Making healthful changes in your life is the best thing you can do for both your physical and emotional well-being. In order to understand more about what motivates the people who successfully take action day-by-day to improve their health, we polled 1,072 adults across the country. To test your nutrition and exercise knowledge, take our Health IQ Quiz, drawn from the 2007 Cooking Light Insight survey. Eating Habits The survey found that, for the most part, people were well versed in nutrition issues. For example, most knew that fatty acids in fish are good for you, a multivitamin can’t take the place of food, LDL is ‘bad’ cholesterol, and some high-fat foods such as avocados are healthful. Still, there were some areas of confusion. How do you compare? 70 percent of American adults drink lower fat milk instead of whole milk 59 percent eat chicken with the skin removed 54 percent take vitamins 52 percent use lower fat alternatives when cooking 51 percent read nutrition labels on food Fitness Findings Nearly half of Americans feel better on the days when they exercise, though just as many admit finding time […]