Cautions. Despite all of this, cheese is a high-fat and high-calorie food. Depending on the variety of cheese you eat, you're getting about 100 calories per ounce and about 6 to 9 grams of fat, mostly of the saturated kind. ... Cheese contains lactose, a sugar that can't be digested by lactose-intolerant people.Apr 30, 2015read more >>