moo juice

So beginith the rant:

Let's take a trip down memory lane. You're in elementary school it's lunch time. You're waiting in line with your friends making dumb jokes picking teams for kickball or laying claim to the tether ball pole you plan to dominate for the next 30min. You start to inspect the trays of the kids walking out the exit door to the cafeteria line. You either smile knowing there will be french fries or fight back bile knowing its "bbq frank day". You get to the front of the line and there are milk cartons filled with moo juice in its two God given flavors regular and chocolate. You pick your poison and proceed down the line... Did you pick chocolate? I know I always did. Now before you leave this memory vacation. I want you to look around the lunch room... Really take it all in. Look at the children from your past sitting around you. How many chose chocolate? How many of them were obese?
In fact, can you even remember an obese kid when you were growing up? Not a "fat kid" who was pudgy and hadn't hit his or her growth spurt. An actual leading to type two diabetes obese kid. I can't think of any, but I was from a small town so maybe I'm jaded.
But according to this story chocolate milk is a leading cause of childhood obesity.

Funny, I drank chocolate milk all through my childhood, and I wasn't obese. In fact I ate candy during class parties, extra cookies every day at lunch, every day after school I tried to consume at least one soda and a pile of junk food before my parents got home (oh, and yes as a child I walked home from school and hung out at least an hour before my mom or dad got home, the humanity, the horror). This was also the trend with most of my friends. None of us were obese.
So, what was different so many years ago?
-Could it be that unlike my parents the house was only stocked with a limited supply of junk food?
-Could it be that after lunch that by my best estimates was at least 2,500 calories we played for 35-45min on a playground. Doing actual physical activities.
-Could it be that even at home with the lure of the NES and the TV we were still "forced" to play outside, with other kids?
-Could it be that on top of recesses we had PE which was an hour of actual physical activity.
Man I'm glad that parents and hippies have removed those demeaning and dangerous activities like dodge ball, kick ball, wall ball, tether ball, or any competitive sport from the curriculum. And I'm also glad that today kids are not expected to preform any physical activity they don't want to so as not to bruise their delicate psycis.
I mean really, being obese and unhealthy, pasty white an unable to run, do a pushup, or throw a ball is so good for confidence. But hey, fat peopel fall under the protective umbrella of "Political Correctness" and we don't want the thought police coming after us for thinking bad of the fatties... Cause you know its not their fault.


SO ENDITH THE RANT:
(yes i'm taking into consideration the rare, Less that %5 of the population who are born with a glandular defect which causes weight gain. Those people cannot help it, but most are medically working hard to maintain their weight)