Your Cheese Habit Probably Won't Make You Obese

[Suzanimal]

That's Gouda news!

Bring on the full-fat yogurt and coffee with cream!

In an effort to study how diet affects long-term weight gain, researchers have spent the past 16 years analyzing the diets of 120,000 men and women in three separate long-term studies. The researchers' efforts were recently published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, where they revealed a number of noteworthy discoveries: Diets rich in red and processed meats were heavily linked with weight gain. Eating more yogurt, seafood, nuts and skinless chicken, on the other hand, is most closely associated with maintaining a healthy body weight.

But for cheese addicts, the most exciting finding may be what the group discovered about dairy: Full fat cheese and whole and low-fat milk didn't appear to tip the scale in either direction. In other words, contrary to popular belief, milk fat doesn't lead to long-term weight gain.

What's more, the finding suggests that eating cheesein its full fat form could be better for your waistline than low-fat versions. Researchers at Tufts University found that when people stuck to low-fat dairy products, they actually ingested more carbohydrates -- a habit that, long term, could lead to weight gain. "This suggests that people compensate, over years, for the lower calories in low-fat dairy by increasing their carb intake," said Jessica Smith, Ph.D., one of the study's leads.

While this news does give dairy enthusiasts a reason to celebrate, it should not be taken as permission to subsist on an all-cheese diet. Cheese tends to be high in saturated fat and cholesterol, both of which can increase a person's risk for heart disease and stroke. Many kinds of cheese are high in sodium, too. Salt-laden diets are associated with kidney trouble, hypertension and digestive diseases.

Moral of the story? Eat your cheese in moderation -- but don't worry too much about your waistline.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...ushpmg00000023

[heavenlyboy34]

Bad study is bad. Doesn't control for lifestyle, age, and many other factors. :P But yes, cheese is good for you.

[dannno]

I associate a lot of red meat eaters with eating bread and lots of carbs and I associate chicken eaters with rice, vegetables and more healthy grain options.

Eating grains makes you fat, especially bread. Eating red meat does not make you fat, grass fed red meat is especially good for you.

I like full fat cheese and dairy, especially grass fed butter.

[heavenlyboy34]

I associate a lot of red meat eaters with eating bread and lots of carbs and I associate chicken eaters with rice, vegetables and more healthy grain options.

Eating grains makes you fat, especially bread. Eating red meat does not make you fat, grass fed red meat is especially good for you.

I like full fat cheese and dairy, especially grass fed butter.

This is correct. Lots of B vitamins, protein, and other good stuff in red meant.

[Ronin Truth]

But it may case you to scurry around and chew holes in the woodwork.

[Ronin Truth]

Though constipation may become an issue.

[Zippyjuan]

Article also notes:

it should not be taken as permission to subsist on an all-cheese diet. Cheese tends to be high in saturated fat and cholesterol, both of which can increase a person's risk for heart disease and stroke. Many kinds of cheese are high in sodium, too. Salt-laden diets are associated with kidney trouble, hypertension and digestive diseases.

[donnay]

I associate a lot of red meat eaters with eating bread and lots of carbs and I associate chicken eaters with rice, vegetables and more healthy grain options.

Eating grains makes you fat, especially bread. Eating red meat does not make you fat, grass fed red meat is especially good for you.

I like full fat cheese and dairy, especially grass fed butter.

Raw butter and cheese is the best!

[Acala]

Article also notes:

There is no solid evidence linking either saturated fat or dietary cholesterol with CVD.

[heavenlyboy34]

There is no solid evidence linking either saturated fat or dietary cholesterol with CVD.

QFT

[luctor-et-emergo]

I'm having some grass fed local cheese with Dijon mustard... Oh and some pickles and ham and a some small tomatoes with salt oil and herbs. Nice little snack!

Have to celebrate the good news. Although I already knew this...

[dannno]

Article also notes:

Saturated dietary fat and cholesterol don't increase a person's risk for heart disease or stroke.

[heavenlyboy34]

Saturated dietary fat and cholesterol don't increase a person's risk for heart disease or stroke.

Also QFT.

[Thor]

Article also notes:

it should not be taken as permission to subsist on an all-cheese diet. Cheese tends to be high in saturated fat and cholesterol, both of which can increase a person's risk for heart disease and stroke. Many kinds of cheese are high in sodium, too. Salt-laden diets are associated with kidney trouble, hypertension and digestive diseases.

What kind of moron would be on an all cheese diet? The fact you had to point that out shows the level of negativity you bring to EVERY thread...

[CPUd]

Cheese is good for when you know you ate too much fiber, and you want to mitigate what's going to happen over the next 6-18 hours.

[amy31416]

Vitamin absorption--you need fats. Preferably the good fats and a decent amount of it.

It really sucks how all this low-fat bull$#@! from the 80's & 90's won't get out of people's heads.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

The fact you [ZippyJuan] had to point that out shows the level of negativity you bring to EVERY thread...

Yep. + rep. Neg rep for Zip.

[Acala]

Article also notes:

Even our idiotic government has finally stopped the war on dietary cholesterol, for which there was never any evidence in the first place. Give them another twenty years and maybe they will figure out that saturated fat in the diet is also not a problem.

[acptulsa]

"This suggests that people compensate, over years, for the lower calories in low-fat dairy by increasing their carb intake," said Jessica Smith, Ph.D., one of the study's leads.

These people expect us to take them seriously, but they never seem to understand that people crave things for the nutrients in them, not just for the fuel to keep moving.

Pregnant women do not demand dill pickles in the middle of the night because they need the calories. There's something else in there that they are after. And if they can't get dill pickles, they'll consume a million calories if each contains a little of the thing they need which dill pickles have a lot of.

Satisfying food had a damned sight more stuff in it besides calories. If calories were all there is to it, we could all eat three cupcakes a day and be perfectly happy. Educated idiots are still idiots.

[Zippyjuan]

Saturated dietary fat and cholesterol don't increase a person's risk for heart disease or stroke.

Compared to other fats, according to the study. It did not say that saturated fats do not contribute to disease or stroke.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0...ase-link/?_r=0

But the new research, published on Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, did not find that people who ate higher levels of saturated fat had more heart disease than those who ate less. Nor did it find less disease in those eating higher amounts of unsaturated fat, including monounsaturated fat like olive oil or polyunsaturated fat like corn oil.

“My take on this would be that it’s not saturated fat that we should worry about” in our diets, said Dr. Rajiv Chowdhury, the lead author of the new study and a cardiovascular epidemiologist in the department of public health and primary care at Cambridge University.

But Dr. Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, said the findings should not be taken as “a green light” to eat more steak, butter and other foods rich in saturated fat. He said that looking at individual fats and other nutrient groups in isolation could be misleading, because when people cut down on fats they tend to eat more bread, cold cereal and other refined carbohydrates that can also be bad for cardiovascular health.

Alice H. Lichtenstein, a nutritional biochemist at Tufts University, agreed that “it would be unfortunate if these results were interpreted to suggest that people can go back to eating butter and cheese with abandon,” citing evidence that replacing saturated fat with foods that are high in polyunsaturated fats – instead of simply eating more carbohydrates – reduces cardiovascular risk.

Both types of fat had similar rates of disease. Not no disease in high fat consumers. Moderation in all things.