At first I assumed this meant we were eating significantly less dairy, but it seems most of the loss in whole milk was just cannibalized by lower fat milk, coin

At first I assumed this meant we were eating significantly less dairy, but it seems most of the loss in whole milk was just cannibalized by lower fat milk, coinciding with the low fat craze. Edit: Actually, on actually doing some math, there is a substantial decrease in overall milk consumption. It's just hard for me to visually account for this since there is so much shuffling between the categories. sum_milk= ->(Whole Milk + 2pct Milk + 1pct Milk + Skim Milk) sum_milk(1970)=.91 cups sum_milk(1990)=.74 cups sum_milk(2013)=.53 cups