Chocolate Milk In Schools

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Chocolate milk is a bully, hurting kids in schools around the world. Shouldn’t we expel chocolate milk from our schools, kick it out of our cafeteria? Its easy to think chocolate milk is a cheap, nutritious, chocolate drink will fit all your needs, but when you look at the facts you see what the students are really drinking. As well, choclate milk can cause disease, has a sky high sugar rate, and you don’t only need to milk to get your 3 servings of dairy. We need to fight back at this bully before it really hurts us, chocolate milk is harmful not healthy.

One reason, our school should stop serving chocolate milk is because of the sugar content in chocolate milk. When you drink regular milk you drink 12 grams of sugar, but when you add the flavoring it can double the amount of sugar content. Making it a killer chocolate drink, and also turning 12 grams of sugar into 24-30 grams of sugar. Also as many people don’t know “there is 20% more sugar in chocolate milk than in coke,” says Chloe Baker, …show more content…

The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) states that “milk is high in cholesterol and saturated fat.” Why are we putting unhealthy food in our body when it doesn't help us very much? Even if you don’t drink milk, to get your 3 servings of dairy there is always cheese, yogurt, ice cream, cottage cheese, or even butter. These ways are smart, nutritious ways to add dairy to our body's and get the perfect amount are body needs, but taking away many of the sugars, we could have added. In addition, there are also other types of milk we can have if you do not want cow milk there are other milks like soy, rice, or almond milk. Almond milk is very nutritious it can help keep your heart healthy and intact, also making sure you bones stay strong, and always keeps digestion in check. Would you feed your kids something unhealthy when they don’t even need

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