“Children who drink lower fat milk don’t have less body fat, and they also don’t benefit from the higher vitamin D levels in whole milk,” Maguire explains.
In fact, children who drank one cup of whole milk each day had comparable vitamin D levels to those drinking nearly three times as much skimmed milk, the study found. Vitamin D, of course, it a fat soluble vitamin, so this wasn’t overly surprising, according to the researchers.
“It’s a double negative with low-fat milk,” says Maguire.