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Don't cherry pick. There were two studies mentioned, the second being a meta-analysis of 16 studies.
"The second study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition, is a meta-analysis of 16 observational studies. There has been a hypothesis that high-fat dairy foods contribute to obesity and heart disease risk, but the reviewers concluded that the evidence does not support this hypothesis. In fact, the reviewers found that in most of the studies, high-fat dairy was associated with a lower risk of obesity."
There's more arguments for skim milk here but most of that is crying about sat fat which as most studies have shown not actually a risk for heart disease.
http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/skim-milk-vs-milk-which-is-the-healthier-choice.html
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Don't cherry pick.
"The second study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition
Not cherry picking, just lazy, honest. I only read as far as the link to the first study.
The second study, like the first, does not claim that low fat milk causes or contributes to the risk of obesity, just that it's "associated" (i.e. correlated) with it.
Nick.Earthloop
Does it really show that though ? The linked paper says they sampled people twice 12 years apart, binned those who were obese at the start, and found a correlation between becoming obese during the study and being on the low fat dairy.
You can't conclude from that that eating low fat dairy makes you more likely to become obese. It could be that some people are just inclined to obesity, and that low fat dairy helps them to delay its onset. Obesity inclined people on full fat dairy would have been selected out of the study by being obese at the start.