Schools around the world serve chocolate milk, kids love it. On an australian newscast a young boy said “The only time I get chocolate milk is when I go to school,”. Some students can consume ten to fifteen cartons of chocolate milk a week. Chocolate milk is an out of control problem. Chocolate milk has a sky-high sugar content, reaching up to 209 calories per and reaching up to thirty grams of sugar. This amount of sugar is more than soda and parents don’t let kids drink pop every day so why chocolate milk. When kids drink chocolate milk every day they gain gallons of extra sugar each year. From drinking chocolate milk an average american child gain a lot of weight. For example, a man named Oliver decided to fill a school bus with 57 tons of sand and said “this represents the amount of sugar an average american child consumes each week. This can have a big affect on a child's life. …show more content…
In fact, 75% of milk offered to kids at school is flavored that's a lot of added sugar for nothing. The extra sugar in chocolate milk is changed into fat over night. Kids who drink chocolate milk often don’t drink regular milk or any other drink with a low sugar
While Europe and the United States account for most chocolate consumption, the confection is growing in popularity in Asia and market forecasts are optimistic about the prospects in China and India (Nieburg, 2013, para 9). According to the CNN Freedom Project, the chocolate industry rakes in $83 billion a year, surpassing the Gross Domestic Product of over a hundred nations (“Who consumes the most chocolate,” 2012, para 3). If chocolate continues grow popular in Asia, it stands to become even more lucrative.
Chocolate milk and a cafeteria don't go together like frosting on a cupcake, so don’t put them together. Schools should not serve chocolate milk to students. It’s easy to think that chocolate milk is just as healthy as white milk, but when you look at the facts, it is very clear that we should not serve chocolate milk in schools. It has been found that our bodies don’t need chocolate milk, there is too much sugar, and chocolate milk can cause illnesses and diseases. Chocolate milk should not be served in schools now or ever again.
Starting with the dark chocolate; this type of chocolate has a natural source of antioxidants. Then in 2008, Hershey began making chocolate with vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter (Hershey, n.d.). No milk chocolate is not a healthy snack but popping one in your mouth is only 25 calories (Sun-Sentinel, 2007). These improvements modified the chocolate recipe to attract more clientele (Hershey, n.d.).
Chocolate milk is a worldwide debate of whether it should be served in schools or be an at home treat. Many schools have already gotten rid of chocolate milk but what about Nickels Intermediate school. They should keep chocolate milk to keep kids on a beneficial and healthy diet. To begin with chocolate milk gives kids a nutritional drink. It also improves their diets by giving them a drink that will not later cause obesity. Finally kids enjoy the drink way more than white milk. Read on to explore the greatness of chocolate milk.
In 2013, about 7.4 million tons of chocolate is expected to be consumed globally, totaling to nearly $110 billion (Pardomuan, Nicholson). I can honestly say that I will be one of the many people who contribute immensely to those massive quantities. Chocolate has always been one of my guilty pleasures, leading me to consider myself a “chocoholic.” After 20 years of eating chocolate, I learned there is more to chocolate than meets the eye. Many chemicals compose each delicious piece creating multiple psychological effects on the mind. With the knowledge of the chemical and psychological influences that chocolate has on the human mind and body and my own curiosity as to why I love it so much, this led me to ask: Why is chocolate considered such a pleasurable and craveable food?
Fat and sugar are substances naturally craved by the body, and thus although they may play a role in the allure of chocolate, they cannot be responsible for its appeal over other sweets. The caffeine in chocolate is sometimes implicated as part of its addictive properties. However, the amount of caffeine contained in one ounce of chocolate is about 5-35 milligrams, compared to the 140 milligrams found in a cup of brewed coffee. This does not discount the idea that caffeine plays a role in the appeal of chocolate, more likely it compounds the effect of other components. (3).
The Sweet taste of chocolate milk has always gotten children to drink their milk, but is the added sugar in it making it unhealthy? The debate over whether flavored milk should be allowed in schools started when Jamie Oliver filled an entire school bus with white sand representing the amount of sugar children consumed in a week’s worth of chocolate milk. Parents are now concerned that the amount of added sugar in flavored milk is too much and should be banned, but nutritionists say that the nutritional value of milk outweighs the added sugar. Although there is as much added sugar in flavored milk as in soda, it offers more nutritional value than sugary drinks. Children don’t like the taste of regular chocolate milk and will not willingly
Milk is one of the most popular beverages in the United States with an average American drinking 20.4 gallons of it every year (“By the Numbers: What Americans Are Drinking”). For years we have seen and heard advertisements supporting the consumption of milk. We have been told that it “does a body good,” and we have been asked, “Got milk?” As children we were told that drinking milk helped to build strong bones, protect our teeth, and support a healthy weight. However, there is now scientific evidence that milk is not as healthy as we have been led to believe.
Chocolate milk has been served in school cafeterias for many years now, the added sugar inside of the carton has passed under the radar. Many nutritionists like Melissa Dobbins are blindsided by the vitamins, calcium, and protein claiming that this makes up for any added sugar. One carton of chocolate milk contains nearly 30 grams of sugar, more than a 7.5 fluid oz can of soda! This fact supports the claim that chocolate milk has way too much sugar. So now, because of all of that sugar, chocolate milk is detrimental to your health, causing health problems such as obesity.
They can burn off the extra sugar from the chocolate milk by exercising. More health problems will come from the loss of chocolate milk because of the loss of calcium in the students’ bodies. I think chocolate milk should stay because many people like chocolate milk. If the school gets rid of it, then many people will get disappointed. I think this would probably make the school have a drop in income from lunch since 16 out of 19 people in my class like chocolate milk and would care if it’s gone.
Nestle, discloses information on public policy, how the food industry is one of the largest and most powerful industries, making profits of $1.3 trillion dollars on an annual basis. The article covered information on school food as well as strategies for change. Change can only come with cooperation and unity. In the meantime, children can be introduced to healthy foods and taught about the consequences of junk food (processed foods). Nestle, M. (2002).
How do you see chocolate milk? As something that will make you gain 50 pounds, or a drink that gives you the same nutrients as white milk? You could gain 50 pounds... but really. That would take a lot of chocolate milk. Chocolate milk has its positives and negatives, but I think that there are more positives than negatives. I think that chocolate milk should be brought back to the school cafeteria. Some types of chocolate milk don't have that much sugar, many students would like to have it back, and, it has the same rich nutrients as white milk.
Chocolate is a kind of sweet. Moreover, most people in the world like to eat chocolate. Chocolate grows on the continental chocolate evergreen tree known as "cocoa" which produces seeds which people use to make different types of cocoa, including chocolate. This topic is important because around the world chocolate attracts many people and they cannot resist it and there are some people who are addicted to it, but they do not know what the advantages and the disadvantages of chocolate are. For example, one advantage of chocolate is many effects on vascular health such as improving blood pressure, and one disadvantage of chocolate is it has high saturated fat content. Most people in Qatar like and eat a lot of chocolate, but they do not know the advantages and disadvantages of chocolate. However, you must eat chocolate one or two times a day. The purpose of this report is to find out what people know about the advantages and disadvantages, and what is the healthiest type of chocolate.
...right in front of me, it is like torture. But, after researching about Kit Kat ( one of my favourite chocolate) for my project, not only that I found information of why it is something bad to eat it but it is also something child are forced to take parts in. Children in Burkina Fatso and Ghana were often smuggled across to Ivory Coast where they received no education; they will have to work in conditions where it is dangerous even to an adult. I find chocolate kind of scary now; they taste good bad they are made from the hands of a child. I hope I won’t hate chocolates for this.
In conclusion, many people around the world enjoy chocolate. Some are aware of the issues with human rights that occur in third world nations that are heavily involved with the production of cocoa into chocolate while others are not. Some people might even consume chocolate products despite the issues and controversies surrounding the chocolate industry. There are many possibilities to improve the chocolate industry as a whole such as organize it in a way so that everyone can benefits. However, it might not be in the best interest of those who make the greatest profits in the chocolate industry to make improvements, particularly those who are the worst off in the chocolate industry.