STOP EATING AND DRINKING FAT FREE DAIRY! PLEASE READ

I agree that fat-free stuff is gimmicky. Skim milk is too watery for... anything useful. I love coconut milk, and full-fat cheeses.

I don't like skim milk, so I tend to stick to 1% or 2%. I generally buy low or fat free cheese and yogurt, but that's mostly because the protein count is much higher in those. I certainly don't cut out full fat dairy though.

Good read. Good find. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this i was thinking of changing back to whole milk this has helped me make the decision.

I'm definitely not going to stop drinking fat free dairy. For one, I hate the consistency of higher fat content in milk. I've tried almond and soy milks and while I don't mind them in hot beverages, either one of them with cereal or to drink while eating something sweet makes me gag. Really. So give me a cookie, I'm reaching for that lovely jug of skim milk in my fridge and no alarmist post (which, really, is one of many about the same subject) is going to make me stop.

Didn't read the article but I think I get the theme of the post.

Personally, I drink whole milk and eat full fat cheese. 2% milk is like 130 cals per serving while full fat is 150. For 20 extra cals I get more wholesome milk where nutrition isn't sucked out plus more vitamins etc in whole milk. Since I rarely drink more than 1 cup of milk a day, I'm ok with those 20 extra calories for the added nutrition

No one had heart attacks around the turn of the century?????? I'd like to see the stats on that one!

The secret added ingredient in skim milk is......milk? uh, ok.

The same cows that produce whole milk are producing the skim milk that the article warns us is contaminated with antibiotics, nasty bodily fluids, and GMOs. Uh, if it's in the skim milk, it's in the whole milk too.

Warning! Warning.... the vitamins in milk are fat soluble and therefore cannot be absorbed if you drink skim milk. Well... unless a person is on a zero fat diet, which I don't think has been done since Susan Powter, this is not really a problem.

If you drink skim milk, you're clearly avoiding ALL fat. THAT is why you are constantly hungry and getting fat. Really? I don't think so.

The pharmaceutical companies want you to drink skim milk so they can sell you statins, because drinking skim milk instead of whole milk causes heart disease. Obviously! :noway:

I'm all for eating full fat foods: milk, butter, ice cream, sour cream, etc. IF that is what you like. Personally, most of what I eat is the full fat version. But to suggest that skim milk (and other fat free dairy) is the enemy is simply ridiculous!

... and where does semi-skimmed goats milk for the lactose intolerant fit into this conspiracy? .. or even "Lacto-free" cows milk?... I dread to think what process that goes through.. but I still drink it and happily so...

Quirky Factoid: According to David Lister, dogs milk apparently lasts longer than any other kind of milk

The doctor put me on 2% milk when I was pregnant with my daughter some 25 years ago and I've never drank anything else since. Lower % is to runny and higher % is to thick. I'm fine where I am and don't see me changing any time soon.

Full fat eh? Good way to get diabetes!!!

Full fat eh? Good way to get diabetes!!!

Was that a Bazinga? I really hope that was a bazinga....

Clearly every single human being before they came up with skim milk had diabetes...

I love skim /fat free milk *cheers*

None of the points made are relevant to me.
So no, despite your shouting, I will continue to keep drinking skimmed milk.

For a start, I prefer the taste these days.
If I'm going to have fat, I'll have it from a source I enjoy more.

From the points in the article:
1: Absolutely irrelevant as a reason to not drink or drink it.
2+3: It comes out of the orifice of a live animal. I bet it's got a hell of a lot of ingredients I don't know about. Nature has as many 'nasty' things as human lab-created chemicals.
4: Nor does water. Milk is much higher in protein and is tastier on my cereal.
5: Lost over 50lb so far. Seems to be working. I have many times yo-yo dieted. The reasons for putting weight on have not been related to food but other issues in my life. In some cases I have already been overweight and started eating a lot more bad stuff too. It's not to do with my weight at the time, but what's going on in my life.
6: Well, that's nice. Nor will watching Dr Who. But I still watch Dr Who because I like it.

I agree, I have a glass of skimmed milk a day and it has done no harm to me whatsoever. I would never drink whole milk again.

I'm definitely not going to stop drinking fat free dairy. For one, I hate the consistency of higher fat content in milk. I've tried almond and soy milks and while I don't mind them in hot beverages, either one of them with cereal or to drink while eating something sweet makes me gag. Really. So give me a cookie, I'm reaching for that lovely jug of skim milk in my fridge and no alarmist post (which, really, is one of many about the same subject) is going to make me stop.

All of the above.

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I always enjoy your responses.