Now? Now’s too late! I had to put up with skim milk for 25 years!

MY older siblings grew up in the blissfully ignorant era of food dyes and trans-fat, but I’m the youngest. In my time, Ma gradually became aware of health trends. I have   a distant, vague memory of packaged cookies in the pantry, but they vanished before I was five.

It was also at this point that the newspapers began to insist that fat was the bane of health — there could be none in our diet. So Ta decreed the age of skim milk.

I want my childhood back.

In the years since, the nutrition industry has coughed in embarrassment and retracted that statement from the '90s, claiming that, um, well, fat is actually not so bad, and that dairy products should be low-fat, not non-fat.

Now? Now’s too late! I had to put up with skim milk for 25 years!