Obesity Battle Turns Ridiculous

Chocolate milk in schools, is it a childhood nutrient booster or an obesity villain like food activists across the nation are trying to label it? In the war on obesity the movement to remove all sweetened drinks from public schools has taken a turn to the ridiculous and absurd. Most parents were not opposed when schools made the decision to eliminate sodas from their cafeterias, but now food activists are pushing to have flavored milk banned from schools as well. They insist that kids will drink whatever beverage choices are left to them. Reality check, children are picky eaters. Small containers of flavored milk, the preferred drink choice of over seventy percent of school age children is not the main culprit in childhood obesity, and at least offers kids an enjoyable way to get needed nutrients. Of course we could go back to how lunch times were when I was a child, food Nazis' in every corner just looking for an opportunity to pull a few ears and deny after lunch recess till you ate everything on your plate.