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Eating Cheese Every Day Might Actually be Healthy
New York Daily News ^ | Tuesday, December 5, 2017 | Ariel Scotii

Posted on 12/05/2017 11:02:39 PM PST by nickcarraway

A nib of cheese a day keeps the heart disease away.

A recent analysis of more than 200,000 people showed that those who ate a little bit of cheese every day were less likely to develop heart disease compared to those who rarely or never ate it at all. The researchers from China and the Netherlands examined data compiled from 15 previous studies where most of the participants were tracked for at least 10 years.

Overall, those who ate more cheese had a 14% lower risk of developing heart disease and were 10% less likely to have a stroke than their cheese-averse peers. But experts warn that the findings were not linear — meaning the study does not advocate eating enormous quantities of cheese. People who seemed to have health benefits from cheese ate about 40 grams a day or, a square the size of a matchbook.

"This is not the same as eating a big slice of cheesy pizza every day," director of aortic surgery at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Allan Stewart, who was not involved in the study, told Time. "(But the findings were) certainly different from what people might expect."

People are living longer but less-healthy lives Not Released (NR) The dairy product contains healthful ingredients like calcium, protein and probiotics, said the authors of a new study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition. (MAGONE/GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO) The dairy product contains healthful ingredients like calcium, protein and probiotics, said the authors of a new study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition. But cheese, like other milk-based products, contains high levels of saturated fat — which can cause high cholesterol and an increased risk of heart disease.

In the study, cheese was only found to have an association with lowered health risks, not a direct cause and effect. The link might be because people who eat cheese daily are already healthier or because they have disposable income, the researchers said. But the good might outweigh the bad with cheese.

"Cheese can be high in probiotics, which tend to put you in less of an inflammatory state," Stewart said. "There is some evidence that cheese — as a substitute for milk, for example — may actually have a protective effect on the heart. No one's saying you should definitely go out and eat 40 grams of cheese a day. But on the upside, a bit of cheese on a cracker doesn't sound unreasonable."


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cheese
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To: nickcarraway

here’s the link the article is based on in case your browser freezes like ALL of my browsers do when i go to Daily News:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-016-1292-z

plus a whole bunch of other sites with the same news that don’t freeze browsers:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cheese+healthy&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw8MGvoPbXAhXDMGMKHbKjB84Q_AUIDCgD&biw=979&bih=310&dpr=1.4


41 posted on 12/06/2017 12:44:53 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, good, as I eat some form of cheese twice a day.


42 posted on 12/06/2017 1:40:37 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: sparklite2

How do you get it out of the traps?


43 posted on 12/06/2017 1:42:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Just remember, the early bird gets the worm. but the second mouse gets the cheese.


44 posted on 12/06/2017 1:46:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Very carefully.


45 posted on 12/06/2017 1:48:45 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: nickcarraway

Rb’s smoked cheese pro-tip:

On a very cold night light three charcoal brickets on one side of the grill and add a chunk of hickory.

Place a couple of blocks of your favorite hard cheese on a piece of Alum. foil on the opposite side of the grill.

Let it smoke for no more than two hours, flipping them over about halfway through the process.

Has to be a cold night. If the inside of the grill gets over 100 degrees the cheese starts melting.

I do it in my smoker. On cold nights the interior temp doesn’t even hit 50 degrees.


46 posted on 12/06/2017 2:17:45 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: N. Theknow

“I hate the taste of cheese”

I am so sorry.


47 posted on 12/06/2017 2:21:22 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: Adder
You raise an interesting topic about appellation and cheddar.

*Vermont* is another brand altogether.

This article references the prosecution of a maple syrup company violating the *made in Vermont* label. I know the guy who did this. He bought a commodity of syrup in Rhode Island, bottled it, and sold it a *Vermont Maple syrup*. Turns out the syrup was cane sugar. Guy spent ten years in Federal prison. They/VT take these things *SERIOUSLY*.

48 posted on 12/07/2017 5:34:23 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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