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Only on UB would parents argue about what is the BEST snack for kindergarten. Some of you are so limited in your thinking and trapped in your elitist worlds. Flame away!
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends Gogurt as a healthy snack alternative http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/nutrition/Making-It-Happen/pdf/support-materials.pdf
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why do you say that. what is in gogurt that you are so scared of? I don't get it. its just yougurt with flavoring like many others.
[ Reply | Options ]OMG. Yes, they are being funded by the Nat. High Fructose Association of America. Oh, and Elvis is their president. And their office is in Area 51. And they can see dead people. FWIW, there are portable yogurt snacks made with cane sugar that are perfectly fine as a snack. Plenty of calcium, which dcs in this country are sorely lacking according to the latest studies.
[ Reply | Options ]If your last sentence is true, it's because they knock back so much juice instead of milk. Also, the body doesn't assimilate much of the calcium contained in chocolate milk. My kids each have a big glass of organic skim or 1% milk with each meal and drink water when they're thirsty.
[ Reply | Options ]mine drinks water (not juice) but won't drink milk. our ped is thrilled he eats so much cheese and (horrors!) sweetened yogurt.
[ Reply | Options ]My daughter doesn't eat cheese or drink milk. Gets plenty of calcium from oj, tofu, certain vegetables, and *unsweetened* yogurt.
[ Reply | Options ]All these people claim their kids won't eat *unsweetened* yogurt, yet you KNOW the first yogurt the kids were given was sweetened! Food preference are formed very young, and if you condition your kid to expect yogurt and cereal and similar to be sweet, that's obviously what he'll prefer. It's not rocket science. Candy should NOT be disguised as real food!
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However, when the education department sent out the list of approved lunches and snacks to all the preschools last year, they put yogurts with high sugar counts on the DO NOT SEND list. Gogurt's sugar count is WELL above their maximum. Look, if you want to feed your kid easy crap rather than put a little effort into making a healthy diet appealing to him/her, go for it. Just stop expecting approval from those of us who care about what our kids eat.
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That's just plain stupid. The BEST school, the BEST teacher, whatever else is discussed here, is usually subjective. NUTRITION, however, is factual. Yes, there are bad, ok, good, better, and best snacks, based on actual testing data. If "elitist" means "I read labels and read articles that aren't funded by the food companies and actually care about my kid's health," then call me elitist. And I'll call you lazy, and feel sorry for your kid's future lifetime of Gogurt-inspired health issues.
[ Reply | Options ]DITTO. Nothing to argue about here. And I couldn't find the CDC ringing endorsement of Gogurt in that link someone repeatedly posted.
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Stop criticizing someone else's food choices. That's how this whole thing got started. If your child goes to a school where there is shared snack then expect snacks that you may not approve of. If it’s ok with the CDC then you are going to have a hard time banning it.
[ Reply | Options ]Why should I stop? If my kid has to eat what someone else chooses, I'm gonna criticize it if its garbage. Maybe after this discussion, there will be ONE parent out there who will think about it, and decide to bring something that isn't artificially colored/artificially flavored/full of corn syrup/full of trans fat/otherwise disgusting, instead of their original choice of Backyardigans Fruit Chews or something like that. These discussions are GOOD when its about something factual like nutrition.
[ Reply | Options ]Why? Facts are facts. Yoplait doesn't even put the ingredients lists for the following "healthy" Gogurt products on its website: Banana Split/ Strawberry Milkshake Cool Cotton Candy/Burstin' Melon Berry Strawberry Splash/ Berry Blue Blast Rad Raspberry/ Paradise Punch Strawberry Banana Burst/Watermelon Meltdown Strawberry Kiwi-Kick/Chill-Out Cherry Ro-Gurt Special Edition Shaggy's Like Cool Punch & Rawberry SpongeBob Special Edition Strawberry Riptide & Bikini Bottom Berry
[ Reply | Options ]^^^^^^^^^^They know the product is full of crap and has more sugar per ounce than cola. If the stuff was actually healthy, those ingredients lists would be right there. Pretty telling, imo. PS I think the SpongeBob special edition sounds fab. Or maybe the Cool Cotton Candy is better.
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Interesting interview that discusses Go-Gurt. http://mednauseum.blogspot.com/2008/01/kick-off-new-year-with-in-defense-of.html
[ Reply | Options ]I heard an interview with him on NPR. I agreed with most of what he thinks in principle, but it's hard in practice. I'm sure if you dissected every snack that may be UB approved someone would find something objectionable. I think these anti-gogurt moms are borderline fanatics.
[ Reply | Options ]Oh, please. Fanatics? Gogurt is crap, and is right next to the organic brands. Gogurt moms are just obsessed with Dora and SpongeBob like their kids, and God forbid their little angels be asked to eat anything that isn't hyper-sweet and neon purple. IMO they are the fanatics, actively catering to the lowest common denominator of their child's taste buds, soemthing that has been proven to have a lifelong detrimental impact on eating habits.
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