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myth: Skim milk is fat free.

fact: Although legally permitted to be marketed as "fat free," one cup of skim milk actually contains about 0.3 grams of saturated fat and 85 calories. That means skim milk furnishes about 3 percent of its total calories from saturated fat. That's low-but not fat free. And that excludes the much higher content of cholesterol, which is a form of fat.

If "fat free" skim milk has 3 percent saturated fat by calories, how much fat is in "2%" milk? Actually, the term "2%" refers to the amount of fat by ...

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