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I appreciate the nod to whole milk, which has been repeatedly shown to be associated with _lower_ obesity in children. E.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31851302/, many other studies.

>>kaonwa+(OP)
I appreciate the nod to whole milk because 'lite' milk is, well, Nick Offerman said it best as Ron from Parks and Recreation:

"There's only one thing I hate more than lying: Skim milk. Which is water that's lying about being milk"

>>BLKNSL+u2
You know that character is a joke, right?

>>kaonwa+(OP)
What other sources do you have besides that one observational study?

>>NewJaz+Q11
Yeah, but that particular line rings true for me because I've used similar hyperbole when describing lite milk in comparison to real / whole milk.

If you can't tell the difference, then it's been a long time since you've had whole milk.

>>kaonwa+(OP)
This is for children and adolescents, which have different needs than the average adult. It's also just a meta analysis of literature with zero RCTs and a suggestive correlation. Unfortunately, these new guidelines don't seem even nearly detailed enough to cover these kinds of differences. The usual guidelines are well over 150 pages.

>>NewJaz+421
This is a meta-analysis of 28 studies. "Of 5862 reports identified by the search, 28 met the inclusion criteria: 20 were cross-sectional and 8 were prospective cohort."

>>kaonwa+k72
No RCTs and it isn't clear that the studies were even focused on milk as a contributor to obesity, so they could be highly susceptible to confounders.