It’s your choice
Chocolate milk has not been a great significance in my life. I like the taste but I’m not one of those people who drink it everyday. However, if I were to choose between keeping chocolate milk on our school menu or erasing it from our school menu, I would choose to keep it because it is our choice on whether we want to drink it at school or not. We have an SAS card to buy things, and we have the power of our card to buy chocolate milk or not. I will be writing about the goods of chocolate milk, the bads of chocolate milk, and how it is our choice to buy chocolate milk or not.
Do you drink chocolate milk everyday? Well, if you do you're in for a little bit of luck. Chocolate milk is pretty healthy for you but don’t drink it every day! Drink it about twice or thrice a week and vala! That is your tiny bit of advice and your tiny bit of luck(don’t stop drinking it forever!). Here are some examples on how good it is for you. Firstly, chocolate milk has good nutrients, or as Ms.Dobbins(nutritionist) puts it, “the fact is, that chocolate and other flavoured milks have the same 9 essential nutrients as white milk.” I completely agree and I think that chocolate milk has good nutrients. This shows that there are the same essential nutrients as white milk and there is no difference between the different milks in nutrients. Wikipedia states that there is about 11% of calcium in chocolate milk, and in white milk there is about 12% of calcium in white milk. I now know that you don’t need to worry about the calcium. No worries about your health. I see that there is almost the same amount of calcium in chocolate milk compared to white milk so maybe it doesn’t really matter on health. Some people disagree saying that there is a very small percentage of nutrients in chocolate milk. I challenge this. I don’t think that there is a small percentage of nutrients in chocolate milk and that there is plenty of nutrients as my information above shows that there are loads of nutrients. Drinking the milk, still, in all of my facts above, my facts state that there is way more sugar and calories than vitamins.
Do you like chocolate milk? Do you love drinking it? Do you drink it every day? Well let me drizzle(not rain) on your parade. Chocolate milk is bad, bad, bad, sometimes! It adds extra sugar and calories! How bad is that? Well like I said earlier, don’t stop drinking it forever, just don’t drink it every day and you’ll be fine but here’s a few examples on how bad it is. In SAS’s chocolate milk we have 16 grams of sugar. Many children drink about 10 - 15 cartons of chocolate milk each week(by Chloe Baker - Australian investigator newscast reporter). According to my calculations this means that the children consume about 160 - 240 grams of sugar each week. This shows that there is way too much unnecessary sugar kids are getting each week. In addition there are 83 calories in a carton of chocolate milk, states the website Cola vs. Chocolate milk . This shows that chocolate milk has way too much sugar and is pretty unhealthy. This also shows that chocolate milk has a lot of calories that we should not consume. Chocolate milk has so very many calories, this tell me that chocolate milk is bad for you to drink. Critics argue that chocolate milk’s flavour is getting their kids to drink milk and it might have more vitamins than sugar and calories. While it might be true that there are more vitamins and better chance of kids
Are you sort of neutral after reading both of my paragraphs above. Well, not to worry, I completely agree and I think that chocolate milk is good and bad and it is your choice on whether you want to buy it or not. “Chocolate milk works as a treat at home.” (part of quote) quoted by the Renegade lunch lady. When I hear this phrase I think about how it’s our choice to have it as a treat at home, or to have it daily at school. This is makes me understand that it is our choice on whether to have it or not. westerndairyassociation says that chocolate milk is more than just flavour, it has nutrients, and myths about chocolate milk being unhealthy have triggered emotions. If it truly does have good nutrients and some rumours about it being unhealthy for you that are false and it is going around, maybe it is our choice to believe the rumours and not drink it or drink it feeling that it is healthy. I see that it is our choice on whether we want to drink it or not, if we think it has lots of nutrition or not. If we think it has too much sugar or not. It’s easy to think that chocolate milk is very bad or very good for your health but when you look at the facts on this paragraph you see that it is your choice to believe chocolate milk is bad or good for your health, whether you want to buy it or not.
Chocolate milk should be kept on our school menu so that we, students, can learn how to use our SAS card correctly and learn what items we are allowed to buy or not. Our parents can set rules on whether we should or shouldn’t buy chocolate milk. Sure chocolate milk can be unhealthy, and sure it can be healthy. May the force of chocolate milk be with you, and drink it if you want to, it’s up to YOU(quoted by Yoda).
Bibliography
“3 Reasons Schools Should Ban Chocolate Milk.” Life360. N.p., 2010. Web. 30 Apr. 2015. <https://www.life360.com/blog/reasons-to-ban-chocolate-milk/>
Gremont, Caron. “Got (Chocolate) Milk? What You Really Need To Know About the Battle in Our Schools.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caron-gremont/got-chocolate-milk-what-y_b_5194897.html>
“Cola vs Chocolate Milk - Google Search.” cola vs chocolate milk - Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2015. <https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=cola+vs+chocolate+milk&oq=cola&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59j0l4.4638j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=utf-8>
I also used to articles: Chocolate milk is more harmful than helpful
Nutrition in disguise
Chocolate milk is unhealthy but is cow’s milk too
