Drinking Skim Milk May Be Making Toddlers Fat

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http://www.businessinsider.com/drinking-skim-milk-may-be-making-toddlers-fat-2013-3



Giving toddlers skimmed or one percent fat milk could cause them to become overweight or obese, according to the counterintuitive results of a study.

US researchers found healthy-weight two-year-olds who regularly drank these types of milk were 57 per cent more likely to be overweight or obese at four, as those who drank full-fat milk.

Parents with overweight children might like to give their offspring low fat milk to help curb their waistlines, but the researchers said this logic might be misplaced.

Full-fat milk may satisfy children’s appetites better, thereby making them less likely to raid the cupboard for truly unhealthy snacks like biscuits and cakes, they argued.


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[KurtNYC]

1. Eventually we will move away from the flawed ideas that all calories are equal, and

that eating lipids (fats) translates to fat in the body.

The theory in clip fits with the way adult Americans eat -- a kind of 50/50 mix of healthy foods ballasted by unhealthy foods. I worked with people who would say they had a "salad for lunch" and then around 2 or 3PM they would have a pint of ice cream. As a nation we drink skim milk but put cheese on everything. And the food industry has mastered this shell game, selling the milk as low fat and the cheese as rich in calcium.

[tridim]

2. Agreed. The worst is low fat ice cream.

I've seen people eat half a carton in one sitting. "But it's low fat!", they say.

I'll never give up whole milk, and not just because it's good for me, but because it actually TASTES GOOD. One glass satisfies.

Skim milk is just wrong. I put it in the same category as diet soda. Something that is marketed as "better for you", but actually isn't.

[NickB79]

7. The new heart study blew a big hole in the lowfat theory

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/health/mediterranean-diet-can-cut-heart-disease-study-finds.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Not much lowfat about eating tons of nuts, oily fish and olive oil on everything

[KansDem]

3. It's time to move beyond meat and diary products for every meal

We don't need to be eating ranch and farm products for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. We're no longer an agrarian society.

Alexis de Tocqueville called it right some 180 years ago:

Tocqueville was taken aback at the American predilection (which, alas, seems only to have gotten worse) for eating "with both feet in the trough," confessing that he was "baffled by the sheer quantity of food that people somehow stuff down their gullets."

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1929/article_detail.asp

[NickB79]

8. Aren't all foods "ranch and farm products"?

Unless you're foraging for nuts and berries in the woods, what foods do you suggest that aren't farm products?

[KansDem]

9. You have a point...

I was referring to milk, eggs, bacon, etc.

When I as growing up, I had milk, eggs, bacon or sausage for breakfast. Then bologna sandwiches and milk for lunch and some kind of meat and milk for dinner.

But that was standard. My mom thought she was feeding me well-nourishing meals, and I'm certain she wasn't the only mother to think so during the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Perhaps if we had organic mushroom "farms" (and the like), and knew then what we know now, it would have been much different. Perhaps we as a nation wouldn't be walking around today carrying 50, 100, or 200 pounds or more and suffering the health consequences as a result.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Skim milk may not be the only drink connected with obesity. What about "diet" drinks?

Do all obese people drink "diet" pop? How many obese people prefer "diet" drinks over water? All?

Why did the FDA refuse to approve of aspartame until Donald Rumsfeld got involved?

"Aspartame was initially discovered back in 1965 as a drug to treat peptic ulcers.

"In it’s first 16 years of existence, the FDA absolutely positively refused it’s approval. It is dangerous and deadly. The Food and Drug Administration did it’s job, protecting the public. It refused to put Aspartame on the market.

More at:
http://todayyesterdayandtomorrow.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/donald-rumsfeld-in-bed-with-aspartame/

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Your brain is made of fat

kids need it to grow up smarter, and apparently their little bodies know that.

[Lex]

6. People are too concerned with fats and not enough with sugar. nt

[SheilaT]

10. I recall reading many years ago

that your body can't make use of the calcium in skim milk, because a certain amount of fat is needed to metabolize the calcium. I also read over and over that children up to the age of two should be drinking whole milk, and after that could be switched to 2%.

Between skim milk and diet soft drinks leaching calcium from bones, is there any wonder we're having an epidemic of osteoporosis in this country?