Milk is high in fat and cholesterol, so of course it’s not that healthy.
More misinformation. As an Oist, I have learned to distrust govt-induced recommendations. That has come to include dietary recommendations from the FDA/ADA/AHA/etc, and for good reason. Contrary to popular belief, high fat / high cholesterol is healthy. It is high carbohydrate that causes obesity, heart disease, and the metabolic syndrome.
Read these two posts on Diana Hsieh’s blog:
http://www.dianahsieh.com/blog/2008/09/new-diet.shtml
http://www.dianahsieh.com/blog/2008/10/what-i-eat.shtml
And watch this lecture from UCSF endocrinologist Robert Lustig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
As for how the mainstream notion that fat and cholesterol makes you fat got started, check out Gary Taubes’s lecture here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4362041487661765149
and the movie Fat Head (clips here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4
).
When I drink milk (usually with chocolate or coffee), I get fat-free milk.
I drink whole milk. I also eat the fattiest ground beef, fattiest cuts of steak, eggs and bacon every day, whole milk yogurt, high fat cottage cheese, all other meats, cheese, and some vegetables and minimal fruit. Eating this way, I lost 20lbs in a couple months (and an additional 10lb over the next couple months) and got off my blood pressure medication, all without any exercise. I also ate whenever I was hungry. No attempt was made to knowingly restrict my calories.
Before that I was trying to lose weight eating low fat everything, cutting calories, exercising like crazy. It didn’t work because it physically couldn’t. Your body will sooner see you die than give up your fat so long as you are eating a high carb diet, no matter how much you restrict your calories.
And everyone I’ve recommended this diet to (family and friends) has seen the same results, as have the people they’ve subsequently recommended it to.