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[AuthenticM]

This is something that I have heard for all my life. "It's so much fatter". "You'll do cholesterol". Things like that. But with the general population's knowledge on food being often times completely wrong and ignorant, is that shit true? I love 3,25% milk. It's so much better than 2%. I'm trying to find vindication.

 

[btrboyev]

Milk isn't good for you regardless when you think about it. But to answer your question, the difference between skim and 2% isn't a large one..noticeable in texture, but I doubt it's "worse" for you.

 

[Jay Sosa]

Here is an actual picture of a Food Scientist:

 

[FZZ]

Milk isn't good for you regardless.

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[Maiden Voyage]

You'll be fine, OP.

 

[Slayer-33]

This is something that I have heard for all my life. "It's so much fatter". "You'll do cholesterol". Things like that. But with the general population's knowledge on food being often times completely wrong and ignorant, is that shit true? I love 3,25% milk. It's so much better than 2%. I'm trying to find vindication.

No, no bro.

Anything over or under 2% is nasty as hell.

 

[BAW]

Full fat 4 lyfe. Skim milk is just water pretending to be milk.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

No, no bro.

Anything over or under 2% is nasty as hell.

Simply not true.

 

[The Lamp]

Here is an actual picture of a Food Scientist:

The OP doesn't have much to do with food science. If anything, it's loosely related. This is more of a nutrition or medicine topic.

 

[thestopsign]

As a big lover of milk, I am decently sure that no form of milk is all that healthy for you. Changing percentages is splitting hairs, go with what you think tastes good if you are going to drink it.

 

[Laieon]

Milk isn't good for you regardless when you think about it.

Whole Milk makes me happy. I want to be happy. Therefore, I can conclude that milk is in fact good for me.

2%, 1%, and Slim are disgusting and should be taken out back though.

 

[oreomunsta]

No, no bro.

Anything over or under 2% is nasty as hell.

This is a factually wrong statement.

Full milk or no milk

 

[lokimotion]

Unless you're drinking a ludicrous amount, not really. It's an extra 10 or so calories per cup, with 3 grams of fat more than 2%, which is countered a bit by having 2 grams of less carbs.

You do get a couple of extra grams of protein with 2% but really not enough to make a huge difference.

 

[jmdajr]

Saturated Fat is NEUTRAL. Not really good...or bad for you.

Eat your vegetables.

I get my cholesterol checked every month. Whole milk has done nothing to it. In fact it dropped because I eat less sugar now.

 

[Leona Lewis]

Science will have to snatch my gallon of Lactaid Whole Milk from my cold, dead hands.

That shit is magical, and is even thicker and creamier than normal whole milk with lactose.

all over me

 

[Jay Sosa]

The OP doesn't have much to do with food science.

oh no.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Milk isn't good for you regardless when you think about it.

Okay, why?

 

[jmdajr]

Okay, why?

Because poor cows!

Hipster science!

 

[Fuchsdh]

I ruined my roommate in college by insisting we should get 2% milk instead of skim like he'd grown up with. Now he can't go back.

The science on this stuff is conflicting and utterly useless, so really as long as you're not drinking gallons of the stuff and combining it with a lot of other fat, knock yourself out on the whole milk.

 

[Jay Sosa]

Okay, why?

noooo..what have you done.

 

[shiftplusone]

I ruined my roommate in college by insisting we should get 2% milk instead of skim like he'd grown up with. Now he can't go back.

The science on this stuff is conflicting and utterly useless, so really as long as you're not drinking gallons of the stuff and combining it with a lot of other fat, knock yourself out on the whole milk.

Was he like oh wow milk has a taste and isn't just white water because that's what skim milk is

 

[Trevelyan]

I go through about 1.5 gallons of whole milk a week, and when I was between the ages of 2-3, I pretty much only drank milk, according to my mom. I can't live without it. I would like to learn how milk is not good for you, though.

 

[aBarreras]

Full fat 4 lyfe. Skim milk is just water pretending to be milk.

Ron, is that you?

i never understood about those things, 2 percent skim bla bla bla? i drink what my mother buys haha

 

[Gutek]

Whole milk has health benefits and is certainly much better than its reputation.

http://time.com/4279538/low-fat-milk-vs-whole-milk/

If you drink milk, go whole milk.

 

[whatsinaname]

I mean, it isn't a very large difference one way or the other. (Unless you are drinking gallons a day). Either should be easy to fit into whatever overall macro balance you are aiming for.

Whole milk

2% milk

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Milk isn't good for you regardless when you think about it. But to answer your question, the difference between skim and 2% isn't a large one..noticeable in texture, but I doubt it's "worse" for you.

Calcium is good for you.

 

[SuperBanana]

Milk isn't good for you regardless when you think about it.

Incorrect.

 

[supernormal]

Whole milk or bust.

 

[strafer]

Milk isn't good for you regardless

I drink a glass of milk everyday.

 

[G.ZZZ]

There's actually no studies that confirm fat milk being worse for you, in fact, most circumnstatial evidence and studies point to the contrary. High fat dairy diets are linked to lower obesity and are neutral or positive in most other biological markers.


It makes a bit of sense when you realize that skim milk is just literally soda, aka water and sugar.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I go through about 1.5 gallons of whole milk a week, and when I was between the ages of 2-3, I pretty much only drank milk, according to my mom. I can't live without it. I would like to learn how milk is not good for you, though.

Milk is fine. It's not the best source of fat for a person, but it's not the devil that posters above make it out to be. In particular, whole milk is linked to less obesity than skim.

 

[Lambtron]

Science will have to snatch my gallon of Lactaid Whole Milk from my cold, dead hands.

That shit is magical, and is even thicker and creamier than normal whole milk with lactose.

all over me

Total agreement here. Lactaid Whole Milk is godlike. The Target store brand is maybe even better, tbh. But they're the only milk I buy.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Skim milk is struggle milk. Whenever I wanted cereal and we only had that, I ate something else.

 

[jmdajr]

There's actually no studies that confirm fat milk being worse for you, in fact, most circumnstatial evidence and studies point to the contrary. High fat dairy diets are linked to lower obesity and are neutral or positive in most other biological markers.


It makes a bit of sense when you realize that skim milk is just literally soda, aka water and sugar.

I think of all my years wasted drinking that skim milk garbage.

 

[SlimySnake]

Milk isnt good for you. - Gaf 2016.

WTF is wrong with you people.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

There's actually no studies that confirm fat milk being worse for you, in fact, most circumnstatial evidence and studies point to the contrary. High fat dairy diets are linked to lower obesity and are neutral or positive in most other biological markers.


It makes a bit of sense when you realize that skim milk is just literally soda, aka water and sugar.

Not true. Here is one such study.

 

[soundscream]

Is 3,25% milk whole milk? Because I have never seen anyone refer to it this way.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I've never heard it called 3.25% milk in my life.

 

[Gutek]

Not true. Here is one such study.

You just proved the guy right.

 

[Darksol]

What, we hate milk now?

 

[br3wnor]

Shouldn't make a huge difference health wise, I'm just so used to the taste of skim and 1/2% milk that when I have 'whole' milk it's WAY too rich for me.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Kind of wish that for once I could enter a gaf thread about the nutrition about [insert basic food here] where the inevitable '[insert basic food here] is bad for you' post is actually explained instead of dropped into the pool like a snickers bar without explanation.

 

[Malvolio]

Even cows stop drinking milk.

 

[Futureman]

Saturated Fat is NEUTRAL. Not really good...or bad for you.

Eat your vegetables.

I get my cholesterol checked every month. Whole milk has done nothing to it. In fact it dropped because I eat less sugar now.

Why do you get your cholesterol checked monthly?

 

[badcrumble]

Actually, the gallon of milk a day gaining diet is uncomplicatedly good for you.

 

[this_guy]

Skim milk is struggle milk. Whenever I wanted cereal and we only had that, I ate something else.

But it cost the same?

The problem with milk is the sugar/carbs.

 

[Gutek]

What, we hate milk now?

Oh, you just wait. Eventually there's gonna be someone claiming it's for baby cows and not for humans and that's why it's bad for you. That person will probably also be gluten intolerant.

 

[Sakura]

I don't know but I'm sitting here drinking 4.5% and it tastes great.

 

[TheCochese]

I drink my skim milk straight out of the gallon jug and I DGAF who doesn't like it.

 

[jmdajr]

Why do you get your cholesterol checked monthly?

Cause my grocery store pharmacy does it for free!

I'm basically my own food science experiment.

Eat. See results.