Delicious and Healthy: The Benefits of Low Fat Cheese
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


Defined Tag: Low Fat Cheese.

If you're going on a low fat diet, then low fat cheese is one of the first things you'll want to stock up on. Many cheeses, such as part-skim mozzerella, are already lower in fat than, say, cheddar or Brie, and low fat cheese seldom has much of a taste difference, especially when the cheese is used as an ingredient.

As an ingredient, low fat cheese works every bit as well as the regular stuff. Plus, low fat cheese adds calcium and protein to the diet. Women, especially, should incorporate cheese into the diet as often as possible, and not just when they're dieting. But cheese takes on an important extra dimension during a diet, as it may make up for other nutrients which the woman may have inadvertently cut out of her diet; such as, for example, calcium and protein.

Is low fat cheese as healthy and nutritious as normal cheese? Not quite. An ounce of low fat cheddar cheese, for example, has 6.9 grams of protein, according to the government's nutrition website (nutrition.gov). Regular cheddar, on the other hand, has 7.06 grams. Regular cheddar has 28 grams of potassium; low fat cheddar has only 19. The most significant difference is in calcium; whereas regular cheddar has 204 mg of calcium, low fat cheddar has only 118 mg.

However, the key is to remember that 118 mg of calcium is still many more than you might get otherwise. Cheese's benefits diminish when you choose the low fat varieties; they don't disappear. Plus, who doesn't like the taste of cheese in hundreds of thousands of dishes? Kids who won't eat steamed broccoli hardly ever turn their nose up at steamed broccoli drenched in melted cheese. And while that example may be a little extreme, it's true for us adults, as well; cheese makes things taste better. Cheese gives important nutrients. Low fat cheese should be an essential part of every diet.

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