Good news: cheese is healthier than we thought

Look, now this is some delicious news for Blue Monday. Especially for me as a cheese lover—and for you too, if you are one as well. New research has been conducted, and it turns out that cheese is much healthier than we initially thought. PARTY.

New York University recently conducted research into cheese and what it does to your body and well-being, and actually, it’s all good news.

You don’t necessarily gain weight from cheese?!

I found this hard to believe, but according to the research, it really is true. Not even from the fattiest types of cheese. Of course, you gain weight because it’s food—but not because it’s so unhealthy. It also has no effect on developing type 2 diabetes, and there are even indications that it may protect you against it. And your cholesterol? Eating cheese apparently has no effect on that either. Too good to be true, it almost sounds like, but Lisa Young, a professor at NYU, really does say so.

And several professors agree with her. Cheese is said to be packed with vitamin K, and all those saturated fats aren’t so bad either, because of the way cheese is made. And no, all those fats won’t make your cholesterol shoot sky-high either. At least, not as much as butter would. But then again, if that’s your comparison. Hmmm…

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Source: Washington Post