Chocolate milk unhealthy?

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  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    No
  • Poisonedpawn78
    Poisonedpawn78 Posts: 1,145 Member
    Anyone who tries to demonize a specific food in isolation is a quack.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    OHFlamingo wrote: »
    I remember reading a study that kids will choose and drink the chocolate milk if both are offered; if given only the choice of white milk, the kids either didn't take the white milk, or threw it out without drinking it. Let them have their chocolate milk!

    This has been our experience. Mrs. Jruzer works part time in our school cafeteria, where chocolate milk is offered a few days per week. On those days the number of kids getting milk with lunch is noticeably larger than on non-chocolate milk days.

    Full disclosure: Wisconsin residents here, so dairy consumption just might be skewed compared to other locales
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    If you're allowing them calorific beverages, I don't see a substantive difference between milk, chocolate milk, and juice.

    Although My leaning is to discourage drinking calorific beverages. AKA, let them drink water.
  • WJS_jeepster
    WJS_jeepster Posts: 224 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »
    So I usually like Yoni Freedhoff's info and blog and read it semi-frequently. He's a big proponent of getting junk food out of schools which I can understand and sports drinks out of school sports but he's really against chocolate milk as well. Apparently he's not the only one. It just seemed a strange position but maybe it's just me? Was curious what others' thought was on the subject.


    There is more sugar and more calories in chocolate than plain milk. That does not mean it is unhealthy. The nutrients of the milk are still there.

    My dd has always hated plain milk. She will only drink a flavored milk. She has never been overweight or diabetic. Her teeth are fine. She has been underweight and needed more calories from things like whole milk. I don't see a reason not to give her flavored milk.

    My son is the same way. He was so underweight that his pediatrician recommended chocolate milk for the extra calories.
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