Posted on 06/18/2024 12:40:28 PM PDT by Red Badger
A massive study of 2.3 million people has found that, independent of socioeconomic factors, mental well-being may be the most important single aspect to healthy aging and living longer lives. But a surprise finding was that those who reported the best mental health and stress resilience, which boosted well-being, also seemed to eat more cheese.
Yes, cheese – something we've been making around the world and eating for more than 4,000 years, as recorded on the walls of tombs in ancient Egypt. In fact, a few years ago the world's oldest cheese – aged a few centuries beyond palatability – was dug up in the region.
The link between cheese and well-being was an unexpected finding in the study conducted by a team of researchers led by Tian-Ge Wang, out of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
"To inform meaningful health policies, we need fine-grained causal evidence on which dimensions of socio-economic status affect longevity and the mediating roles of modifiable factors such as lifestyle and disease," the researchers noted in the paper.
They looked at eight datasets encompassing a total of 2.3 million genetically diverse Europeans, using DNA-driven, two-sample Mendelian randomization to not just link a multitude of factors to healthy aging, but identify stronger, causal impacts. Naturally, it's complicated, because of what we know of how much genetics, lifestyle, wealth and education are inextricably linked to disease, health and lifespan.
In order to extract meaningful data, the team looked at mental well-being on the genetically independent phenotype of aging (aging-GIP) and the five common traits of this robust aging phenotype – resilience, self-rated health, healthspan, parental lifespan and longevity. These results were adjusted to account for socio-economic factors.
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I don’t care if it’s brie or gubmint cheese...I’ll cut it anyway.
I’m 98.6% Northern European. Most dairy cows come from Northern European countries. I’m 72 and I am completely lactose tolerant. So, I will continue to drink my milk and eat my cheese. Vegans can go screw themselves.
French got something right!
—> To me it’s like rotten grape juice
Good wine is extraordinary.
Bad wine is lousy
I have significant digestive tract issues if I drink milk.
However, I consume significant quantities of cheese every day which my digestive tract tolerates.
The zealots must have an interesting diet.
I prefer a good IPA... to any wine.
Sounds like you’re lactose intolerant.
The lactose content is far less in many cheeses than in milk. The enzyme lactase can help with that and it’s widely available over the counter about anywhere.
I remember government cheese. It was surprisingly good.
Cheese flatulance makes you happy. Improved mental health.
Compassion... because you have to figure that after a 40 day-impasse -- what to do what to do -- the captain needed a little cheese to go with his whine:
1 Samuel 1716 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17. And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers:
18. And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look how your brothers fare, and take a sign from them:
Even if you were, aged cheese - i.e. pretty much any hard cheese - will be lactose free.
Milk, ice cream, etc, don’t bother me at all. My poor sister. She had a milk allergy as an infant, and it has turned into lactose intolerance as an adult. She will eat dairy on occasion, but she keeps Lactaid with her at all times.
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