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Are you a cheese whiz?
Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 10:28.
Cheese is full of protein and calcium, so it must be good for you, right? Think again. Here's a quiz to find out how much you know about the cheese in your diet.
All questions true or false.
1. Regular cream cheese has twice as much fat as light cream cheese sold in a tub.
2. Cheese Whiz has 7 grams of fat in 2 tablespoons.
3. Kraft 2 Percent Milk Singles have 3 grams of fat per slice.
4. If you add cheese to your McDonald's Quarter Pounder or Burger King Whopper, you've just added 5 grams of saturated fat to your meal.
5. Choosing part-skim mozzarella instead of regular mozzarella saves you half the fat.
6. A 4-ounce slice of Pizza Hut's Pan Cheese Pizza has less than 14 grams of fat.
7. The average American eats about 2 pounds of cheese a month.
8. Per ounce, Parmesan and Romano have less fat than other cheeses.
9. One serving of cheese is a 1-1/4-inch cube.
Answers: 1. True; 2. True; 3. True; 4. True; 5. False. It saves you just 1 gram of total fat per ounce; 6. False; 7. False. We eat more; 8. False. But a little of these dry cheeses goes a long way; 9. True.
(Source: Nutrition Action Health Letter published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.)
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)


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