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Cheese & Your Health: CVD, Cancer & Metabolic Syndrome - Cheesy Science or Scientific Revelation? A Brief Review

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Cheeses come in all forms and colors. Cheese is not exactly the first food that comes to mind when we think about "healthy eating". Rightly so? Today's overview of recent cheese studies tries to answer this question. The article will, among other things, also address the claim that cheese was addictive (see red box) and / or that the consumption of a dairy product with a saturated fat content that is second only to that of butter would harm your cardiovascular and metabolic health. So, where do we start? Netherlands? Well, even though the Dutch are famous for the many different types of cheese they produce and consume, they are probably not the ones who "invented" it. Rather than that it appears to be certain that the first cheeses were produced 5,000 BC - accidentally. You can learn more about dairy at the SuppVersity Dairy Has Branched-Chain Fatty Acids! Is There Sth. Like a Dairy Weight Loss Miracle? There is Good A2 and Bad A1 Dairy, ...
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Yogurts, Cheeses & Beyond - A Comprehensive Review of the Potential Health Benefits of Fermented Dairy Products

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Yogurt does not have to be served this way to be healthy, but I bet many of your friends and relatives would be amazed and much more likely to pass on the cream cake or tiramisu if the option was an appetizing dessert like that. In a world where being vegan is "the new sexy" and eating animal products "the new smoking", dairy has lost much of its former appeal. I mean, we all remember how the literal "glass of milk" has been marketed as a daily health booster, right? Well, times have changed and that despite the fact that an impartial review of the evidence suggests more benefits than downsides to dairy consumption. Specifically fermented dairy, first and foremost yogurt, but also cheese can ,   and in the case of yogurt maybe even  should  be part of your of your diet. And that's not just because both are an often forgotten, but essential part hailed "Mediterranean diet" (Vasilopoulou. 2013). The same diet of which recent studies say tha...
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Dairy - The Good, the Bad or The Ugly? Latest Studies On Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Obesity and Co. Plus: What Dairy Peptides Do For Your Heart, Gut, Brain, etc.

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Do you take Liz Hurley's word and set all warnings about the "non-paleo-ness" of dairy in general and milk in particular at naught? Or do you put faith into the "got milk?" campaign? Personally, I'd suggest not to do one or the other. I'd rather suggest you join me and take a look at a selection of recent studies. If you've been following the SuppVersity Facebook News and / or have read previous SuppVersity articles on milk and dairy , you will be aware that I am not exactly convinced that the mere existence of allergic reactions and the "fact" that "our ancestors did not drink milk before ..." *put your favorite guesstimate here* allows for the conclusion that we are "not meant" to consume cow's milk. I am nevertheless open to scientific arguments that would convince me that dairy is bad for me - it's just that I don't see this evidence outside of "western diet + dairy makes you fat and that make...
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Fat Advantage: 61% Lower Rates of Metabolic Syndrome in High Fat, 101% Higher Rates in Low Fat Dairy Lovers

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"Got milk" is not the question health conscious supermen and -women should pose. "Got full fat milk, fermented dairy and cheese" is the line to remember (the original image was part of the "Got Milk Campaign") While diet fads come and go, the advice the wise (not seldom obese or otherwise sick) experts on the boards and panels of our well-meaning governments is calling "dietary recommendations" is about as resistant to reform as the dreaded MSRA strains are to the antibiotics doctors are throwing at you whenever you sneeze. Against that background the recent trend we are seeing with respect to an increase in the recommended amount of dietary protein does almost amount to a quantum leap; a leap with a significant caveat, however. A fat caveat, so to say: " A healthy diet includes [...] lean meats, poultry, fish, beans and fat-free or low-fat dairy products " (NIH. 2012). Luckily, you as a SuppVersity reader do not have to rely ...
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A Fat D-Ficiency! Do You Really Need More Vitamin D or Simply More Fatty Foods? Study Shows, Even 50.000 IU of Vitamin D3 Useless, When You Ingest It Without Fat.

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 Image 1: Fatty fish and organ meats aside, whole eggs and full-fat dairy are your best food choices to raise vitamin D levels - I would even venture the guess that they (combined with fish and organ meats) would make supplementation obsolete, even in the Nothern hemisphere (if you "load up" on sun in the summer). Those of you who have been following my daily blogposts, here at the SuppVersity for more than the last couple of days will be aware that I am one of the few outspoken vitamin D (-supplementation) skeptics . I am by no means doubting the scientific data which clearly indicates that low vitamin D levels (low in medical, not in "Internet blogosphere" terms) are associated with all sorts of diseases. I do not question the hypothesis that, from a biomolecular perspective, vitamin D has more of a hormone than of a "vitamin" (=essential nutrient). And I do not challenge the use of vitamin D(3) supplements by people with low or even borderline lo...
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