Switch to Low-Fat Milk in Schools Shows Benefit

Lies.

When New York City public schools made the switch from whole milk to skim or low-fat milk, students cut their annual fat and total calorie consumption, department researchers found.

Milk-drinking students consumed 5,960 fewer calories and 619 fewer grams of fat per year after they made the switch, Philip M. Alberti, PhD, of the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and colleagues reported in the Jan. 29 issue of CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report.

At 3,500 calories per pound, the reduction would be the equivalent of 1.7 pounds of body weight over the course of a year.

First, there are not 3500 Calories in a pound.

There are 3500 Calories in a pound of fat and it is a physical, physiological, biological and mathematical impossibility to lose one pound if someone is in a 3500 Calorie deficit.

In fact, there has never been a study that proves that a 3500 Calorie deficit will result in one pound of weight loss.

The reason: it is impossible.

To learn why, go here.

Second.

The switch did not show any benefit. All it showed was that school system-wide fewer milk Calories were consumed.

This is not the same as a benefit.

There are no data to show that the incidence of overweight/obesity decreased.

There are no data that kids got fitter or healthier.

And there is reason to believe that it made no difference in the right direction, as they would have noted it, had it.

There are just data demonstrating self-congratulations for nothing substantive.