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The Health Benefits of Cottage Cheese
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


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Many people are in search for a healthier body. When it comes to getting healthier, diet is just as important, if not more so, than exercise. The body cannot endure strenuous physical activity without having the proper nutrition. The Food and Drug Administration has developed a food pyramid that can be used to gauge how much of what a person should be eating based on their physical activity. Part of the food pyramid suggests between two and three servings of dairy food a day. Cottage cheese is a healthy way to meet all or part of this daily requirement.

Many people avoid dairy foods because they are thought to have a high fat content. While this might be true of some forms of dairy, it is not true of all forms, especially cottage cheese. Cottage cheese in its natural form is low in fat, but is also available in low-fat and non-fat forms. Regular cottage cheese only has 4% of fat by weight, while low-fat has only 2%. It contains protein, calcium, and iron. A half-cup of the cheese has 14 grams of protein. This is about as much as 2 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish. The same serving size also has 77 milligrams of calcium.

It can be easily eaten for breakfast, the proverbial “most important meal of the day.” It is important to eat breakfast because it jump starts your metabolism, letting your body know that by lunch time it should be burning food. Skipping breakfast makes you more prone to overeat at lunchtime because by that time you are ravenous. Try having a half-cup of cottage cheese with fruit or whole-grain toast. This will provide you with the energy that is needed until lunch time and keep you from munching on fattier snacks like muffins or donuts.

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