KFI:
A new book called The Cheese Trap might make you want skip dairy altogether.
Dr. Neal Barnard, the book’s author and founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, says cheese is fattening and addictive too.
He says it’s addictive because the dairy proteins inside can act as mild opiates. The fragments of protein attach to the same brain receptors as heroin and other narcotics, and each bite of cheese gives you a small hit of dopamine.
Barnard calls it “dairy crack:”
“Cheese is not just tasty. It actually contains concentrated opiates, along with salt and grease, that tend to keep us hooked.”
♫ “What a friend we have in cheeses…” ♪
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How will you know when to smile when you have your picture taken?…
yes … I confess … I too am a cheese huffer!
oh, the shame to my family
(“It’s like, Science!” … yeah, right … get a life, cow-hater)
Are people who are addicted to cheese likely to cut the cheese more often than non addicts?
Cheese is NOT addictive. Now step away from my cheddar before I bite your head off.
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OK, yeah, cheesy goodness is habit forming, but how the hell do you keep it lit?
What a load of nonsense! I eat cheese almost evert day, and I’m not addicted.
cheese is addictive like “crack”
No, no it isn’t not even close.
Dr. Barnard please step away from the crack.
I can stop eating cheeseburgers anytime I want to. i just don’t want to.
Several decades ago school districts were adopting elementary and 7th & 8th grade “science” textbooks that had aweful chapters on drug abuse.
One of the things that helped me decide to join with a demonstration march through a town, was the equating, in the text, of chocolate addiction to cocaine addiction. The text also had great photos showing the sniffing of such via a rolled up dollar bill, mainlining into a vein in the arm, among other things. The chapter was mainly a how-to.
I prowl the streets & back alleys at night … looking for the cheese ‘dealer’ …. I’ve lost family members, good friends, lovers, jobs over my addiction … I hang around with the rest of the cheese addicts under the bridge, trying to find my latest ‘fix’ I’VE GOT CHEESE TRACKS ON MY ARMS! GOD, HELP ME!!!!!
… whadda load of Gouda
@ PJ….yep chocolate cheese fondue…..I think your on to something…..maybe with some sourdough bread or raspberries….
I grew up on a beef farm (about 30 head) in Wisconsin. My father was a large-animal veterinarian, most of whose clients were dairy farmers. When they started talking about dietary cholesterol as a cause of heart disease (disregarding heredity), I viewed it as an attack on the beef and dairy industries. For one thing, cholesterol, or, rather, the steroid core of the cholesterol molecule, is the raw material from which the body builds cell walls.
Just try a Ham & Havarti cheese sandwich ,that will do it.
annie Go Trump
We use milk protein derivatives as a mild sedative in veterinary medicine. Works well in cats for behavioral issues but there is not enough in plain dairy to have much of an effect.
No coffee, no cheese, no wine, no red meat, no pork fat, no butter, no gluten, no sugar, no shellfish, no carbonation, no grilled food…
I am beginning to believe “people” like Dr. Neal Barnard subsist entirely on spirulina and munching Dr Oz’z butt nuggets.
Is there any rainbow these people will not pee on? Cheese? Really???
Yeah okay so it’s crack GIMME $5 WORTH OF CRACK NOW!!!
Mmmmm. Bleu Cheese.
On flank steak.
Mashed taters.
Buttered, fresh green beans.
Apple pie with a slice of cheese.
Guinness, 1 pint, cold.
A good cigar.
Homemade 4 cheese macaroni (blend of cheddar, Gouda, Gruyere and Parmesan) with cooked lobster chunks mixed in.
…to die for
Oh please. People have been eating cheese for a long, long time. A great way to preserve milk. All these so called experts just need to look at the history of eating to understand how humans survived by learning how to keep a dependable food supply. I raised my kids on good cheddar. By the way, there is a healthy omega 7 fat in cheese which is not found in many other foods. So there!
What Mischie said. My mom’s side of the family make a lot of yogurt, cheeses and pudding out of overaged milk. It ain’t kilt nobody!
I see that no one mentioned Cheeze Whiz (that sort of sounds vaguely obscene) or Velveeta. Or are they even considered to be cheese? How about Cheetos? Only if you got the munchies, man.
@MJA — I’ve always sorta wanted to make cheese, like that expensive chevre. Love the taste, but hate the cost. What kinds do your relatives make?
Cheese? I must not have an addictive personality. It’s good, but it needs crackers sometimes and maybe it’s because I’m not a big fan of crackers. (Is that racist?)
Damn CheeseHeads. Always knew there was something wrong with packer backers.
I’m like a cheeseaholic, except for alcohol instead of cheese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvppFMRy0ZE
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Yes Sir, I have a can of cheese whiz in my fridge,
twenty cheese sticks, blocks of cheddar, shredded
mozza, and other various remnants of cheese.
But I didn’t touch the cream cheese!!!!
Moe, Larry, CHEESE!
Cocaine Addict (Bob Saget): Cheese is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that’s an addiction. You ever suck some dick for cheese?