Tips for Choosing Healthier Cheeses
It wasn’t that long ago when it seemed that cheese choices in the United States were limited to American, Swiss, and cheddar. Today, you can find more than 400 varieties of cheese, including artisan gourmet cheeses, and soft, hard, aged, and blue cheeses. But be careful — with more cheese choices come more ways to gain weight.
“Cheese is a fabulous source of calcium, but can also be high in saturated fat,” warns registered dietitian Joan Salge Blake, MS, RD, clinical associate professor of nutrition at Boston University. “If you don’t choose cheese carefully, you could get more fat from the cheese on your burger than from your burger.”
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