The beginning of this week's Farm Side is about apples. It is after all, time to pick and eat NY finest fruit delight...and this is where we bought some Honeycrisp yesterday. I am going to have a nice apple snack for breakfast today....
The middle of my weekly thousand word quota is about China dropping some of their retaliatory tariffs on soybeans and pork,
The rest is about the proposed NYC ban on flavored milk. Why is it that authorities in big cities are so often way behind on current dietary research? When it comes to getting off the fad diet bandwagon and actually reading current research they are frequently much less well informed than people who are closer to the land and their roots.
It's not like it's hard to find research from all over the world that concludes that flavored milk increases milk consumption (sooprise, sooprise) which results in higher intakes of vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats, not to mention more energy.
From the USDA
From Australia
From ENVIRON International Corp
Milk beats traditional sports beverages as a recovery drink too.
There are plenty more studies of similar ilk and none of them are hard to find. At least one upstate legislator is on this like a JRT on a racing rat.
Assemblyman Brindisi
And NY Farm Bureau has addressed it as well. I hope the Big Apple Dept. of Ed reconsiders and continues to serve chocolate milk and maybe adds tasty NY apples as well.
Authorities in big cities seem woefully ignorant of many things.
ReplyDeleteSo, I could buy a half gallon of chocolate milk and be happier all the time? Have you thought of running for President? We could all use some common sense in government. But until then, do keep me abreast of the current wave of returning to what was wonderful on the table my mother set. Chocolate milk, all I have to find is the one that doesn't add sugar.
ReplyDeleteJan, alas, I had noticed that too.
ReplyDeleteEarl, I delight in fine science that tells us the same things our grandmothers did.
I'm with Jan...and I could add in authorities is small towns and villages are right there in the ignorant department.
ReplyDeleteLinda, that is for sure!
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