Are you a cheese whiz?
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Cheese is full of protein and calcium, so it must be good for you, right? Not necessarily. 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 11/4-inch cube.
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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.
