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A milk war has emerged - and the NYC public school system is the battleground. There's a great article about whole milk being taken off the cafeteria menu in city public schools, in order to fight childhood obesity and diabetes. The situation is a tempest: The American Dairy Association is upset, there's also the byzantine issue of federal subsidies for lunch programs, and the chocolate skim milk issue (kids love chocolate!). Schools will offer low-fat and skim milk - with some schools still serving chocolate skim milk - and so far, milk drinking is down 15% at schools with no skim chocolate milk and down 5% at skim-chocolate schools. Hmm, maybe school officials should look into covering green vegetables with a little mole sauce. Anyway, as we love hearing what kids think, Gothamist loved this part of the story:
In an effort to improve nutrition last year, the city schools briefly offered skim milk in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, but officials decided to keep only chocolate. Jose Baez, 10, a fourth grader at P.S. 28, which now serves chocolate milk only on Fridays, said that he loved the new low-fat milk, but that some classmates were upset. "They said, 'Oh, my God, they took away the chocolate milk and the strawberry milk,' " Jose said. "They started complaining."Gothamist drinks skim milk - but we will splurge with the whole for coffee or other overpriced coffee drinks. We're a fan of SkimPlus because it's creamier, has more calcium (you need your calcium, ladies) and has more forgiving expiration dates (how, we don't want to know). Do you drink skim, low-fat or whole milk? And if you were a kid, would you be upset?
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I can't really drink milk b/c of mild lactose-intolerance, but I have whole with my cereal and 1/2 and 1/2 with my coffee. Skim in coffee totally disgusts me.
whole milk for cappuccinos and such, 1% for everything else
I think they should serve Patrick Farm milk in the schools. :-)
They need to stop blaming food for obesity and target inactivity. I like whole milk myself. Heck, I drink half & half at times. Still coming in with a BMI of 23.2. Absolutely nothing wrong with my arter... urk... ow... help... (thud)
Whole milk all the way--I'd drink it straight from the cow if I could. None of that watered-down crap for me. Creamy deliciousness!
I grew up with whole milk, as did my siblings, and we're all healthy. As others pointed out, delicious fatty milk is not the problem. Inactivity and easy access to crapola foods are the problem.
Skim milk, by the way, has a blue-ish tint to my eyes. Reminds me of the contaminated milk in The Jungle. Gross.
For the lactose-intolerant: Lactaid is the way to go (and it comes in whole and 2% flavors, yay!). It's real milk, just a wee bit sweeter.
Lactaid 1% all the way.
I drink Lactaid skim. The husband drinks low-fat organic. There is a low-fact, lactose-free organic milk but I can rarely find it near where I live.
Humans should not be drinking cow's milk. There are other ways to get calcium.
I grew up drinking whole milk and was never overweight; however, I was active and ate fresh foods and lean meats--very little crap.
Over the past year I've stepped down from whole milk to skim. Although I still prefer whole milk in my tea and coffee, I can tolerate skim milk if it is very cold.
different anonymous:
Humans aren't meant to eat Twinkies either, but then again here we are.
Wow I am surprised by the lack of skim fans. Skim skim skim all the way at home, though I don't bother at Straybucks.
Skim or Soy milk all the way. I went to public schools and my only two options were whole milk or chocolate whole milk. I always found whole milk way too filling.
I use skim most of the time, although I like whole in my coffee.
Otherwise, the taste of milk has always skeeved me out. Flavored milk is/was the only way I could get it down. That being said, I still thought the choco milk at school tasted gross. I think I opted for apple juice or something.
I love skim milk - especially with cookies - but maybe that's because I drink a lot of water (I wouldn't drink SkimPlus if it weren't for the calcium). When my family visits me, the fridge gets whole and 2% milk, plus some half-and-half for my parents' coffee.
Dude - it's not like I'm swiggin' down the milk in my cereal! I'd be in trouble if I did. I don't think skim/whole milk is any worse than the other for lactose intolerance. That's not been my experience at least.
Ditto on the bluish cast of skim milk, C. Shiver.
Due to a brief stint with veganism, I will never buy real milk for personal use again, barring the occasional pint for special cooking/baking projects. The idea of drinking a glass of milk is analagous to that of cold slamming a stick of butter--it just seems weird. But even before that, I was a skim milk dude, all the way. However, I will put milk--even cream--in a drink. It's just the straight milk in a glass or on cereal that makes me feel gnar.
When I want skim milk, I usually just turn on the sink.
1% all the way. It has some taste and substance.
fats kids need to both put down the chalupa and drink skim milk.
personally i think whole milk tastes like liquified butter. so hooray for skim, even in coffee.
"Different anonymous" is correct. Milk is bad for you; cows' milk is for baby cows and that's it. The majority of the world's population is lactose intolerant. Milk causes diabetes, allergies, Crohn's Disease, and a pile of mucus. The calcium in milk is useless to our bodies because it's paired with excessive protein that leaches the calcium right out of our bones. Where do you think cows get their calcium? PLANTS.
The dairy industry is every bit as evil as the tobacco companies and nobody even knows it...
You want to cure childhood obesity? Get kids to drink a glass of water for once.
I hear you d. I myself prefer 100% cambodian breast milk.
Its Nutritious and Delicious!
If they want to get rid of obesity and diabetes, they should focus on getting rid of thier disgusting fat-inducing lunches and toss the Coke & Snapple vending machines. Milk is the least of their problems.
I used to drink skim, before I replaced it with soy milk.
Now I've replaced all milk and dairy food stuffs with energy drinks.
Milk in my coffee? Naah, no thanks. Sparks in my coffee? Hell yeah.
Vanilla flavored Soy milk for me.
Are they cutting out the Pizza and Potato Chips too??
They should leave good ole milk alone (fat content, schmontent)...lets talk about the faux fried crap that they chow on! Milk, even whole milk is probably one of the healthiest things there!
whole milk is the only way to go... except for half and half in the coffee of course!
how about we just feed our kids right and have them exercise instead of sitting on the couch playing video games!
Ugh, half and half in coffee just tastes like someone brewed your joe with cream cheese. :P
2% for me. Skim just doesn't taste like milk.
Defintely agree with the folks who say that changing the milk isn't going to do much. Its the junk food, sodas, pizzas, burgers, etc that are the real problem. That's where the changes are needed.
skim milk tastes like 1 part milk 3 parts water. if thats your take on milk iam sorry! i'd take my milk right out of the cow if i could! you probably like the taste of most diet products too. F U C K that! the real problem here is people just need to think and grow thin! exercise that body kids! and for all vegan's knocking dairy...what out there's proof now that your baby boy might be born without cahones. but i guess thats happening already to a few boys on bedford ave. oh, yea speaking of bedford, i once had a cup of joe with soy milk and vomited on bedford ave. all the way home to s. 6th st.
peace!
Don't forget that "whole" milk isn't "real" milk. It's milk that's been processed, pasteurized, homogenized and had milk solids removed. If you want the real thing, brands like Patrick Farms are the only way to go. Although I still prefer to chug light cream. Ah, the good, old days, when you'd get that nice gob of milk fat to lick off the bottom of the milk bottle cap. You youngsters don't know what you're missing.
Skim milk and low-fat milk have an additive in it (palmitate). Whole milk has only one ingredient: milk.
I'm a Carb Countdown girl myself. It's not even called milk, it's a "dairy beverage." Delicious.
I'm amazed at the relatively low number of vegans showing off their preference for soy or rice milk when this post is about the school board replacing whole milk with lowfat milk. I'm pleasantly surprised.
Fixing the excess of fat in the diet by targeting milk is like fixing the excess of sugar in the diet by targeting FRUIT. Can we perhaps widen our horizons a bit and look at all the real culprits of the issue (ie processed foods and snacks and soda)?
Whole milk is a delicious and healthy way for non-overweight children to get a reasonable amount of fat in their diet, but apparently they don't count because they're NORMAL.
I like skim milk in the summer and 2% in the winter. I never really go above 2%, the coating action of milk is a turn off especially in the summer.
I love skim. SKIM ME UP BITCHES! =)