We didn’t really need an excuse to eat more cheese, but scientists have just given us a reason to feel better about doing it.
Instead of making us fatter, it looks like cheese could actually be preventing us from gaining weight.
And here we were thinking we couldn’t love cheese more than we already did.
The researchers wanted to find out why the French can eat all the cheese and still stay trim, they called it ‘the French paradox puzzle.’
To do this, they compared the diets of three groups: one high in milk, another high in cheese and the other on a controlled diet.
Analysing urine and feces samples (lovely), they found that… Read the full story