Can't Give Up Cheese? | Neal Barnard, MD

Ready to go vegan but you just can't give up cheese? Dr. Neal Barnard talks about why cheese can be so addictive and tips for finally ditching the dairy! Learn more about the health risks of dairy products: www.pcrm.org/g....
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[@ItsmeCote]

This man is such an inspiration. He's near 70 and looks amazing and healthy.

[@mely260]

He's over 70?! Wowwee I did not know his age

[@caroleneuok5890]

Who is he?

[@DK-qj7cr]

@@caroleneuok5890 his name is in the title

[@caroleneuok5890]

@@DK-qj7cr doh!

[@rkuehhas]

Why is his face so thin with his chin. It looks so strange

[@Lantanana]

I was forced to give up cheese due to health issues, and it really helped me to buy a good quality 'fake' cheese made from plant products. For a month or so, I ate fake cheese every day, then I gave that up easily. I now eat a pizza with no cheese and no meat, and it still tastes like pizza to me. Yes, it is possible to get past the cheese barrier!

[@Jane-no3id]

I was able to give up cheese, if I can do it, you can too! Three & a half years ago and I am cured of the desire to commit suicide by eating garbage... I will be 80 years next month & PREFER the vegan life ...1) my health 2) the planet & 3) my love for ALL animals! 💖

[@susanaduarteraposo]

Congratulations!!!! I’m really proud of you! i did it 4 years ago, I’m 45 years old now! i hope I arrive to 80 like you!

[@carinarose9535]

I did it easily when I moved to Thailand. Since it’s not there, I’m not tempted. And now when I look at cheese, I no longer get tempted. The smell is such a turn off for me now

[@TheBlackDevil7]

vegan is gay

[@lukeuseforce]

HOW did you do it? I've been mostly plant based for the last 15 years, but have been stuck on cheese. I sooo want to be able to say no, but its a comfort food. I've tried a handful of vegan cheeses and they taste like garbage. Do you have any advice? Did you have a transition food for your cheese craving?

[@jaafarawadallah514]

I gave up dairy since December 2020

[@SebastianMarelli]

awesome! Keep going! I stopped 3.5 years ago

[@Protectedbikelanes]

Try miyokos, so delicious and vegan!

[@Jen-nv9ch]

Giving up cheese was the hardest part, because I was never a big meat eater. This is my first vegan pregnancy (2nd non-meat), and during every previous pregnancy the only thing I craved was fried mozzarella sticks. I ate a ton of them, and of course gained a ton of weight during pregnancy (40-50 lbs). I was so worried that I was going to go back to eating cheese during this pregnancy, but amazingly I haven't. I think it has helped that I have been vegan for 6 years, and I have found a decent substitute if I want comfort food. There is hope for breaking the cheese addiction.

[@SebastianMarelli]

Sounds great! Wish you all the best! Hope your kid will become a healthy, strong and animal loving human being

[@jbarkerhill92]

Giving up cheese was a big turning point in healthy eating for me. Was vegetarian and had green smoothies for years but still ate a lot of dairy and eggs and those were messing up my health. My inflammation went down a lot from going fully plant based and giving up cheese

[@thinkingoutloud675]

whats wrong with egg

[@christinemarie2264]

I was able to give up cheese and if you asked me a couple of year's ago what my favorite food was I would have answered cheese without a second thought. You can do it.

[@dj-fe4ck]

The exact opposite is true for me. I've always hated it more than anything else

[@RiDankulous]

You love cheese but it doesn't love you back :( Little known fact, Joan Jett's song called "I Hate Myself for Loving You" is really written about cheese.

[@Lisa_0519]

Thank goodness our Plant-based journey of melting away cheese was boosted in the fact we did not own a fridge! Easy, no fridge, no cheese :) Thanks Dr Neal!

[@vietnamd0820]

Once I learned pus is in dairy, giving up cheese was very easy.

[@caroleneuok5890]

I love to make cheese sauce with cauliflower, carrots, nutritional yeast, onion powder, garlic powder and lemon juice. I use it on all of the foods that I would eat cheese on, Is that safe?

[@kosoconnor3959]

Would you add nuts to your cheese sauce as well? Like soaked cashews

[@caroleneuok5890]

@@kosoconnor3959 I am allergic to nuts. So no. But the stuff that I make with cauliflower is delicious and cheaper.

[@bryant475]

Definitely, reminds me a bit of Plantiful Kiki's cheese sauce, just search that and you'll find it :)

[@rachaelrvdm634]

Much appreciated Dr. Barnard for this video. Dairy and sugar or fructose caused a bad ear and sinus infection for me. Now every time I feel like cheese I use plant-based cheese. I was simply and blindly addicted to dairy and sugar that I couldn't think straight sometimes. After 6 months of going on a Vegan diet, I am feeling so much healthier and happier because I can have a deeper sleep and waking up feeling refresh.

[@cheryoyster1768]

I love dr. Neal Barnard

[@CJ_102]

You can generally avoid cheese, bread, milk, sugar, alcohol, cigars, ice cream, pizza and so on in your daily life. Easy. Having been vegan and keto and this and that over the decades, I'm unlikely to "give up" anything anymore. I just watch what I eat, exercise, and always pay careful attention to good nutritional information.

[@elsplace896]

I gave it up a week ago .except I do use a little Parmesan cheese..and I've lost 3 pounds. Also portion control.

[@HealthyEmmie]

Thank you for this great video!

[@metroi7622]

Researching how cows are treated will help you give up cheese. You'll lose your appetite for it.

[@Ahopek]

It is seriously horrifying. I knew it would be, so I avoided learning about the dairy industry until well after I was vegan. Then about two years ago I decided I should know about the cruelty so that if it came up in any why-go-vegan discussions, I'd know about it. The abuse and suffering and overt waste of so many cows' lives is heartbreaking beyond words. And now that I'm a mother, every image of an engorged cow, a calf being taken away from its mother, or a cow being prodded, confined to a dark, tiny cell, or being raped by a dude's arm---it's too much to handle. I will never again want a hard working, lonely mother cow's secretions that her body made for her own calf.

[@tylerw1976]

nope i've seen it and still like to crave cheese and custard 😋

[@Ahopek]

@@tylerw1976 really?? That surprises me. Would you ever consider just trying some plant based cheeses and custards to see if you'd want to make even a partial/occasional switch? I can't recommend any as I can't get them where I live, but I know there's quite a variety out there.

[@saladstrongsoprano9625]

Search for the book of Miyoko Schinner. She has vegan recipes for all kinds of cheeses. So if you really do not want to break up with cheese, just go make your own, following her recipes.

[@mariahorta3910]

Miyoko Schinner

When I learned about casomorphine in cheese and gluteomorphine in wheat, that was my push to give them both up two weeks ago. I had some opioid like withdrawal symptoms for a few days and still in the process of healing my gut and body, but I am so thankful for kind doctors like this one who understand the importance of informing about toxins in food that can really make people sick! It helps relieve my hatred of ignorant heartless doctors who can't do #$@% to help their patients get well...

[@MBosEs]

He's probably right but I would have liked Dr. Barnard to to talk about healthy alternatives because that is what I am missing in these type of videos.

[@johnstacey8250]

I think there is a connection between milk and love and going back to being a baby. Milk is the thing I find HARD to give up.

[@johnstacey8250]

Milk in tea and coffee and choc and biscuits not drinking it out of the bottle.

[@fenysnake]

Plus, no fiber, so you can easily overeat

[@rescuerhonda0164]

I had been vegetarian for 28 years when I gave up dairy. My fibromyalgia pain went away within 2 weeks. I had been eating a lot of cheese and dairy products to fill myself up rather than vegetables. I am so glad I gave it up because my life is 100% better now.

[@sergeauclair2397]

Sniff, sniff, but I fell much better and only after day 14.

[@brunobilandzija1823]

really interesting, never heard of this...great! thanks!

[@thatveganmuslim]

Nutritional yeast is crazy how much it has a cheezy taste

[@SenorJuan2023]

not really. Parm cheese flavor isn't the same as cheddar or nacho.

[@m.taylor]

Miso also tastes as funky as cheese.

[@unlisted8042]

After I went dairy free for a couple of months my body can’t handle it anymore. At 33 years old for the first time in my life my stomach is a mess after I eat ANY dairy, and my sinuses start to act up within an hour of eating dairy. Kind of weird how after taking it away for a short time my body will reject it now. So, I just can’t have it anymore.

[@polentusmax6100]

Such low iq conclusion. Your gut bacteria did not have the bacteria to eat chesse after a long time, if you introduce cheese slowly that would not happen. And if you keep eating the issue goes away. Your conclusion is in the same place as people that eat poison and call the side effects "detox".

[@PrincessYonna1]

My nose gets congested a few minutes after drinking milk

[@lucindawinehouse2002]

it will be a year in July since I went Dairy Free and since then I have found a lot of Dairy Free alternatives to Traditional Cows Milk and Animal based Cheeses

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

Cheese is a great source of protein and calcium but is often high in saturated fat and salt. This means eating too much could lead to high cholesterol and high blood pressure, increasing your risk of cardiovascular disease👍

[@verenamartini8695]

Be better at listening...

[@Kristers_K]

The idea of cheese being a great source of protein and calcium is a common misconception, it is not. Dairy products do the opposite, they leech calcium from the body, leading to bone fractures, as evidenced by Indian populations. That is why it's so terrible to cows milk to children, not only because of the damage to bones, but also hormones like estrogen. I used to consume a lot of dairy as a child, and you know what happened? My growth was severely stunted and was phyisically, cognitively impaired. So when i see kids being offered milk in schools because the goverment has set the laws that way, it makes me so sad.

[@broddr]

Cheese is also high in the hormones estrogen and progesterone. These are fat soluble, so the cheese making process concentrates them from milk. And in addition to high saturated fats, milk & the cheese made from it has 4 - 7% trans fats, the most harmful fats for the cardiovascular system. You won’t see that on the nutrition labels because the beef and dairy industries fought hard that those labels only include trans fats _added_ during processing, not in the initial product.

[@leavesofchange]

@@Kristers_K I was gonna say much the same thing, but Hear Hear

[@Kristers_K]

@@leavesofchange I was raised with the same concept of you need to drink milk and eat meat to be strong. Good it did me, screwed up my health, some of symptoms still linger even now in late my 20s. Perhaps i was more sensitive to such products, but 20 years ago you didn't know any better, such foods were the norm.

[@monicavillasenor2345]

When I first went wfpb I was able to find a plant based cheese alternative (which I don’t reach for often anymore) but two weeks in to this new lifestyle, I tried a bite of regular pizza and the cheese literally tasted so SOUR to me and I just thought wow I can’t believe I used to be obsessed with this stuff, and it just truly amazes me how our tastebuds change in just a short amount of time, our bodies really do work for us when given the chance!

[@tylersnead7639]

Cheese has so much saturated fat. When my mom would make homemade Alfredo , she’d put the leftovers in the fridge and all the fat from the butter and heavy whipping cream would solidify and it wouldn’t loosen up until we heated it back up.

[@user-tm2fy6se7g]

I just want to say that my grand grand dad lived close to a 100 yrs he was eating meat pork lard to cook eating cheese eat eggs and he was healthy what can you say about that he didn’t have high blood pressure diabetes just one day got sick and 🥲but he was 99 yrs old

[@CursiveDragon]

I don't get it. I really don't. Maybe because I was never big on cheese to begin with.

[@PrincessYonna1]

I love cheese and milk. 😢😢😢😢

[@garlictyme2472]

Chao tofu cheese is pretty good, still a lot of fat though.

[@nayanmipun6784]

How much saturated fat maximum allowed?

[@dj-fe4ck]

I cannot understand how anyone has a hard time giving up cheese. I never ate cheese or any other dairy for most of my life even as an omnivore. I've always hated dairy but hate cheese more than all other dairy products. I hate cheese so much that going to jail would be easier for me than eating it. Cheese and meat together is even worse. I cannot understand lacto vegetarianism. I would rather eat chicken than eat dairy if I was forced to make a choice.

[@Supreme91007]

You might drop the soap in jail, so just eat cheese

[@pinkiepinkster8395]

I gave up cheese when i went vegan and i have had no luck trying to either buy or make vegan cheeses so i just gave it up altogether.

[@jared8530]

I can't cheese is just too powerfully delicious..

[@lenoresmall2841]

Great book also 😊

[@KYLE-zo4bm]

I loved cheese but was able to easily give it up as soon as i got tired of my stomach and bathroom trouble

[@Itsunclegabby]

Milk grows baby calves into big old cows, then we concentrate it and eat it! How could that possibly aid any HEALTHY weight loss?

[@dianamarie1652]

I have never cared for cheese! I am happy to do without it

[@tinac8706]

Cheese is easy, butter, that is the food I have a hard time breaking up with 😂

[@anniehandpy5581]

I am so surprised to hear from a white person stating cheese is bad and meat is bad. I am Chinese, we don’t make cheese in ChinaI. I just started to try some of the cheese in the Aldi supermarkets. I did Brie. Now I have Gruyère. I suppose try the Gouda or cheddar next time. You make me stop my cheese eating experiments: that bacteria used in cheeses is where it grows in the feet which makes the feet stinky. I read that cheese is bad for the intestines from a Japanese doctor. Cheeses are one of big industry in every developed countries. In his book he complained that a huge number of Japanese’s intestines have gone so bad in their early thirty’s. I don’t know when the Japanese started importing cheeses. If you ask me what do you know about American? I say McDonald’s. If you ask me what do you know about Europeans. I say small cup of coffee with a chunk of cheese in a small plate with a small fork or small spoon sitting under a huge umbrella outside of a street. Your other thing is promoting vegan. I want to see the entire meat industry go bye bye. Is it possible? I understand you that you want people healthier and children healthier. Just recent years the Chinese government posted another edition of a standard way of eating because the Chinese are aging and many illnesses were developed in their diet. I want to say is they did not cut meat, instead they tell you which meats are good for what reasons. For example the chicken wings are healthier than the chicken legs. In fact I just found out American chicken wings are about 3 dollars per pound and the chicken legs are about 1 dollar per pound. Another example of getting vitamin k2 they don’t tell their people to get it from cheese; for elderly people they want them eat animal liver every once a while and etc.. I am not born in here, but I am here long enough to judge that the America had not putted in efforts to educate us how to eat healthier.

[@ritahall2378]

If a steak can be made in a lab why can’t cheese be made as magically I love the taste but I have had a bad breakup with cheese

[@ginger3006]

Okay ypu said to break up with cheese but didn't tell me how

[@janetfuller1900]

You have to do tricks to get away from cheese. First I cut it in half. Then I just filled up on veggies and beans etc BEFORE cheese. By then, I don’t need it! I am about 96% cheese free now.

[@burgosco7024]

My bones hurt when I eat cheese I hate pharmaceutical pain relievers

[@ElsjeMassyn]

Cheese doesnt love you back. Its like pursuing a relationship with someone who doesnt love you back. They might use your body for their pleasure, but they dont care about the emotional consequences it leaves on your psyche. L.O.L.

[@greenleafyman1028]

I can't give up cheese but I also don't want to support animal agriculture. That's why I love vegan cheese.

[@neme7725]

I thought this was gonna be a song for some reason

[@ebonypayne3096]

I eat a lot of cheese because I work at a pizza place. I want to stop eating cheese because I want to lose weight. I read that you could lose around 15 pounds. That’s motivation for me😂.

[@VOLightPortal]

Asians: cheese? What is that? We have tofu.........

[@a_sea_of_serpents]

Morphiceptin? Christ, time to empty out my fridge.

[@luciansatanas5664]

dude animal products are actually way better for you its just we keep giving em all grains when some of em honestly need to be grass fed! hell why can't we feed the chickens the bugs? like what kind of thinking are we in today! freaking liver is a very high source of vitamin a

[@SusanLee-xt9kc]

Omg. What a crock. I’m carnivore. You couldn’t pay me to eat veg and carbs. Cheese on the other hand….you only got that part right.

[@waedjradi]

Barnard's physiological-structure is stuck at 35 years old. Yet, he has been on this blue planet for 67 years. Hmmm, something to ponder on.

[@nynx123456]

I don t want to give up chees 😁

[@Justflyaway7]

READ Genesis chapter 5 !!!!!!! These guys were 800yrs old 930yrs old 807yrs old and 905yrs old , God tells theTRUTH & the truth will set you Free ThankU Jesus Amen 😊👌

[@jaredcardenas813]

Would you consider vegan cheese to be any better? I understand it to be made of nuts.

[@onlyapilgrim]

Byron makes milk! Makes makes me queasy! Cheesey is the milk! That comes from the body!

[@Protectedbikelanes]

Easy, buy miyokos! 💛

[@amandaaussie-at-heart2735]

I am pretty sure cheese / dairy contributed to painful menstrual cycle during my teen years, acne + hemorrhoids. dairy is not good & calcium is too acidic & not well absorbed.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

I want to try fasting.... I'm too fat. 😭

[@polentusmax6100]

Following this diet, lol, impossible

[@jeromeroth2204]

Not eating causes the body to feel threatened and retain fat. Keep metabolism going by eating a little something every 3 hours - vegan, of course. Also, exercise - walk/jog routine loses lots of inches.

[@polentusmax6100]

@@jeromeroth2204 how the hell the body retain ft if you dont eat??? And eat every 3 hours? Are you trying to get these people on diabetes?

[@emilsimanian2275]

it is shown cheddar cheese always in pictures which is almost lot of additives inside and it is almost kind of made of cheese products not exactly cheese, I milk my cow which eats grass, I make the cheese at home myself, the normal white one without additives and I do not add salt, very small, that is very very different than the so called "cheese" defined in the western world, 99% of cheese in western world market is processed, my cheese made at home is not processed, it is astronomical difference between what I make and what is in the market, so basically we have to understand first of all what is cheese!!!!. it is common knowledge that cheese has so much fat and salt and additives and preservatives because I can show as per products in the western groceries they say it is cheese but it is not cheese at all, it feels like rubber, western world does not have a clue what is cheese in eastern world. The west market just wants to sell rubber to people, that is not called cheese the way I understand. So first we define what is cheese, then we think it is good or bad, the definition of cheese in western world is 99% wrong. When they say cheese burger, it is actually ""highly processed cheese like substance" burger"., just because western world define cheese as what they understand or want to make people understand, that does not mean what is the reality, or look at the ingredients on a cheddar cheese packet in the grocery how many ingredients are there just to make this cheese survive and look good. One of the reasons people become vegan because everything except grains, fruits and vegetables in western world is 99% processed and is not natural food, even the fruits and vegetables in western world tastes like paper due to manipulation, preservation and additives. In western world everything is GMO. When I travel and eat different fruits and vegetables in the different parts of the world, the tastes are very very different and sometimes they are not the same at all for same fruit product. For example I just fly to middle east from North America only to eat peach and apricot and fly back.

[@1922mistyblue]

Cheese is the hardest thing to give up.

[@dj-fe4ck]

I cannot understand that. I never ate cheese or any other dairy for most of my life even as an omnivore. I hate cheese so much that going to jail would be easier for me.

[@1922mistyblue]

@@dj-fe4ck that’s excellent

[@barb4645]

Cheese is a highly nutritious food in moderation

[@nk0723]

He looks like he needs some cheese

[@mikeskylark1594]

Great commercial :)

[@wendycarter5718]

Balderhockey !!!!!!!!

[@christinebadostain6887]

Not struggling with weight or health and I eat cheese once a week in a sandwich. Honestly, if I kick the bucket a little early because I eat cheese occasionally, I am OK with that.

[@SebastianMarelli]

Don't care about the animals?

[@christinebadostain6887]

@@SebastianMarelli Yes, I DO care about animals---thanks for your concern.

[@SebastianMarelli]

@@christinebadostain6887 why the cheese then? If it's just once a week why not stop completely for the animals?

[@christinebadostain6887]

@@SebastianMarelli I don't have an ethical problem with cheese or yogurt per se AND I am far from perfect. I continue to strive to be more conscious and make better choices. I like to have a sandwich filled with veggies and a little cheese once a week OK?

[@SebastianMarelli]

@@christinebadostain6887 don't ask me. Ask the raped cow and her dragged away baby. Or take 5 min and whatch the video "Dairy is scary" on KZbin

[@ProudJewishQueen1979]

Being vegan and staying thin is WAY harder than it is when you can have animal protein. Let's be honest. Vegan is maybe healthier but it's much harder to maintain. Clearly you have never had weight problems or you would know that carbs are the enemy, not cheese.

[@metroi7622]

I feel sorry for the poor cows 🐄.

[@ProudJewishQueen1979]

@@metroi7622 Me too, I don't eat cows.

[@dj-fe4ck]

@@ProudJewishQueen1979 That's completely false. I eat anywhere from 400-800 grams of carbs a day and eat 70-85% of my caloric intake from carbs and I am 5'8" and 120 pounds/54kg and I am not even very active now. Even before I was vegan, my diet was just as high carb and lower fat and I've never weighed over 130. Carbs with lots of animal fat or vegetable oils can make you fat, not carbs alone. You can also eat a very high fat low carb vegan diet if you want. Are you aware of that?

[@polentusmax6100]

You should try more often grass raised beef, fat and protein dont spike your insulin as with your lean protein plus carb diet (the same kind of diet used by bodybuilder to bulk weight). Grass fed animal have less omega 6 and more omega 3, that reduce inflamation. Eating carbs make you retain water, =weight, make your liver bigger and fatter, so you have a belly protuberance, the amount of shit inside you from all those carbs make you fat too in the belly, meat and fat are much more dense. The sugar that comes from carbs get coupled to your protein, in process called glycation (i dont remember very well) so your tissues are weaker and damaged. The lack of colesterol make the problem worst, since colesterol helps the celular walls. So you age faster, have dry skin, get fatter, and get muscle damage, tahts when you looks start to degrade. Veganism is not good for enviroment too, vegan cultures need a lot of pesticides, not wild life can coexist with agriculture, while grass for cows can hold a lot of animals, and are not destroyed every year as agriculture. Its hard to someone to discard meat, while is common to discard vegetables and fruits because they go bad.

[@dj-fe4ck]

Carbs make you fat. That's why I'm only 54 kg and 5'8" with a BMI of 18 eating 400-800 grams of carbs a day. That is complete nonsense. FAT makes you fat

[@amirmirza811]

Doesn't matter what you stop and what you eat... you die one day .😉

[@davidplyler8173]

That’s the thinnest neck I’ve ever seen on a man.

[@guest-zn8zs]

What kind of sick doctor are you!?