It contains eight grams of oats per serving, eight grams of protein from skim milk, fruit juice, and sugar.
And your mom is trying to cook, you know, with the skim milk.
Her suggestion: Keep healthful options -- energy bars, skim milk, even an almond butter and jelly sandwich -- on hand to keep hunger in check.
Milk may have been adjusted by separating part of the milk fat therefrom, or by adding thereto cream, dry whole milk, skim milk, or nonfat dry milk.
"In that sense it was a little deflating that skim milk and 1% milk didn't restrain the amount of weight gain in the groups over time, " says DeBoer.
The fact that whole milk drinkers may still end up weighing less than skim milk drinkers despite the added calories from fat actually does make some sense, however.
But it also separates out the fat, splitting the contents into a cream portion that is 40 percent fat, and skim milk that is less than 0.01 percent fat.
It's possible, for example, that the fat in whole milk may help kids to feel more full, and therefore eat fewer calories in a day than those who drink skim milk.
The investigators point out that the rate of gain between the two groups between ages 2 and 4 were not significantly different, making it less likely that skim milk was a cause of increased weight gain.
One explanation for the results might be that parents of heavier children may be more likely to switch their youngsters to 1% or skim milk in an effort to lower the amount of calories they drink.
Patrick Gural , a 35-year-old district manager overseeing 21 Albertsons (nyse: ABS - news - people ) stores in the south Dallas area, looks as if the skim milk in his cereal doesn't agree with his stomach.
"There are two kinds of marriage: full marriage and the skim-milk marriage, " she said.
The survey tracked the long-term health of a population of American kids born in 2001, and the researchers interviewed the caregivers and parents of the kids when they were 2 and again when they were 4 about what kind of milk the kids drank: skim, 1% semi-skimmed milk, 2% milk, full fat milk or soy.
But it wasn't the normal-weight children who were drinking the most skim or 1% fat milk.
On average, the composition of Holstein milk is 87.7 percent water, 3.7 percent milk fat and 8.6 percent skim solids.
"So the ones drinking skim were by far the heaviest, and those drinking whole milk were the lightest, " he says.
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