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Hello, and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's midweek segment

called Ask a Nutritionist. My name is Leah Kleinshode. I'm a registered and licensed dietitian

with nutritional weight and wellness. And on today's show, I will be answering a few

nutrition related questions about one particular topic, and this question we received from

our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

So these questions are all about a favorite staple food, cheese.

So the question was, cheese, is it good or bad?

Should it be full fat or low fat? How much is okay? Is cottage cheese and cream

cheese okay? So again, we've got several questions around the same topic of cheese. These are really

great questions. These are questions that come up all the time when

I'm counseling with clients or if I'm teaching classes. Everyone wants to know about cheese because

it's a, again, it's a staple food. Everyone loves cheese. So really great questions. And I think

honestly, dairy products are an interesting category of foods. That's just my opinion.

There can be some nuance there. There's, it's not all black and white like there is where

some other food groups. Dairy foods, they just come in all sorts of forms. They range, I mean,

this could range from our dairy fats like butter and ghee and cream

cheese. And this goes all the way to things like then our cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, ice cream,

milk, even weight protein powder is a dairy based protein powder. And then we can even focus on the topic of cheese or that category of

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