[shhrubbery!]

Drink skim milk, it's better.

Not necessarily. Calcium (important for kids' growing bones) is not well absorbed without the fat.

And recently there was a Finnish study that showed a correlation between drinking whole milk, and resistance to asthma.

Besides, skim milk tastes like dishwater. My kids won't drink it -- and neither will I.

BTW, sending your kids to school with lactase pills would probably get them expelled since the "zero tolerance" standards simply prohibit such a thing.

If you informed school officials you were sending harmless lactase tablets, and those officials continued to act like idiots, then what are you doing sending your kids to be [mis]educated at such a pathetic school, anyway?

[muawiyah]

Actually, this is one of the better school systems in the country. After all, Fairfax County, Virginia is America's richest county!

That doesn't mean the teachers are not a$$h0les.

[muawiyah]

BTW, there's another couple of Finnish studies that demonstrate that for the Sami (Lapplanders) if the milk is not fermented, the kids will suffer intense abdominal pain.

I'd like to note for the record that raindeer milk is about 23% butterfat. You probably wouldn't want to drink that right off hand, but it's certainly "whole"!

They make a cheese out of it that needs quite a bit of aging to get rid of the lactose. They also ferment it. I don't recall the name at the moment, but the Mongols, Koreans, Hungarians and Estonians all use the same word for this "milk" (with no lactose).

Many "white" Americans have trouble with "whole milk", "skim milk", unaged cheese, cottage cheese, cheesecake, etc. and don't realize the source. American Indians, descendants of central Africans, and almost all East Asian people have this problem.

[Domestic Church]

You are right about the Ca absorption-fat link. Also, children need a certain amount of fat in the diet for the developement of the nervous system as nerve cells have a fatty sheath.

The schools should be more concerned with exposing the kids to aspartamine in diet sodas and such as that is very bad for the developing nervous system.