Here's a question for you.

What's the best way to live a longer, healthier life?

Diet, exercise, both eating healthy while doing jumping jacks?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

And I'm here to help you answer that question.

We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.

The vast majority of premature death and disability is preventable with a healthy and

off diet and lifestyle.

And I'm here to bring you the latest peer reviewed research to give you the tools to

put it into practice.

Today we ponder the merits of cheese.

Americans are eating a record amount of cheese, 10 billion pounds of it a year.

That's a lot of nachos.

So what do studies tell us about the nutritional benefits or otherwise of all that cheese?

In a series of videos I did about saturated fat.

I talked about a major campaign launched by the global dairy industry to neutralize the

negative image of milk fat among regulators and health professionals as related to heart

disease.

That campaign continues to this day with the publication of a meta-analysis demonstrating

neutral, meaning non-harmful associations between dairy products and cardiovascular disease

and death.

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