>>I'd be a terrible parent if I gave my daughter a bedtime snack of water and cookies, now wouldn't I???
Alternatively, perhaps bedtime sugary snacks are helping to pay for the dentist's new Porsche! ;-)
>>1% milk has protein, some vitamin A (though not beta carotene), calcium, etc. Remember, I worked in USDA/WIC for years...which means I got plenty of tips from the nutritionists I dated. :)
Sure... but water makes up at least 50% of the human body, so why not drink water for fluids and good food still in identifiable form for the rest? IME quality food doesn't need ranch dressing or mayo sloshed over it either: thousands of years of evolution makes good food taste good. The problem today is that with so many options sweetened by manufacturers, a lot of people expect the familiar sugary taste or there's something wrong with it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
