57 Pounds of Sugar

Jamie Oliver is in Los Angeles this winter trying to improve the eating habits of local schoolchildren.

The LA Unified School District won't have anything to do with him, but he's still attracting attention.

He recently staged a demonstration where he poured 57 tons of sand into a school bus to illustrate the 57 pounds of sugar LA schoolchildren consume each week in flavored milk.

That's right -- in flavored milk.

Wow.

That's not counting the candies and cookies and other sweets they eat.

There are 28 grams of sugar in 8oz of flavored milk, the same as in a can of non-diet soda.

Kids are drinking sugar masked as health food.

(The photo above is Larry's re-creation of the event. He used a toy school bus.)