Connections to Health - Skimmed milk more fattening than whole milk?

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Skimmed milk more fattening than whole milk?

In 12,829 children ages 9 to 14 weight gain was associated with drinking skimmed milk (and 1% milk) not full-fat milk. Fat does not make you fat; sugar and starch make you fat and skimmed milk is mostly sugar. Removing the fat creates an artificial sugar-fat balance causing weight gain. If you're going to use milk, avoid no- and low-fat milk and use natural, non-pasteurized, non-homogenized milk. Remember, when baby cows are fed pasteurized milk they die. And when farmers want to fatten their pigs, they feed them skimmed milk.
Milk fat, dietary calcium and weight gain: a longitudinal study of adolescents. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescents. 2005;159(6):543-550.
Low-fat milk causes weight gain, Full-fat milk does not. Weston A. Price Foundation Information Alert, 7/9/05.