regularly served at school?
Sugar contributes to serious (and growing) health problems like obesity and type 2 diabetes. When schools feed kids sugary drinks, they’re teaching a bad lesson about nutrition.
Let’s join Jamie Oliver’s campaign to reduce flavored milk at school. Sign the petition, talk to your principal, and read more here.
I'm a writer and the mother of William and Fergus. Before dedicating my work to children's environmental health, I earned an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from New York University and was a photography editor at The New Yorker. My family is preparing to move to New Orleans, where my husband, an architect, is building us a non-toxic home.
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