Milk, filled with calcium and vitamin D, may help children grow into strong healthy adults, but many won’t touch it without adding chocolate syrup. A blog on the New Yorker Web site asked New Yorker Food Issue contributors if adding chocolate cancelled the health benefits of milk, or if it is a necessary incentive to get kids to consume nutrients. Mimi Sheraton said the chocolate is OK because otherwise children may not get the much-needed calcium and vitamin D from the milk. She suggested using high-quality, low-sugar chocolate syrup in lowfat milk. She added chocolate may even add benefits, as recent studies have shown its ability to increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and reduce inflammation.
While the other contributors gave jokes for answers (Raffi Khatchadourian spoke about genetically engineered cows that produce chocolate milk from their udders; and John Colapinto said he didn’t want his son to drink chocolate milk or even eat sandwiches because of their negative health benefits), the article brings up a good point about how a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Or, in this era of childhood obesity and kids who experience adult disease, should we skip the sugar and try to give only the medicine?
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