School Officials Propose Ban of Whole Milk

Cartons of whole milk would be considered junk food, but baked Cheetos would not, under new rules proposed Friday by Illinois education officials.

The State Board of Education proposed the rules after Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked for a junk food ban in elementary and middle schools.

The new rules focus on the nutritional content of foods rather than broad categories of food.

Because of that, the proposed guidelines would allow 1 ounce bags of baked potato chips, even though all chips are now banned under the board's current definition of junk food. Whole milk would also be banned because of its high fat content, school officials said.



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This year, they are switching from 2% to 1.5%.

walk around your local elementary school right before school starts and see how many kids are eating cheetos, regular
or flaming hot kinds. that's what they get for breakfast from their loving parents.

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whole milk tastes better than baked (aka eww) chips anyway, therefore it must be worse for you. And really, 2% is just as good..

if the average American started eating healthy.

I was horrified and shocked when I saw what my girlfriends kids ate at school, esp the food served at school. 99% unhealthy crappy food like pizza, hamburgers etc. I said stop and totally changed their diet and it wasn't anything drastic, just got rid of the crap from school and sendt nutritionakl food with the kids to school rather than buying expensive shit at school. If I had even brought something like that to school, it would have been taken away from me and thrown away.

Like one school in the New York area who totally revised their diet and got rid of all sugar based empty calory crap, the result was higher grades, less problems in class and in general.

Serving kids in school all that unhealthy food is child abuse and should be treated as such.

who actually drinks whole milk. Most people drink 2%, 1%, or skim, and decisions about which kind to drink seem to be made mostly on what tastes good (i.e. what they're used to). I don't think I've ever even tasted whole milk, and have no desire to.

Anything less than that is skim! I tell people that if they want lowfat milk so bad they should mix whole milk with water!

about 50 years ago grew up on whole milk.

My father used to love to eat straight butter, and enjoyed real cream off the top of the milk with his coffee. He died at 89, and not of heart disease. My mom died at 94, not of heart disease.

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately - heart disease and diabetes were a lot more rare in the earlier parts of the last century. Millions of people in the 1700s to 1900s ate bacon, eggs, whole milk, bread, butter, pork, and they didn't die of heart disease. More common causes of death were things like pneumonia, tuberculosis, other infectious diseases, and accidents. One really has to wonder if whole milk (and other foods we have been told to avoid) has too much fat or whether problems are coming from elsewhere - like processing food to death and adding who knows what to it.

Come to think of it, I never had to fight my weight until I gave up all those good foods to try to stay healthy. It seems the things we eat now don't fill you up. An 8-ounce glass of whole milk would fill a kids stomach better than 4 or 5 bags of low-fat potato chips and give him a lot more nutritional value. There's gotta be a reason it takes more calories to fill you up now than it did 100 years ago.

Edit: I'm just kinda thinking and typing this, so no way is it any kind of "proof" - just some personal observation.

My grandmothers, who died at 96 and 98, consumed huge amounts of dairy, nothing "fat-reduced" or "slim", their entire lives. But they stayed active physically. Maybe a lesson there.

people back in "the olden days" used to eat like horses- but they also worked like horses. My relatives were farmers and worked HARD and ate food with (gasp!) fat and carbs and all that "bad" stuff. Some got a little fat (you can be fit and fat) once they reached around 70+ years old, but they all lived past 80 at least.

In the presence of a diet of healthy, not processed foods, I think whole milk would be okay. I'd rather my kids have a glass of whole milk, fat and all, than something virtually fat-free with high fructose corn syrup. My kids drink 2% milk, but I'm not convinced that such sources of fat are evil.

I'm with you on this one. You look at the older generations who had fat from sources like meat and dairy and they tend to be healthier for more years, in my observation, than the people who eat diets of mostly low-fat but heavily processed foods.

"food activists" need psychological help and need to come clean with their "Jane" thinking.

is much more compatible and healthy for most people
same for goat and sheep cheese