{"id":6591,"date":"2010-07-08T12:55:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2011-02-10T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:53:42","slug":"flavored-milk-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2010\/07\/08\/flavored-milk-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the flavored milk debate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"flavored milk banned in schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2010\/07\/08\/flavored-milk-debate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6592\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 3px solid black;\" title=\"flavored milk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/flavored-milk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>Every wonder how they flavor chocolate and strawberry milk?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Sugar. Lots of it.<\/p>\n<p>A recent decision in Washington D.C. schools to ban flavored milk and sugary cereals from the cafeterias this fall is resulting in cheers from health conscious people. \u00a0Here&#8217;s to hoping that other schools will follow their lead.<\/p>\n<p>from <em><strong>Mother Nature Network<\/strong>:<\/em><br \/>\nThe move will affect the sales of chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk, as well as sugary cereals such as Apple Jacks, Raisin Bran and chocolate-flavored Little Bite Mini-Wheats.<br \/>\n<a title=\"healthy school lunches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/raising-a-family\/blogs\/dc-schools-ban-flavored-milk?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Lighterfootstep+(Lighter+Footstep)\">&lt;&lt; Full story: D.C. schools to ban flavored milk &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The argument has always been that kids will drink more milk if it tastes good. Maybe its time we limit their choices and see what happens. It is a fact that the less sugar you eat, the less you crave. Fingers crossed that this brings kids one step closer to being healthy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fit Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"flavored milk debate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/article1099902.ece\">Florida considered removing flavored milk from school menus &#8211; TampaBay.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"flavored milk debate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rodale.com\/flavored-milk-and-school-lunch-programs\">The Milk Debate Rages On &#8211; Rodale.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"free health and fitness tips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\">WithAmyMac.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every wonder how they flavor chocolate and strawberry milk? Answer: Sugar. Lots of it. A recent decision in Washington D.C. schools to ban flavored milk and sugary cereals from the cafeterias this fall is resulting in cheers from health conscious people. \u00a0Here&#8217;s to hoping that other schools will follow their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,711,23,991,993,992,209,996,994,995,21],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-fit-life","tag-flavored-milk","tag-flavored-milk-debate","tag-flavored-milk-in-schools","tag-healthy-eating","tag-healthy-school-lunches","tag-milk","tag-nutrition-information-milk","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}