Thread: Your Body Loves This Food - Even More Than Its Detractors Like to Demonize It - Dr Mercola

Full-Fat Cheese Has Many Health Benefits, Including Weight Loss

Story at-a-glance

• Cheese has long been demonized for its saturated fat content, but research shows it has many benefits, including improved cardiovascular health and a lower risk for obesity and diabetes
• Eating high-fat cheese can help improve your health by raising your high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, thought to be protective against metabolic diseases and heart disease
• Other types of full-fat dairy products, such as milk and yogurt, also have far greater health benefits than their low-fat counterparts, including a lower risk for obesity and diabetes

By Dr. Mercola

Trading saturated fats for added sugars and trans fats in our diet is among the worst lifestyle alterations to occur in modern history. We now know this is a recipe for obesity, heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases.1,2

Many of these illnesses are now showing up in children, who are exposed to these ingredients even prior to birth through their mothers' diets.

The preponderance of research shows that once you reach 18 percent of your daily calories from added sugar, there's a200 percent increase in metabolic harm that promotes prediabetes and diabetes.3

Fortunately, the low-fat recommendation — which flourished as a result of flawed science linking heart disease with saturated fat and the suppression of research showing sugar was to blame — is finally, albeit slowly, starting to lose its stronghold.

While still not ideal, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans4,5 do recognize that reducing TOTAL fat intake has no bearing on obesity or heart disease risk. Instead, the guidelines rightfully warn that sugar and refined grains are the primary culprits.

Unfortunately, the guidelines fall far short by still suggesting a 10 percent limit on saturated fats specially.

Harmful fats found in fried foods are another factor driving disease rates skyward. Fried foods are particularly bad for your heart and cardiovascular health, raising your risk for heart failure.6

Meanwhile, research has consistently demonstrated that low-fat diets do not prevent heart disease. It's actually trans fat and oxidized cholesterol — not saturated fat and healthy dietary cholesterol — that clog your arteries.7

Research Exonerates High-Fat Cheese

Cheese has long been demonized for its saturated fat content, but as the saturated fat myth has come under increasing scrutiny, this food may soon experience a revival as well.

Many recent studies into the health effects of cheese have come to exonerating conclusions. As Joanna Maricato, an analyst at New Nutrition Business, stated last year:8

"In the past, studies focused on analyzing individual nutrients and their effects on the body. Now, there is a growing tendency to look at foods and food groups as a whole ...

As a consequence, amazing results are appearing from studies on dairy and particularly cheese, proving that the combination of nutrients in cheese has many promising health benefits that were never considered in the past."

Most recently, a Danish research team concluded that eating high-fat cheese helps improve your health by raising your high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.9,10 Higher HDL levels are thought to be protective against metabolic diseases and heart disease.

Nearly 140 adults were enrolled in the 12-week study to investigate the biological effects of full-fat cheese. Divided into three groups, the first two groups were told to eat either 80 grams of high-fat or reduced fat cheese each day. The third group ate 90 grams of bread and jam each day, with no cheese.

None of the groups saw any significant changes in their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, but the high-fat cheese group increased their HDLs...

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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...rid=1685780118

I came across articles a long time ago that said taking the fat out of milk makes it undigestible and very hard on your organs. I also learned that some of those organizations that used to send skim milk powder overseas for children had to quit doing so because of the damage it was doing to their liver and eyes, if I remember correctly...

Good article, thanks Fuego.

I don't drink milk much at all. As a matter of fact I can't remember the last time. But I always liked whole milk. I've always told people, why are you using that 2% and 1% crap? The fat in there is good for you! People just can't seem to get this. Like older people and margarine. Eat real butter people! Lord help me. lol.

Originally Posted by fuego

I don't drink milk much at all. As a matter of fact I can't remember the last time. But I always liked whole milk. I've always told people, why are you using that 2% and 1% crap? The fat in there is good for you! People just can't seem to get this. Like older people and margarine. Eat real butter people! Lord help me. lol.

SO agree!!!

Originally Posted by fuego

I don't drink milk much at all. As a matter of fact I can't remember the last time. But I always liked whole milk. I've always told people, why are you using that 2% and 1% crap? The fat in there is good for you! People just can't seem to get this. Like older people and margarine. Eat real butter people! Lord help me. lol.

I only put milk in my coffee, and I use skim. I like the sweetness of it. I don't "drink" milk by itself. Any I prefer full fat cheese. Low fat cheese doesn't melt well. I also use real butter.

I pan fry chicken for chicken marsala or chicken francais in a combination of olive oil and butter. Love it!

Thanks...

We added real butter, real cheese and whole milk(rarely though) and pure 'peanut' butter with no attidtives...back into our diet several years ago and I can tell you nothing gives a lift for an' I need energy' moment than a spoon full of peanut butter..in a few minutes good healthy energy sets in, not the high from sweets..just good sustained energy..

We also discovered Duke's Mayo that has no sugar in it...

They have lied for years on this....but now that people have access to information for themselves we are educating ourselves..

I shared before how I was reading on low carb and good protein diets and how bad they were. One night helping my granddaughter with her biology I read in her book...right there in black and white...how cells thrive better on healthy fat and good protein with sustained energy rather than the energy obtained from high carbs..

We went to real butter about 2 years ago. I love milk and drink a lot of it (2%). I eat cheese daily for the protein. We enjoy cottage cheese and peanut butter. I don't buy low fat cheese or cottage cheese because I really don't care for it.

Originally Posted by Susan

I only put milk in my coffee, and I use skim. I like the sweetness of it. I don't "drink" milk by itself. Any I prefer full fat cheese. Low fat cheese doesn't melt well. I also use real butter.

I pan fry chicken for chicken marsala or chicken francais in a combination of olive oil and butter. Love it!

Try a mix of coconut oil and butter and sprinkles with lemon pepper (the salt free one)! Oh my goodness!!! Some kind of yumminess there!

Originally Posted by Susan

I only put milk in my coffee, and I use skim. I like the sweetness of it. I don't "drink" milk by itself. Any I prefer full fat cheese. Low fat cheese doesn't melt well. I also use real butter.

I pan fry chicken for chicken marsala or chicken francais in a combination of olive oil and butter. Love it!

I use heavy whipping cream in my coffee. I can't think of anything I use milk for. Never been a milk drinker. Never liked it. I hated having to drink it going to school over the years. The only thing I would really use it for is cereal and I don't eat cereal.

Originally Posted by A.J.

Try a mix of coconut oil and butter and sprinkles with lemon pepper (the salt free one)! Oh my goodness!!! Some kind of yumminess there!

Speaking of that, I've gotten used to a tablespoon of coconut oil in my coffee when I drink it (to up my fat content and for the health benefits of coconut oil). I really like the taste along with the heavy cream. Sometimes I'll add the tablespoon of butter for the 'bullet proof' coffee.