Article: Cheese Lovers Get Low-Fat Choices

Imagine having your cheese and eating it, too.

That's now possible thanks to the proliferation of low-fat and even non-fat cheeses that allow cheese lovers to eat their favorite food while still adhering to a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet.

The concept may sound contradictory. After all, most cheese contains roughly 70 percent fat, much of it saturated, just the ticket for raising blood cholesterol levels and increasing the risk of heart disease.

But new varieties of cheese are cut from a different mold. Instead of containing fattening whole milk, they are "made from skim milk," said Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition programs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a ...

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