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I used to drink whole milk until, in my early 20s and conscious of my girlish figure, I forced myself to acquire a taste for skim milk. I did, and drank skim milk (usually about a quart of day -- I'm big on dairy, being lucky enough to be lactose tolerant!) for the next 37 years, or thereabout.

A few months ago, my very WISE ol' Ma suggested that I should start drinking fat milk again because, as she put it, the body needed the fat in the package to more efficiently process the calcium and other nutrients. Smarter now than I used to be, I TOOK her advice and switched to 2 percent (whole milk is just a little too heavy for my taste buds these days!) ...

... and within less than a month, eating and exercising otherwise just the same as always, I lost FOUR POUNDS.

So, yep, I'd say eating the fat is the smarter choice than leaving it out. Just as eating the whole egg, yolk and all, is smarter than just eating the egg white. But it will take several hundred thousand dollars and multiple studies to "prove" that bit of common sense to folks who believe studies more than common horse sense.