LAUSD para quitar el chocolate, leche de fresa de las escuelas, superintendente dice

During an appearance with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, LAUSD Supt. John Deasy says the Los Angeles school system will stop offering high-sugar chocolate and strawberry milk.

By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times

De abril 28, 2011

Los Angeles schools will remove high-sugar chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk from their lunch and breakfast menus after food activists campaigned for the change, LA. schools Supt. John Deasy announced this week.

Deasy revealed his intent, which will require approval by the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education, during an appearance with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Tuesday night.

The policy change is part of a carefully negotiated happy ending between the Los Angeles Unified School District and Oliver. Enfrentamientos del chef con el sistema escolar se convirtió en un tema central en la actual temporada del reality show de TV “Revolución de la Alimentación de Jamie Oliver.”

El momento de la sanción de la leche con sabor, que había estado bajo consideración desde hace tiempo, Oliver dio un resultado positivo y permitido sistema escolar de segundo más grande del país para escapar de papel del villano. Deasy rápidamente alertó a la junta escolar para el acuerdo antes de acudir a la televisión.

En los primeros episodios, El show de Oliver había presentado el ex Superintendente. Ramón Cortines y miembros del consejo escolar con documentos sonoros poco favorecedoras y ángulos de cámara. Pero con Deasy, el chef británico efusivamente que él había inscribir a su propio hijo en Los Ángeles. escuelas públicas, si tenía una aquí.

LA. Unified llevado a la nación en los esfuerzos para prohibir refrigerios de comida chatarra y refrescos, but its meals could be healthier, despite exceeding federal standards.

“A popular breakfast offering of Frosted Flakes doused in chocolate milk with a side of coffee cake and a carton of orange juice contains 51 grams of added sugar (o 79 grams of total sugar counting those that occur naturally in the milk and the juice),” wrote USC school-nutrition experts Emily Ventura and Michael Goran in a recent Los Angeles Times editorial. A 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola contains 39 grams of sugar, they noted.

Food activist Matthew Sharp called the impending ban, which would take effect in the next school year, “an important teaching tool for students to wean off the sweet tooth” that again puts L.A. Unified among national leaders in nutrition.

The high-sugar chocolate milk has been banned in other districts across the country, including Fairfax County in Virginia and Washington, D.C..

Other steps to improve school food in Los Angeles could include swapping out burgers in favor of sandwiches and offering pasta and soup rather than chicken nuggets, said Sharp of the nonprofit California Food Policy Advocates.

Healthier offerings could cost more, sin embargo, and prove less popular, jeopardizing federal funding if student consumption drops. That same concern holds with eliminating flavored milk, although the menu change itself will have no added cost.

Sobre 75% of milk sold is flavored, Oliver noted on the Kimmel show.

Sharp said he anticipated a slight, temporary drop in milk consumption. Pero, añadió, “it’s a little tough to know how the real audience of students will react.”

Fuente: LA Times