I'm discovering just how much I eat cheese. According to the Amber Waves website, a resource for the economics of food farming and natural resources, http://www.ers.usda.gov/amberwaves/february05/findings/cheeseconsumption.htm, I, as an average American, consume somewhere around 31 pounds of cheese a year. That's close to one quarter of my body weight in cheese. So I decided to stop eating cheese, for just five days. And that's when I realized that this was going to be a challenge. I don't know if it is reverse psychology, but every meal I think of seems to somehow involve cheese: feta, goat, cheddar, mozzarella, just to name a few. For breakfast I usually have an omelet with cheese, or cheese melted on toast. For lunch a sandwich with cheese. Dinner is usually some sort of pasta; always with a sprinkling of parmesan. Would I be limited in my diet options when I decided to go cheese-less? Is my diet really that dependent upon cheese? Is the desire for cheese actually a physical chemical reaction within the brain, with addictive qualities, as suggested from an article on the website for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine? http://www.pcrm.org/news/commentary030519.html
