Filed under: Company News , Healthcare I’m the first to harangue against chocolate milk marketed as a healthy choice for children. Call me if you want a rant on the terrible health risks associated with modern meat production . Need outrage about deceptively fattening movie theater popcorn ? I’m your woman. I’ve been known to send my children out of the house with a firm reminder never to accept the offer of fast-food hamburgers from strangers, or their own daddy. Hardee’s famous 2/3-pound Monster Thickburger is just the sort of delicacy someone like me might fear: It’s made of two 1/3-pound beef patties, four strips of bacon and three slices of American cheese on a mayonnaise-coated sesame seed bun. It weighs in at 1,420 calories and 43 grams of saturated fat — more than double the daily recommendation for an adult. It’s obscene. But do I think we need to be protected from Hardee’s Monster Thickburger and other foods of its ilk? Continue reading Do ginormous fast-food helpings need warning labels? Nope Do ginormous fast-food helpings need warning labels? Nope originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Company News When it comes to comfort foods, chocolate milk ranks right up there with pizza and mac n’ cheese. But a campaign to market the sweetened milk as a healthy choice for kids is leaving parent groups anything but comforted. As we know, sugar may be a huge contributor to our obesity crisis and other chronic diseases. The American Heart Association in fact recently recommended children limit their intake of sugar to 16 grams a day. The association might, then, be surprised that pediatricians, dieticians, celebrities and a whole social media campaign are fighting the good fight for chocolate milk, calling it a healthy choice for kids. How much added sugar, you ask, does eight ounces of chocolate milk contain? Four teaspoons, 16 grams, making one serving the maximum a child should consume every day. Continue reading Got chocolate milk? Parent groups say no amid effort pushing it as ‘health food’ Got chocolate milk? Parent groups say no amid effort pushing it as ‘health food’ originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Got chocolate milk? Parent groups say no amid effort pushing it as ‘health food’