Is Cheddar Good for Brain Health?
I was lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, spending a year between college and medical school working as a singing waiter in a restaurant called the Hollywood Savoy in the 2nd arrondissement. It’s still open, but it looks like the waiters don’t sing anymore. Tant pis.
In any case, living on a French waiter’s salary back then wasn’t easy. There were no tips. So I subsisted, as I imagined Hemingway did in his Moveable Feast days, on a diet composed almost entirely of wine, baguettes, and goat cheese.
This might not have been the best for my GI health, but according to a new study at least, all that cheese intake might serve to protect my brain in the long term. That’s right. This week, nutritional epidemiology rears its delicious head again as we discuss whether high-fat-cheese-eating prevents dementia.
Excerpted from Medscape
