Is Skim Milk Making You Fat?

I actually prefer the taste of skim milk to anything else, so this kind of bums me out. I guess I've been conditioned to it for so long that anything else tastes too rich. :(

Some of you need to wake up and realize who's behind these studies! Skim milk IS terrible for you and does make you fatter. Try reading Weston A Prices stance on skim milk. It always has been bad for you, even if that's not convenient to believe. There are MANY inconvenient truths out there.

Does not exercising make you fat?

Milk is a deadly poison? I grew up on whole milk and drank a 1/2 gallon a day for probably decades from 1 year old. Milk from family dairy farms in New England. I was a championship football player, in superb health, never broke a bone in my life, and in my twenties ran 6 miles a day, at 6.5 - 7 minutes a mile. I started eating low-fat everything in my late twenties cause I wanted to get "ripped" and now I'm a fat-ass at 275. Go figure! anyway, there's a cemetary with hundreds of graveestones in it from the 18th century in my neighborhood. I would say the average life-span of my colonial forefathers was 75 years based on the life-spans I see on the stones. Common in that cemetary to see people who died in their 70's and 80's, some even in their 90's - this is in 18th and 19th century! What did they do without Medicare! I know they weren't drinking skim milk. I have news for people. Everything you read about stuff like this is a waste of your time. My forbears lived exactly as long as we all do now in the same proportions three CENTURIES ago. Here in the 21st century, kids still die in their first days or years. Very few people get into their nineties. Go spend 3 Trillion a year on health care, soy milk, Lipitor and any other health product you care to name. Tell me it helps. Bulls---, it does. Them doctor's have nice jobs though, don't they?

you gain weight by eating calories,3,500 over what you need and you gain 1 lb,fat has 9ca.per gram,carbos.and protein each have 4,so you don't have to be very smart to know that skim is the much better choice,also it doesn't have all of the artery clogging fat like the others

I eat only real food. I drink whole milk, I make my meals and eat at the table. I avoid processed food and overeating. Dropped 100 pounds. Its more portion control and only eating when your are hungry not really what you eat. You want to eat things that help keep you full so that means fat is very important as is fiber and protein. For breakfast I have two pieces of whole grain bread toasted, 2 eggs and a piece of cheese and make a sandwich out of it. Sometimes I slice up a red pepper and cook it and add it the sandwich for flavor. I wash it down with a glass of whole milk. 650-700 calories. I am never hungry before lunch. For lunch I make my own, toast bread in the morning and allow to cool before packing your lunch (or the bread gets soggy). Then just some lean lunch meat, a little mayo, lettace and even a few strips of bacon. I like avacodos so sometimes its bean paste (mash up great northern beans and add olive oil and garlic) with avacado on whole wheat. I drink another glass of milk with that. Another 500-600 calories for lunch. The bacon or the avocado have fat so just like breakfast I am not hungry until my next meal. Just in case I usually pack a banana and end up eating that right before dinner so I do not overeat at dinner. Dinner, piece of salmon, some whole grain pasta cooked and roasted red pepper olive oil for flavor and fresh parmesan cheese on top (the cheap stuff at wal-mart is excellent but shed it yourself as you use it), and some green beans. At night I have a glass of red wine, a few almonds and a piece or two of cheese. I consume about 2500 calories on a normal day and cut back to 2000 when I need to drop a few pounds. I exercise only 20 minutes in the morning (circuit training) and alternate muscle groups and after dinner just play a little basketball out back with the kids. Thats just a sample of a normal day but other suggestions are to get a rice cooker which can double steaming veggies. Sometimes I just steam some carrots and celery with a little onion and keep them in the fridge so when I get muchies I just eat that. I do have a soda now and again but only ones with real sugar. Stay away from processed foods and learn to cook your own meals and not snack and you will drop weight. I lost 100 pounds in 8 months and have kept it off for 6 years now. It is simple but yet takes years to build your recipe box with enough items to make it a lifestyle change and not a diet. My type2 vanished, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, acid reflux vanished. Its NOT expensive when you know what you are doing (it does take years to build up your spices and such). Avoid tobacco (Swedish SNUS is the exception), take care of your teeth, drink in moderation and eat NORMAL and you will feel like a million bucks!

This article is pseudo-science. I have never been a whole milk drinker and will not change my ways because of one article posted (of all places) online. I find that low-fat 2% is not too bad, as long as it is in my coffee (home-brewed kind) and not in my cereal. It's closer to half & half. Seriously, one person stated eat small quantities and in moderation is the key to ALL good eating habits. Problem is that most Americans are self-indulgent and feel that cutting one fat and replacing it with another, will not make them gain weight... wrong. Consciously looking at what you ingest every time is difficult but a great discipline of the mind.... ask yourself- what is this going to do to my body... and if you truly care about what your are doing, you will find that you will look for the most healthy foods and increase fruits/vegetables/grains, etc. All-in-all, do your research before listening to these short articles :0/

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Great article, it's amazing how the perception of fat in food is changing. I remember when there was s huge push to eat low fat foods. I think the idea is still around with milk. Great to remember that not all fats are bad.
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Don't drink anything but whole milk. The other taste like water to me. I would rather have milk , butter, eggs, and buttermilk from someone that has a cow and chickens......lke you used to could get out in the country where I live. Greedy, stupid industry put a stop to that....along with government help. For more healty than the mess you buy.

Guys, pls eating whatever u want to eat, but do it in moderation! Life is for the living. Very soon, they may tell us that the air we breathe is poisonous.

healthier to decrease the simpler carbohydrates

Milk... dairy products ... I am not good with Soy or dairy.. skim works for me because it is not so rich and much easier to digest. Its not always about weight but what your body is happy with. In other words finding a balance between being healthy, tasting good and good for you. Dairy supports inflammation acid production which in turns increases disease in the body. Do your home work and listen to your body. What you get away with today is a tough life lesson down the track. Take responsibility for your health and life by doing research and listen to your own body.

to those of you who drink or use whole, do you guys ALL use the raw and/or nonhomogenized versions?

I'll just keep buying my vanilla l flavored unsweetened almond milk. It tastes much better, has only 35 - 40 calories per 8 oz. serving and has more calcium than milk. Heart healthy and 50% daily vitamin E.

As an Exercise Science major applying who is applying to med school this is the stupidest article I have ever read in my entire life. I can't believe they actually post this absolute garbage. I feel bad for the person who actually listened to this and is now heavier. The amount of weight you gain or lose is directly proportional to calorie intake minus energy expenditure.

funny my mother in law was feeding my daughter whole milk while i was in iraq and when i came home she was 5 pounds over weight. when i put her back on skim milk the weight just came right back off she is no longer over weight and she is slender again and boy she can drink milk up to half a gal. a day.

could skim milk make you fat?
Answer: No.

could reading this article make you stupid?
answer: Yes.

WHO FREAKING CARES!?! You nut cases got your stupid "What's In It" labels and guess what? No one reads them! If I wanted some moron to tell me something is bad, just because they don't like it, I would have my head up your ass so I could hear you. Enough already! You just keep patting yourself on the back for saving us all from ourselves, and we will keep eating what we want.

Ck causes your gall bladder to contract so bile can be released to emulsify/cleave the fat. While fat may help you to feel satiated because the fat slows the emptying of the stomach, it Is probably not the lack of fat in skim milk making you fat. Overeating calories without exercising and low lean body mass to fat stores probably is contributing more to obesity. There are , of course, other mitigating factors but until we admit that we eat more than we exercise these articles are just magic wands that may cause health problems. Trust people with credential, they are at least trying to help and not trying to get rich spouting untrue statements.