{"id":3834,"date":"2025-12-19T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/high-fat-cheeses-could-slash-risk-of-dementia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:03:26","slug":"high-fat-cheeses-could-slash-risk-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/high-fat-cheeses-could-slash-risk-of-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"High-fat cheeses could slash risk of dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-12-19 15:03:24<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>High-fat cheeses  may help protect the brain against dementia.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to a long-running study from Sweden, researchers found that people who ate around two slices of full-fat cheese a day were 13 per cent less likely to develop dementia than those who ate very little. <BR><br \/>\nThe effect was even stronger for vascular dementia &#8211; the second most common form of the degenerative condition, which causes a decline in thinking, memory, and reasoning skills &#8211; where the risk was cut by 29 per cent.<BR><br \/>\nThe findings come from an analysis of medical and dietary records from 27,670 adults tracked over 25 years by scientists at Lund University. <BR><br \/>\nParticipants\u2019 eating habits were compared with later dementia diagnoses to identify long-term trends.<BR><br \/>\nLead researcher Dr Emily Sonestedt said the results challenge long-held assumptions about fat and brain health. <BR><br \/>\nShe added: &#8220;The debate over high-fat versus low-fat diets has sometimes categorised cheese as an unhealthy food.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our study found some high-fat dairy products may lower the risk of dementia, challenging assumptions about fat and brain health.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nCheese was not the only dairy product linked to protection. The team also found that people who consumed around one and a half tablespoons of cream a day were 16 per cent less likely to develop dementia than those who avoided it entirely.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the benefits were not seen across all dairy products. Low-fat alternatives and other dairy foods showed no clear protective effect.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Sonestedt added: &#8220;When it comes to brain health, not all dairy is equal.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-12-19 15:03:24 High-fat cheeses may help protect the brain against dementia. According to a long-running study from Sweden, researchers found that people who ate around two slices of full-fat cheese&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}