Whole milk headed back to school cafeterias after Trump signs law as experts tout benefits

President Donald Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act into instrumentality Wednesday — a portion of authorities that brings full beverage and 2% beverage backmost into schools.

Obama-era USDA school-meal rules — nether the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — antecedently banned full milk, requiring schools to lone connection fat-free, low-fat, flavored oregon unflavored beverage options.

"With this legislation, schools volition yet beryllium capable to grow their offerings to see nutritious full milk," the president said during the signing. "This is the cleanable follow-up to the caller Real Food pyramid."

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The measure besides allows parents to petition beverage substitutes, portion a written connection from a doc was antecedently required. 

"We're eliminating that alternatively ridiculous policy, allowing parents to take what is champion for their child, which is simply a large move," Trump added.

President Donald Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act connected Wednesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The alteration comes a week aft the merchandise of the flipped nutrient pyramid, portion of the Make America Healthy Again movement’s proactive attack to health.

At the signing, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said President Trump has ended the warfare connected saturated abdominous that's taken implicit schoolhouse menus, "even though subject [has] ne'er shown that full beverage harms children."

"The panoply of nutrients successful full beverage is captious to encephalon improvement and carnal improvement successful our children," said Kennedy.

The caput linked the summation successful puerility obesity and diabetes to the removal of full beverage from schools implicit the past 15 years.

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A 2020 survey by University of Toronto professors, published successful The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, recovered an relation betwixt higher cow’s-milk abdominous depletion and little body-fat levels successful children ages 1 to 18.

Dr. Neha Pathak, a main doc exertion for WebMD and a erstwhile doc person successful Atlanta, told Fox News Digital that antithetic types of beverage chiefly alteration by however overmuch abdominous they contain.

"The panoply of nutrients successful full beverage is captious to encephalon improvement and carnal improvement successful our children," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. connected Wednesday during the measure signing.  (andresr/Getty Images)

"As you spell down successful beverage abdominous percentage, you mostly get less calories and little saturated fat, portion macromolecule and calcium enactment broadly similar," Pathak said.

Certain vitamins, specified arsenic vitamin D, are typically added backmost done fortification, she noted.

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Addressing the emergence of plant-based milks, Pathak said their macromolecule contented is often little than cow’s milk. 

"Whole beverage is simply a high-quality protein."

The objection would beryllium soy and pea milk, which tin person macromolecule astatine comparable levels to dairy, she added.

Dr. Ben Carson, USDA's nationalist advisor for nutrition, wellness and housing, told Fox News Digital whole beverage helps enactment encephalon development.

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"Children’s brains are increasing truthful rapidly, and beverage provides the steadfast fats that are indispensable for encephalon development," said Carson.

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"Whole beverage is simply a high-quality macromolecule that helps kids person beardown bones and teeth with its vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus content."

Fox News elder aesculapian expert Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox News Digital that portion full beverage whitethorn not person little sweetener than low-fat oregon no-fat milk, determination are galore different benefits.

"With this legislation, schools volition yet beryllium capable to grow their offerings to see nutritious full milk," said President Trump during the signing. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"[Whole milk] offer[s] much protein, calcium, vitamin D and minerals that are bully for you, and it promotes satiety, which whitethorn support you from overeating," the doc said.

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"It whitethorn besides alteration your hazard of obesity and metabolic syndrome and support you from different addictive substances."