Posted on 12/11/2020 8:50:36 AM PST by mac_truck
There's Good News for Wine and Cheese Lovers
The foods we eat may have a direct impact on our cognitive acuity in our later years. This is the key finding of an Iowa State University research study spotlighted in an article published in the November 2020 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The study was spearheaded by principal investigator, Auriel Willette, an assistant professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Brandon Klinedinst, a Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate working in the Food Science and Human Nutrition department at Iowa State. The study is a first-of-its-kind large scale analysis that connects specific foods to later-in-life cognitive acuity.
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Here are four of the most significant findings from the study:
1) Cheese, by far, was shown to be the most protective food against age-related cognitive problems, even late into life;
2) The daily consumption of alcohol, particularly red wine, was related to improvements in cognitive function;
3) Weekly consumption of lamb, but not other red meats, was shown to improve long-term cognitive prowess; and
4) Excessive consumption of salt is bad, but only individuals already at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease may need to watch their intake to avoid cognitive problems over time.
(Excerpt) Read more at research.iastate.edu ...
Your salt pink?
Found what makes it pink. Yeti urine. :-)
As long as it isn't yellow...
Around here, lamb is around $12/LB. I can get New York steak at $6/LB. I think I will snack on cheese and drink the wine with my steak.
So... I need more cheese.
“Like no other reason for death existed in the first century other than diet.”
We have a lot more ways to die now than we did then. So considering the length of life, and the simplicity of their lifestyle, there was a greater chance of dying of old age earlier then than now with the lack of medical support alone. Just not based upon artificial things like diabetes type II, which didn’t exist until 1940, and the just under 40K that died in car crashes in 2019. I don’t have the comparison on who died falling off a camel.
The problem is that diet is a major part of the overall health of a person. They had no idea what they were eating would do to them down the road, so they ate what they liked that didn’t have any immediate appearance of conflict to them. And until enough people died, they consumed all kinds of things. Even our history on this continent, nobody I know raises dogs for food anymore. And buffalo steaks are gone a lot of years ago.
It’s very hard to determine consumables as there is always someone out there that has a problem of some type. (Sometimes years later) So what it all comes down to is you can’t eat or drink anything without possibly causing something on the body to fail.
I just eat what I have a taste for that I can afford. I’m over 70 and still have all my own teeth, so it isn’t too hard. And if it kills me in 15 years, I will be one of the most surprised people around that I lasted that long. But in the meantime, I eat what I like cause it doesn’t make a whole lot of difference as I’m not stupid, or senile enough, to eat rat poison. At least I go happy.....and full.
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My cardiologist asked me if I smoked. I said No.
He asked me if I drank. I said yes.
He asked me if I drank socially. I said no.
He looked at me -— kind of astounded.
I said -— I drink about 3 to 4 ounces of red wine just before bed. Because of the good resveratrol in it and to wash down 4 pills I take before I go to bed. I am alone —— so yes -— it is wine and drinking, but it is not social!!!!!
Nowadays, Social Drinking is difficult to make happen without a concern troll talking about Social Distancing.
“Distancing” defeats the main purpose of going out for a drink, which usually is to meet and speak with other people.
The study took place in the UK, so here are the 10 most popular cheeses the British are eating.
1. Cheddar
2. Mozzarella
3. Red Leicester
4. Brie
5. Parmesan
6. Stilton
7. Wensleydale
8. Feta
9. Camembert
10. Cream cheese
Stilton is a marvellous blue cheese; melted on top of a serving of fine beef and you’ll discover a whole new world of divine.
KILLER in a hamburger, too.
“Cheese is out; I’m Lactose Intolerant. I do miss the taste.”
I’m extremely lactose intolerant. Yet eat cheese daily without problem after taking a lactase caplet.
Hmmm... just 28 grams of Cheddar Cheese will be about 7% of the RDA for salt.
My Mom is on a restricted salt / sodium diet. It is very hard to keep her intake to only 1500 mg per day. Granted, part of that is because she’s 90 y/o and forgets, say, that pizza she had for lunch. When she was 70, 80, up to around 85, she hated salty food. Then she redeveloped a “salt tooth”. (Rolling my eyes..)
cheddar and other cheeses are very low lactose or none at all.
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