Blotting Your Pizza Removes How Much Fat and Calories?

We all eat pizza. Especially pepperoni pizza. Pizza comes in all shapes and forms. My girlfriend Heather will always blot the grease off the top of a pepperoni pizza when we order it out or make it at home and I always used to give her a hard time about it. Little did I know she was the smart one or our relationship.

A study has found that blotting pizza with a napkin to remove excess grease can save your life!

The study (by LabDoor magazine) says dabbing extra grease off the surface of a pizza slice can save the average pizza-eating American the equivalent of 20 pizza slices, or nearly 2 pounds a year.

Blotting pizza also gets rid of 4.5 grams of fat and more than 40 calories. The average American reportedly eats about 23 pounds of pizza every year. I think I 'raise the bar' on that average. Here's more on the story: Pizza blotting - Alan