Question

1. Which food item adds the least amount of fat to a piece of toast?

   		a. jelly
   		b. margarine
   		c. butter
   		d. reduced-fat cream cheese

2. Keisha eats meat but wants to reduce her saturated fat and cholesterol intake. What should she do?

   		a. eliminate dairy foods from her diet
   		b. eat less meat and more grains and vegetables
   		c. eat more eggs and less meat
   		d. eliminate beef and pork from her diet

Answer 1

ANSWERS:

1)

Jelly contains the least amount of fat from all the options listed i.e. margarine,butter and reduced fat cream cheese.

So, food item which adds least amount of fat is

OPTION A - jelly

2)

• As meat contains the high cholesterol but less saturated fat in it. So, first of all Keisha has to eat less meat.

• She has to add more grains and vegetables into his diet because it contains soluble fiber which lowers the Cholestrol levels in our body.

• eggs contains high amount of Cholestrol but less saturated fat.

• dairy products contains very low levels of fats and Cholestrol in it

• beef and pork also contains also contains high Cholestrol level.

So, from above information, reducing meat from diet and eating more vegetables and grains can lower the Cholestrol and saturated fat levels in the body of Keisha.

So, the correct option is

OPTION B - eat leads meat and more grains and vegetables.