Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood overweight

Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by ncphillips on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:32PM (#21937504)

This makes sense to me. My understanding is that consuming sugar has a much higher impact on obesity then consuming fat, and that low-fat milk usually has added sugar to make up for the flavour-loss from removing the fat. I am not exactly well studied in this area though.

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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by throwaway5752 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:37PM (#21937574)

Low fat milk definitely does not have added sugar. If you have to consume a fixed number of calories, though, and you consume reduced fat milk to get to that number of calories, your ratio of calories from fat, protein, and carbohydrates will skew more to protein and carbohydrates.

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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by cs02rm0 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:39PM (#21937597)

I don't think that's the case in the UK at least.

However the sugar level is higher per fixed volume because the removal of the fat increases the concentration of what remains.

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Re:Whole milk compared with reduced-fat milk and childhood o... by ncphillips on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:57PM (#21940871)

Perhaps that’s what they were saying. My memory of this idea is not great, but it’s the same here in Canada as the UK.

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