Xin Nian Hao! This means Happy Chinese New Year in Chinese. During this festival, there are many cool things! What is it? Chinese New Year is a holiday celebrated by Chinese people. It is the new year of the lunar calendar which is the calendar chinese people use. During this holiday, it goes pretty much like any holiday. There are presents, dancing, parades and lots of fun. This year, it’s on January 28th. Special Traditions: Chinese New Year has many special traditions. One of these traditions is giving red envelopes or in chinese hong bao. Red envelopes have money in them for children from their grandparents and parents. Another tradition is Chinese puppy or mu ou xie, is when people get into a costume of the Chinese dragon and dance together. These actors can perform tricks like walking on tiles on high sticks or actually acting like a puppy. Yummy Food: There are a lot of yummy food to eat during Chinese New Year. Everyone eats what they would usually cook for a party but way better. There is duck, lamb, pork, beef, and fish. There is chinese broccoli, spinach and many more vegetables. There is Hot pot, which is a pot where there are many different flavors and can put food in it to cook. There are dumplings and spring rolls, wontons and soup and so, so many more delicacies Fun Things to do: For Chinese New Year, you could do so many things! You could set off firecrackers and decorate your window with cut paper. You could stay home trying to make everything red because the color red is believed to send bad luck away. You could decorate your door with a chinese character or hang lanterns. Chinese New Year is just around the corner, so don’t forget to have fun and watch those firecrackers go. Also, in school, on February 1st, there will be a special Chinese New Year lunch! So get ready to say, Xin Nian Hao!
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Should chocolate milk be served in school cafeterias? This question has been bouncing amongst members of various school boards across the United States. While there may be controversy against this statement, I believe that chocolate milk should be served in school cafeterias. I think this because students drinking chocolate milk is better than them not drinking any milk at all, chocolate milk contains nine essential nutrients to the body, and if chocolate milk is no longer served in schools, the overall lunch system would decrease in participation.
Milk is very important to a child’s nutrients intake and is an important part of their daily diet. Lots of children drink chocolate milk on a daily basis at school. Stated by the website healthy eating (how many glasses of milk should kids drink), kids nine and older should have 3 servings a day of dairy. Milk is a great source to get these 3 servings. Sadly, many children don’t get enough milk. Chocolate milk is one of the only sources of milk they have. Which is better, a couple added sugars and calories or no milk at all? Based on a nesquik chocolate milk label, one 8 oz bottle of nesquik chocolate milk has only 12 grams of sugar, compared to the 11- 14 grams of sugar in white milk. Is loosing all the nutrients worth having a few grams less sugar? There are nine essential nutrients found in milk. Many articles in favor of chocolate milk remind us that these nutrients are calcium, potassium, phosphorus, protein, vitamins A, D and B12, as well as niacin and riboflavin. All nine are very important to the function and well being of one’s body. Studies show that nine out of ten girls and seven out of ten boys don’t get the calcium they need. More than half of kids and teens don’t get enough phosphorus, which works with calcium to build strong bones and teeth. Without these nutrients being continuously brought into a child’s diet, their overall health and well being could be put in jeopardy. A video titled, Chocolate Milk is Tasty Nutrition, 9/10 girls and 7/10 boys don’t get enough calcium. ½ of most kids and teens don’t get enough phosphorus either. Finally, it was found that when chocolate milk was taken out of schools, there would be a decrease in the amount of milk that students drink, the amount of participation in the school lunch program and an increase in the amount milk wasted. It can be found that when chocolate milk was taken out of school cafeterias there was a 35% decrease in the amount of milk that kids drank overall. After 2 years of chocolate milk being taken out of schools, there was still a 37% decrease in the number of students drinking milk. According to the article A School Fight Over Chocolate Milk tells us that as well as the decrease in the money that the milk companies make, there is also a 7% decrease in the amount of children participating in the school lunch program. While the other two things mentioned would decrease, the amount of waste would increase. For example, if one student buys a white milk and only takes a few sips, they waste most of the carton. Imagine that affect over hundreds, even thousands of students. The waste increased by 29%. Many people are arguing for the ban, and they say that the reason chocolate milk should be banned is because it has added sugars. They say that in an addition to being unnecessary and unhealthy, it could increase the amount of children that develop obesity. However, chocolate milk has only a few grams of added sugar. Studies show that as long as children have a moderate activity level these few added sugars do not affect how much students weigh. If food activists are so concerned about sugar, then they should consider the fact that the added sugar in chocolate milk only accounts for 2% of the sugar in most american teen’s diets. In conclusion, chocolate milk is a big part of children and teen’s diets. It should not be banned. Without chocolate milk in schools, sales for dairy companies and schools would go down and waste would go up, chocolate milk is better than kids drinking no milk, and it has the same nine essential nutrients as in white milk. If you think that chocolate milk should be banned, then consider options to make white milk the more apparent choice. “Indulge … life is sweet.” -Unknown. |
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