Can you drink skim, 1% fat free or non fat milk?

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The fat-free milk (or skim milk as its commonly called in the USA) and 1% are so watery, I myself cant stomach it. When my only brother (at age 35) went into the hospital on his one and only (I hope) time as a patient, they sent him skim milk with his breakfast. He actually called me at home, AT 0730, waking me up and told me "they" were trying to poison him, because the milk was GRAY in color! He was totally grossed out! In fact, everytime he looked at the glass on his tray as he spoke to me, he began gagging. Does he bother to ring for dietary to change it? No. Call his wife, the mother of their 3 children? No. He calls me, his oldest sister who is the hospital's midnight charge nurse. I got up froim my warm bed after just coming home from work and drove back to the hospital with a thermos of the 2% kind our family normally drank and he almost didnt believe ME! I informed him if he sniffed into the thermos and gave me a suspicious eyeball he'd wear it. He drank the whole quart without pre-inspection or incident. I retrieved the thermos, kissed him good-bye again(!), started to leave and saw the morning floor staff were in hysterics. I warned them that if anyone, including the doctor (who was laughing as well), orders my brother skim milk again, I will be back that night with a vengence (and they knew I wasnt kidding). Normally I would tell my brother to go to the devil or grow up, but he had had a mini-stroke and was scared being in the hospital with all the bloodwork and multiple testings. So I pampered him (for that time) since he retreated back to when he was "the baby" and always looked up to "big sis" for the answers. He still does, occasionally (but not on the subject of milk anymore - LOL).