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Chocolate milk is the official beverage of US Olympic swim team

With chocolate milk getting banned from school lunchrooms, the milk industry found a new and clever way to boost lagging sales: Get Olympic medalist Dara Torres and other swim medalists to pitch the sugary beverage chocolate milk as a great way to refuel after a workout. But most of us who exercise don’t work out long enough or hard enough to need a recovery drink at all.

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