Say Cheese!
Jan 25th, 2007 at 2:31 pm by Maya
I came across this tidbit today that eating cheese prevents cavities. Does this mean that in a pinch you can brush your teeth with cheese?
I’ve had several people over the years (including my doctor) suggest that I lay off the dairy for my skin and other various (but minor) reasons. I always tell them the same thing: “they’ll pry the cheese from my cold dead hands.”
I’m most of the way there - I use rice milk instead of cow’s milk, and Earth Balance instead of butter. But cheese is more of a religion to me than a food, and I just haven’t found a good enough reason to let it go.
And if you look hard enough, you can find justification for anything!
I’m a cheese fanatic too. And there’s so many options beyond the traditional grocery choices.
I don’t eat yellow food, except when I do, but mostly I don’t. Cheese is no exception. Bleh.
Oh my. Cheese. Such a splendid thing. Not good for you though. That business about an enzyme in cheese that fights tooth decay may be true, but it has too many harmful things to it. Still, a nice stilton with a glass of port? Yum. Brie en crute slathered with fig preserves? Yee-ha! Manchego crumbled over salad greens with walnuts and a tomato vinegarette? That’s my opening course for dinner tonight (found an amazing tomato vinegar at a place called Le Monde d’Truffe or something like that, my French is awful and so is my memory, in St Remy last May).
Oh, you don’t want to get me started on the subject of cheese.
Earth Balance is amazing. What flavor! The Whole Foods near me just started carrying the large tub. Saves having to buy it so often.
oh who cares? cheese is a natural food and its loaded with calcium and vitamin D. its good for you !!
Thanks, DBK, for that rousing bit of cheese erotica. Now I’ve got to stop on the way home to pick up something to quell my cheese fantasies.
Cheese may indeed be bad for you, but like I said: cold. dead. hands.
I don’t smoke, don’t do drugs, rarely drink, rarely eat meat. I figure I’ve earned a bad habit or two. Between cheese and dark chocolate, I’m quite content.
http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp?id=37538
You’d like my doctor. He WANTS me to eat cheese!
I just had a similar discussion with my sister whose nutritionist is trying to get her to quit all kinds of things she loves- including cheese. So I’ll raise the same question here:
What’s the point in living?
Look- if you want to live to be 140 and that’s more important to you than quality of life- then put down the cheese, the chocolate, the cabernet, and the philly cheesesteak.
But I guarentee this: no one reading this blog today is going to live forever. Now- you might tack a few years on by not eating cheese or drinking wine or (best combo ever imho) a pepperoni pizza with a decent microbrew- but would it really be worth it?
Answers vary. But my feeling on the subject is to make an informed decision that you’re happy with.
I’m not going to live forever. And I’m not even going to try.
Less meat, more cheese. That’s the way.
somebody gimmee a cheeseburger…