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I grew up drinking 2% milk. I was raised on the philosophy that you should drink the lowest fat milk you could tolerate since by default fewer calories were better. As an adult, when I switched to organic milk, I also switched to non-fat milk, since the organic was richer, and I liked the non-fat milk just fine. Just a few months ago, Joshua asked me why I was drinking non-fat milk. I mean, I’ve finally gotten over calorie counting and other dieting nonsense, so it didn’t make sense to him why I would drink anything other than whole milk. I really stammered for an answer that would make sense and not rely on erroneous dieting thinking. I liked the taste of lower fat milk just fine, unlike, say, non-fat cookies. So, all other things being equal, I finally settled on a stammered answer something along the lines of, “Why not?” But embedded in there is the real question I should have been asking: Between different fat levels of milk, are all other things really equal? Keep Reading