and other products of expert opinion Star Tribune Sunday, June 22, 2014 Author: Paul John Scott How dodgy research with a Minnesota connection led to the low-fat diet - which, it turns out, is not just unsuitable but morbidly so. Right before the end of the school year, it finally occurred to me to ask my fourth-grader if she ever drank chocolate milk at school. It turns out she did every day. Her whole table drinks it, she told me the time - it's one big chocolate-milk party over there. She's a good kid and wants to please her parents, so I told her to please, sweet darling, knock it off. I have my doubts. We try to pack her lun but since it's hard to stock small cartons of the whole milk she ravishes at home, we don't have a lo control over what she drinks in the cafeteria during the school year. Those options are squarely in hands of the USDA. Uncle Sam is a very bad uncle when it comes to milk. Minneapolis schools may have ended the Diet & Health practice, but chocolate milk makes up 70 percent M of the milk consumed in schools, according to a new report by food activist Michele Simon, and it THE WEEKLY MAGA is even offered right here in Rochester Healthtown, USA. Thanks to the irreducible relationship linking the U.S. Department of Agriculture with food producers, there are schools in the United States hanging Orwellian posters like "Chocolate Milk Has Muscle" and "Raise Your Hands for Chocolate Milk." In a way, it's hard to argue with the kids. Their alternatives are the deeply unsatisfying skim and the equally nondelicious 1 percent. Still, if you believe sugar is