I'm a junior in a Kentucky high school. Usually at lunch, we have a choice between 8 oz bottles of chocolate or white milk, or 20 oz bottles of Aquafina water. Today, however, the school informed us that because of a Federal law, they were no longer allowed to serve water in the free lunch program because it has no nutritional value. [It seems to me that since a majority of the human body consists of water, it would be rather important to keep it in our diets =S but i guess i don't know what i'm talking about!] I have friends that are lactose intolerant, so they had to go without anything to drink at lunch today. Then, after lunch was over, we were informed that those who could not drink milk for whatever reasons would have the opportunity to buy a water at lunch. Does anyone have any information about this? Is it a new law, or one that has simply been made stricter, to include even water? Thanks for any information you're able to give =)
-Cassandra
2006-10-30 07:56:36 · 6 answers · asked by wind_blow_shame 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Needless to say i wasn't the only one wondering! I went with a group of people to the principal's office to ask, and we were told that the school itself cannot control it, because it is a Federal law. I looked it up on the internet, and it does say that foods of minimal nutritional value will not be served. . . I would never have imagined they would define water as having no nutritional value! I suppose they're being technical about it. Water does not have any nutritional value in it's natural state, but replacing water with foods high in BAD things [like chocolate milk] doesn't quite make sense to me. It's like when they first took non-diet pops away from our school - they still served a sausage and buscuit packs that had well over the same amount of calories as a pop >.<; I guess whatever makes them happy, they'll do it. I just wish we [the students] had more say in what happens.
2006-10-30 08:15:59 · update #1
Yes, milk has more nutritional value as it contains good amount of minerals and vitamins, especially calcium which is important for young people. It is definitely more filling than water. So it is a good form of water intake and good replacement of water.
However, it does not make any sense for the replacement (even if the water lack the nutritional factor). By doing so, the system will give the young the wrong impression that water if not vital for our body.
Food must be taken in moderation. Too much of everything is not necessary good for the body. NOt to forget,water is actually zero calories as compared to Milk. ie too much full cream milk might just make you FAT!!! and
Chocolate full cream will provide more calories than a plain Full cream Milk.
And everyone should be given the option to choose what they eat or drink. Right???
2006-10-30 13:49:03 · answer #1 · answered by cheesecake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I can understand their stance on serving foods with nutritional value water is an important part of our lives. While it has no nutritional values listed it has a lot of value when it comes to how we metabolize our food, keep off water gain and remain fuller during the day. We can go without food for a month but we can not go much past 3 or 4 days without water or we would die.
2006-10-30 16:15:05 · answer #2 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the public school system has been destroyed by idiots. not that long ago here in florida they tried to get rid of the custodial budget and make teachers clean the bathrooms. as kids you still have rights -- try to arrange peaceful boycotts. the best you could do is have parents complain to the district politicians. usually every school district has a building somewhere full of administrators that do nothing but things like take away your water. administrators never like it when you go over their heads because they think they rule the universe.
2006-10-30 16:08:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At my school we've always had to buy our water;; but their is no law against water to my knowledge;; and you make a very good point when you say that the human body is mostly water;; I would bring it up with the school board;;
2006-10-30 16:02:53 · answer #4 · answered by La_la 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have anything useful to tell you about the law but I will say that I 100% agree with you! To take water away is the dumbest thing to do!
2006-10-30 16:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by the_pharaoh109 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you 100%.
Hard to believe that chocolate milk has a higher nutrituiional value than water.
2006-10-30 16:02:57 · answer #6 · answered by Cerebal 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋