Since 1970 the amount of cheese consumed per person in this great nation has tripled. That's according to a report card (pdf) released this week by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The overall dairy numbers paint a not-terrible picture in terms of fat content, with Americans eating less full-fat ice cream and more low-fat yogurt. But the rise in cheese consumption---from 8 pounds per person per year in 1970 to 23 pounds in 2010---brings the dairy grade down to a C-. (The grades are subjective, but are meant to show how our present eating habits stack up to an ideal diet.)
Courtesy of Center for Science in the Public Interest The Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, an industry group, treats the rise in cheese-eating cheerfully. They attribute it, in part, to the fact that we're eating out more and, surprise surprise, restaurants love putting cheese in and on ...
