Some telltale fat facts about your eating habits.

Some telltale fat facts about your eating habits When it comes to healthful eating, particularly to cutting back on fat in the diet, Americans appear to have gone both forward and backward since 1965. In that year, sales of whole milk--which contains much more fat than low-fat or skim--averaged 110 quarts per person. Over the last 20-odd years, however, the demand for whole milk has dropped to half that amount while sales of low-fat milk increased from an average of 5 quarts per person to 39. That's the forward part.

The backward part is that the overall demand for milk-whole as well as low-fat--has declined. The implication, of course, is that fewer people are …