Flavored Milk Contains as Much Sugar as Soda

WTF? I never even knew about these things, until I researched them just now. I feel stupid because I even pride myself in taking the time to read labels and like to keep educated about what I put into my body. I used to LOVE chocolate milk...or even remember making strawberry milk from the container with the loveable bunny character on it. QUIK! Ugh, I can't believe my parents let me drink that stuff.

I am constantly amazed (but not in a good way) at how bad our food is. I don't know if it's just america, or if it's a worldwide epidemic but it's seriously gotta stop. I mean, no one is really forcing all that sugar down our throats but when we make decisions from what's in front of us no one questions it.



Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution went to Huntington, W.V., one of America's unhealthiest cities. This year, he was off to one of its largest. Once there, he met resistance at just about every corner. In an attempt to shock them, he decided to turn his attention to the flavored milk available in the school. While the perception is that this is a healthier alternative, it actually contains as much sugar as soda. So he set up a dramatic demonstration.

He dumped a week's worth of sugar onto and into a school bus. Unfortunately, only about 25 people showed up for the presentation, but a revolution can start with just a few.

"Yeah, I'm trying to make it dramatic because I want people to care, and at the moment it's just us," Jamie said to the crowd. The lack of concern in the area was very disconcerting to him in this premiere episode, but he's not done fighting for the kids and people of Los Angeles.

Flavored milk sounds like it'd be a better choice than say a Pepsi, but really it has around 31 GRAMS of sugar in it. From now on, I think we should petition to change our nutrition labels to look like actual visual representations of mounds of sugar or whatever else is in the product that we're buying. Man, is this what I'm missing out on when I refuse to watch mainstream television? Kudos to ABC for actually showing some pertinent programming past "The Bachelorette" and "Cougartown". =P

View more full episodes of Food Revolution with Jamie Oliver on Hulu.

Pink Slime For School Lunch

Eww, I could have sworn I've seen a similar picture when looking into what McDonald's chicken nuggets were made of. This is why you need to know where your food comes from. If a big picture of this hung up in the cafeteria at school, do you think your kids would still be stuffing that burger in their mouths?

A mental picture of this, always comes to mind when I'm tempted to go through the drive-thru and indulge in some deep fried tasty nugget goodness....or what I used to think was deep fried tasty nugget goodness....Uggh, it's enough to want to make me vomit in my purse.

Pink slime -- that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade -- may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in by the tons for the nation's school lunch program.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is purchasing 7 million pounds of the "slime" for school lunches, The Daily reports. Officially termed "Lean Beef Trimmings," the product is a ground-up combination of beef scraps, cow connective tissues and other beef trimmings that are treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill pathogens like salmonella and E. coli. It's then blended into traditional meat products like ground beef and hamburger patties.

A public outcry against the "slime" is led perhaps most prominently by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who had also successfully waged war against flavored milk in Los Angeles schools and continues a crusade for healthier school lunches.

Read the full article on Huffington Post.