I'm from Wisconsin, home of, Colby cheese (yes named after the city), Spotted Cow beer, sold only in WI and of course a variety of cheese factories and artisan cheese makers. Kind of like craft beer has taken off, craft cheese is running through a popular phase.

"The shocking news comes from a study conducted at Canada�s McMaster University, in which the cheese-eating habits of a whopping 130,000, 35-70 year-olds, representing a staggering 21 countries were examined. Believe it or not, the research shows that participants who consumed a substantial amount of the yellow stuff�about two servings every day�experienced a decreased level of stroke and heart disease.

What�s interesting, though, is that those who abstained from indulging in cheese�or other dairy products for that matter�experienced a higher rate of mortality, to the tune of 44.4%. Talk about shocking!"

https://tiphero.com/eat-cheese-for-a-long-life

And no this isn't one of those, like the Onion or others, humor sites that post real sounding news. It's a real study. Make mine aged Blue Cheese with veins and spots, high cream level. Nothing more enjoyable than a cheese that's aged in a cave and smells like... well anyway.

Who'd have thought that a dairy product was good for anything except baby cows?

My currently favorite cheese is from Pag Island in Croatia, where they make it from sheep milk which eats very salty grass (that island is in the middle of the sea and is mostly made from rocks) and it makes such an interesting cheese. But it is priced very high too...

Love those fried cheese curds!

I think what is an OK amount to consume is different for each of us. We don't all fit the same mold. These studies are OK as a starter point and not the silver bullet of guide lines.

Most of us know that, I think.

As another person who was born and bred behind the cheddar curtain, this study is good news!

This is truly awesome news.
Tomorrow I fly from NC to Minneapolis, then onward to WI for the Ellsworth Cheese Curd festival where there will be 20+ cheese curd dishes.
For me fried curds are the way to go. 

My brother and sister-in-law and I went to Oshkosh a couple of years ago for the EAA air show. I ate fried cheese curds every day. They are the best!

except... the study is kind of useless - because it is discounting thing like say........

"city slickers" that sit on their butt all day, and farmers who are actually working in the field day in, day out...
could be excercise... could be lack of pollution compared to say NYC/L.A... could be more natural foods, could be many other things...

but taking one item - and isolating it to the exclusion of everything else is like saying since all astronauts drink water, drinking water makes will make you an astronaut...

Ummmm. Did you actually read any of this piece?

"The cheese-eating habits of a whopping 130,000, 35-70 year-olds, representing a staggering 21 countries were examined�"

Sorry, but that doesn't sound to me like a study that "took one item and isolated it to the exclusion of everything else."

Quote from: SuperPhoto on June 21, 2019, 16:08

except... the study is kind of useless - because it is discounting thing like say........

"city slickers" that sit on their butt all day, and farmers who are actually working in the field day in, day out...
could be excercise... could be lack of pollution compared to say NYC/L.A... could be more natural foods, could be many other things...

but taking one item - and isolating it to the exclusion of everything else is like saying since all astronauts drink water, drinking water makes will make you an astronaut...

Ummmm. Did you actually read any of this piece?

"The cheese-eating habits of a whopping 130,000, 35-70 year-olds, representing a staggering 21 countries were examined�"

Sorry, but that doesn't sound to me like a study that "took one item and isolated it to the exclusion of everything else."

pps, i.e., does that mean the 1 BILLION chinese people, and the 1 BILLION east indians, and half a BILLION arabs, who don't have a steady cheese diet, are at "44.4%" higher risk of those diseases? (somehow, they seem to be doing pretty well on the diet they do have)...

Love cheese. Lactose intolerant. I am doomed!   

I think what is an OK amount to consume is different for each of us. We don't all fit the same mold. These studies are OK as a starter point and not the silver bullet of guide lines.

With all these news stories, you are correct. Remember when it was a glass of wine a day? Hey the French cook everything in loads of butter. Chinese live longer because of the spices and low fat. They don't eat cheese...  That has more to do with refrigeration, but wait, Georgian (Russian) live the longest or used to?  Next week we will learn that coffee is great for us, and two weeks later how it's bad for us.

Sugar is bad, artificial sweeteners are bad = if it tastes good, spit it out!

I'm born and raised in Wisconsin, a Cheese Head, I'm lactose intolerant but cheese is no problem, just ice cream and milk. URP! I've never owned one of those stupid foam cheese heads. I have been to the National Cheese makers Convention as a guest of a cheese factory. Oh that was dreamy. Tasted the contest winning, awarded cheeses. Oh Wow. I'd love to get a media pass to that? (see always thinking stock aren't we?) 

By the way, working in Iowa last weekend, they had a new M&M Flavor, Hazelnut Spread, which is obviously an allusion to Nutella. Pretty good. Not appearing in WI yet, but the marketing people said nation wide roll out?

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Quote from: jefftakespics2 on June 22, 2019, 09:01

Love cheese. Lactose intolerant. I am doomed!   

there is already lactose-free cheese available...

Yes, and also pills to help people tolerate lactose.

My hubby won't consume either. His loss.

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Quote from: jefftakespics2 on June 22, 2019, 09:01

Love cheese. Lactose intolerant. I am doomed!   

there is already lactose-free cheese available...

Yes, and also pills to help people tolerate lactose.

My hubby won't consume either. His loss.

Definitely his loss - lactase pills are cheap, readily available and they really work.

Thanks for that. I'll share your message with him and � ahem � try to convince him to be, ya'know, kinda, sorta, a wee bit less stubborn. 

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Quote from: jefftakespics2 on June 22, 2019, 09:01

Love cheese. Lactose intolerant. I am doomed!   

 

My hubby is lactose intolerant too. So I eat the yummy cheese while he eats his heart out. 

lactose intolerants should be able to eat any aged cheese as there's no longer any lactose!

"This is because lactose is primarily in the whey, not the curds. When cheese is being made (with the exception of some soft cheeses that contain whey, like ricotta) the whey (liquid) is discarded and the lactose goes with it."  from the google

Thanks I should have looked. I always wondered why I could eat cheese and have no ill effects but a glass of milk or rich ice cream will have adverse effects.

Lovely blue cheese, yummy mold. 



Although another favorite is smoked provolone.