Why are there no skinny mexicans then?
With the introduction of the cow to Mexico the native Mexicans (who weren't being killed off by plagues and such) quickly discovered they could not eat European cheese without serious distress.
It probably took them two weeks to figure out how to remove the milk sugar, and they did so with gusto.
Due to a lack of refrigeration back in the 1500s they didn't really have the opportunity to learn about the low-sugar characteristics of aged cheddar.
I've found that Spanish cheeses still need to be "aged" to grind out that last little bit of offending lactose.
Now, the most important thing ~ cheese has it's own statin. Otherwise baby cows (calves) would be overwhelmed by the cholesterol in their mothers' milk and would die by the carload before reaching 135 lbs.
When you eat Queso or any other cheese you receive the benefit of the anti-cholesterol drug formerly in the milk. I suspect the process that removes or reduces the lactose also de-links the anti-cholesterol drug and makes it more available to do whatever it does to allow the retenton of HDL and the elimination of LDL. That right there would lead to some serious obesity if all you ate were beans, cornmeal and Queso. The solution is for the Latinas to cut back on the cornmeal!
There are tons of skinny Mexicans, in Mexico.
Queso Fresco, loosely translated to cool or young cheese. I’m wondering how this is different than cottage cheese. I remember people on cottage cheese diets 40 years ago.
I thinks somebody is trying to outsource our fad diets. Mexican fad diets nowing doing the work that American fad diets refuse to do.