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Once you hit the postgrad years, your metabolism slows down, meaning we now have to give our food choices second thoughts. Fast food every day for lunch? Not anymore – gotta bring a salad at least two days a week. Make that daily Starbucks run a skinny, and maybe switch your happy hour beverage of choice from a couple of heavy beers to a vodka soda. However, there’s one food we all love that you no longer have to cut out: cheese.
We’ve heard some great news about cheese recently, from it improving the quality of your cheap wine to stimulating the reward center in your brain just like drugs do, but now, we actually have confirmation that it could possibly be good for your health as well. Nature Medicine recently published a study showing that cheese contains a compound called spermidine, which isn’t nearly as dirty as it sounds. Instead, spermidine works by lowering high blood pressure and reducing the risk of heart failure by stopping your heart muscles from thickening and regulating your heart’s pumping.
But wait, it gets better. In the study published in Nature Medicine, when spermidine was observed in rats, those who consumed it actually had statistically longer lifespans. So basically, if you eat cheese, not only will you have a heart like an ox, but you’ll outlive all of your peers… presumably, so you can keep eating more cheese. However, don’t start downing the queso just yet – cheeses containing significant amounts of spermidine are often aged cheeses, so while eating a daily pizza might not count, throwing heavy amounts of bleu cheese on everything you consume might just be the healthiest decision you make all day. Now go out to the cheese bar at your local Whole Foods and stock up on overpriced Swiss, because hey, your health comes first. .
[via Indy 100]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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I’m swamped at work (doing cardiovascular research, funny enough) so I’ll keep it brief:
1. No.
2. The paper (which at a quick glance seems straightforward and well-written) never once mentions cheese. The rats had supplemented water. Yes, cheese contains the compound in question (sometimes, to varying degrees) but there’s no mention of how much would be needed to see results. That’s like saying there’s a good amount of calcium in the chimichangas my friendly neighborhood taqueria makes so I should eat there every day. I pretty much do, but that’s besides the point.
3. If an article uses that many GIFs you should probably not take health advice from it.
4. You don’t need an excuse to eat disgusting amounts of cheese folks that’s a human right. Eat it because you enjoy it and just work out more or something, no need to justify yourself. Especially not during Thanksgiving.
Shit like this is why people do juice cleanses or put butter in their coffee, smdh
I’m sure you’re right, but why you gotta buzzkill?
Chill on me I said you don’t need an excuse to eat more right at the end. Live ur truth, especially if it’s queso
Might make “Live your truth, especially if it’s queso” my new Twitter bio.
I respect the move
*place derogatory comment about you and millennial lists here*
As someone from WI, I never have or will need an excuse to eat all the cheese I want.
Shouts to Culver’s
Lol my excuse to eat a lot of cheese is that it’s Thanksgiving