that I LOVE chocolate milk?

I just had to emphasis the point.  My ds and I are big chocolate milk lovers....although I must admit I haven't been drinking a ton of milk in the last few years --- and now we're on to Lactaid due to my dh's Crohn's and evidently my dd is sensitive to lactose as well.  Sheesh.

I never thought about all the finer points of milk consumption and had no idea that the 1% and other lower fat milks don't necessarily have the same nutritional value as whole.....damn.  That stinks if it's accurate.  Back to when I was a kid, my family has been opting for lower fat milk -- skim when I was little.  We seem to have done fine all these years - all three kids never a broken bone growing up -- that is until my eldest sibling got thrown out of a bar in his thirties -- I think his arm was broken during that melee.  Holy crap.  Go figure that one.  Surprising actually that it hadn't happened years earlier given his propensity for getting screwed up when he was young.

Thanks for noticing my enthusiasm around chocolate milk -- :>)