We've been warned about this since the at least the 80s maybe earlier. Then when it became more common (still not common I don't think) that the food pyramid is a sham it explained by school lunches when I was younger didn't usually seem all that balanced after I thought about it as an adult.

Couple that with cities that aren't designed to be walkable and its dangerous to bicycle and it just doesn't look good.

But hey, schools are probably going to get to serve chocolate, whole and 2% milk again due to winning arguments like "....fortifying nutrients of whole milk....Protein helps build and repair Santa’s muscles" and "...scientists, experts built the Titanic, and amateurs built the ark." So, that'll help, right?

[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Chocolate milk is the least of the problems. And whole milk should be served because fat is fine for you and 2% and skim just replace the fat with sugar for the taste.

But milk is pretty much inconsequential. There are so many other issues like you mentioned. Zero city walkability, poor nutritional education, food is rarely made fresh and with high quality ingredients, we have too many preservatives, too much sugar, and too many chemicals.

It won't get better until we fix so many issues.

[–] catfish@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In which countries is sugar added to skimmed milk? It is not in Sweden - skimmed and semi-skimmed are purely the result of removing fat from whole milk.

[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

The united states. Our sugar industry lobbied hard for the government to tell everyone that fat is bad for you and funded false studies saying so.

So low-fat and fat-free foods became the norm and to make up for the lack of flavor, companies added loads of sugar to everything and got people addicted to it.

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