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Ted Talk On Chocolate Milk

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Jaimie Oliver in his Ted Talk claims chocolate milk is abominable for children, and it cause children to become obese and form bad habits in the future. While this tends to be the thought as true, Jaime makes an incomplete argument by not fully explaining the problems of chocolate milk and using a poor visual aid of sugar in a wheel barrow without describing the implications. Milk has key vitamins and nutrients needed in a diet, like calcium, but it also has natural sugars in it. “It has 14 grams of natural sugar or lactose; fat free chocolate milk has an extra six grams of sugar for a total of 20 grams, while fat-free strawberry milk has a total of 27 grams” (Hoag 1). A massive problem with the amount of sugar is that marketing companies who
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