"Skim milk making you fat?"

The more I research and the more I read, the more I'm coming to believe that the less processed something is, the better, and that goes for milk. Read Gary Taubes' book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" for an interesting history and different perspective on the common associations between fat, cholesterol, heart disease and health. While I don't necessarily buy into every single thing he promotes, I do think he raises some important points, and it's made me realize that it's important to question conventional teachings on diet & health.

For the most part, I'd rather eat controlled portions of whole, natural foods (full fat) rather than more of the processed versions.

Milk in general is making you fat. XD

What do you think milk is for? It's to fatten up little baby calves into 1200-lb. cows. Not to sustain humans. There's a reason the slogan changed from "Does A Body Good" to "Got Milk?".

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Soy and almond milks taste better anyway, in my opinion.

The Article is mis-leading...skimming around the concent (pun intended) that low-fat foods do not equal weight loss.

This stems from the archaic thinking that dietary fat makes you fat which isn't true.

By the same token however, it's labelling skim milk as a "chemically processed" food which isn't in its natural state (natural eating being recommended for healthy lifestyles).

Alot of the mis-conceptions of dietary fat intake that come out in the media are the complete opposite of recommendations made 5, 10 or 15 years ago....however, those same recommendations are constantly contracticted month after month.

The Article is mis-leading...skimming around the concent (pun intended) that low-fat foods do not equal weight loss.

This stems from the archaic thinking that dietary fat makes you fat which isn't true.

By the same token however, it's labelling skim milk as a "chemically processed" food which isn't in its natural state (natural eating being recommended for healthy lifestyles).

Alot of the mis-conceptions of dietary fat intake that come out in the media are the complete opposite of recommendations made 5, 10 or 15 years ago....however, those same recommendations are constantly contracticted month after month.

What he said, plus what the person said above.

I don't know how I feel about Yahoo news.

Also the whole, "don't restrict calories, it's ultimately bad for weight loss" seems a bit bogus to me. While I understand restricting calories too much is detrimental to your metabolism (and ultimately weight loss), it seems to me like they're advocating eating whatever you want (in whatever amount you want). I think someone needs to go back and seriously edit this article to make it clearer and more comprehensive.

While I understand that healthy fats are necessary in any diet, and in that respect I understand why drinking whole milk might be better than drinking skim milk, I think that as long as you're getting your healthy fats somewhere else, drinking skim milk isn't actually going to make you fat.

They claim: "Diets high in fat do not appear to be the primary cause of the high prevalence of excess body fat in our society, and reductions in fat will not be a solution." Well, I don't think skim milk is necessarily the problem, either.

Also, I happen to drink skim milk. Not because I'm like, "fat content, noooooo!" but because I just hate the taste of whole milk. I can go as high as 2% milk, and even that has a tendency to gross me out a bit.

I buy whole unpasturised from local farms when I can get it, but it's not that easy to get, so most of the time I have semi-skimmed. I only have milk in tea and on cereal anyway.

Milk is great in proportion!

It is strange that Humans are the only species on EARTH that feed on another mammals milk.... think about it...

I like one glass on skim to start the day and one to end the day... well actually jack and coke zero to finish, but you get the point!