Is Cheese Really Bad for You?

[@TheVeganTwist]

I find it remarkable that these industries with huge conflicts of interest are allowed to publish these studies! Thanks so much for cutting through the noise, these videos are invaluable.

[@Limemill]

Thing is, in real life the absolute majority of studies - any kind of studies - are funded by those who want them published because they believe the outcome would be favourable to their cause / business. This is not a bad thing per se as long as the studies are accurate. No one but the primary benefactors would have the money and willingness to conduct all that research anyway. Key is honesty, though. For example, I have come across studies funded by protein powder manufacturers that showed that supplementation with protein powders didn’t do jack shit for muscle growth. And they still published those

[@TheVeganTwist]

@@Limemill Agree with what you say - unfortunately a lot of these studies are manipulated in such a way as to produce a favourable outcome for those who benefit the most financially. I think integrity is key but appears to be rare, so I find it pretty remarkable that the protein powder studies were published!

[@Bloxeh]

Also, whenever they don't like the outcome, they just don't publish the study and keep tweaking the parameters until they manufacture one that somehow fits the agenda. There would have to be some way to force them to publish all studies, not just those with favorable results.

[@lloydchristmas4547]

Exactly. What gets me the most is government subsidies and other misuse if tax dollars.

[@lloydchristmas4547]

@@Bloxeh Good points.

[@Simnettnutrition]

What a twisted world we live in. Thanks for helping to expose these tactics! 👊

[@Pumpped]

stop eating nutritional yeast, its not healthy. Contains naturally occuring MSG.

[@morganmitchell4017]

@@Pumpped What's wrong with MSG?

[@Pumpped]

@@morganmitchell4017 it kills brain cells

[@morganmitchell4017]

@@Pumpped I didn't know that. Do you have a citation?

[@CarnevalOne]

Plant food manufacturers use these same tactics. You pretending like it's only "them" helps the world remain "twisted". Spin on, charlatan....you work for a supplement company, promoting harmful supplements. Pot calling the kettle black.

[@YoutubeUser-nd8qv]

Its funny how these keto etc. people say that everything has changed, new sciense and all that. And how it was all a conspiracy by the sugar industry. Then they post the new studies, funded by dairy & egg industries. Its hilarious and sad at the same time.

[@James-zr1lu]

When they deploy "old tho". Old but valid. New but misleading.

[@AmeliaAndJP]

The claim that the sugar industry blamed saturated fat is also wrong. The researchers back in the 60s were funded by the dairy industry and they expected to find that sugar was the cause of heart disease. When they actually found saturated fat was the cause, the dairy industry yanked their funding and the sugar industry picked up the bill because the research exonerated their products, at least as the primary cause of heart disease. But the high fat crowd doesn’t believe the real version of history. They’ve rewritten history as powerful people often do.

[@GamesonQ]

People who practice keto are just bunch of food addicts.

[@YoutubeUser-nd8qv]

@@GamesonQ That might be true, that the only way they can limit intake is by creating these weird rules. As it really makes no sense overall at all. None of them can actually explain why they would limit foods as beans & potatoes. They always seem to think that all carbohydrates are cakes.

[@effigy8620]

Give the keto worshippers some time and see how they feel. Hopefully they will be able able to salvage their livers.

[@jayz12366]

I work at SubWay for heaven sake 95% of people have melted cheese on their sandwich it makes me sad.

[@nuechternheit]

Shouldn't you be sad for every sandwich you make independet of cheese?

[@AConnorDN38416]

well, it is kind of the default, unfortunately. It always struck me as weird that one of Subway's big marketing strategies was to talk about how healthy and low fat their sandwiches are, but you specifically have to say no cheese (at least that's been the case at every one I've been to)

[@justice8473]

I get a habanero veggie wrap with guacamole and all the vegetables

[@nuechternheit]

@@justice8473 Do they have vegan options as well?

[@TheCrusaderRabbits]

Jared is sad too.

[@Yensu.Gaming]

This video did nothing to prove whether or not cheese is bad for you, just that big companies will do studies trying to promote their products.

[@Man_in_a_Gucci_Suit]

Thank you For pointing it out 50% of the people in comments too dumb to differentiate proof with paid studies

[@etyety560]

Hello

[@hephekey]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Thanks you for this

[@MGmirkin]

@@TubeWatcher Doctors generally aren't trained nutritionists and know almost nothing about lifestyle [diet] medicine. I've seen alleged doctors hawking all kinds of nonsense about how "fats are good for you," "eat more cheese and other fatty bullshit." They may know how to set bones and administer IV's, but they often don't seem to know their butts from a hole in he ground on nutrition's role in disease promotion or prevention.

[@aftmsg]

Exactly

[@kathyfausett9301]

The lengths to which people will go to protect their profit streams is ridiculously never-ending. The amount of garbage that the public will believe, particularly when it saves them from doing anything different----likewise.

[@anarkitype4017]

Well im not surprised at all, but hell is it frightening!

[@b4804514]

Its all directed at a group that is less knowledgeable and less likely to think eating cheese is bad for you or question anything they eat

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

I already hate cheese/love it but it's pricey, waxy crap in the end. But the flavours :) I wonder if happiness outweighs nutrition ? wink-wink

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Yes @Nebula Loper but the faster you travel, the less time you experience so it may balance out in the end ;+}

[@marcusstarr2000]

FAKE NEWS

[@ms3er396]

@@marcusstarr2000 given he cites and shows everything I'm not sure how you can say it's fake.

[@ima7333]

Wow, very well said Dr. G. I removed all dairy products from my diet after i watched your video about casein promoting cancer growth having had tongue cancer. Right away i noticed huge difference in my sleep pattern, menstruation pattern & the way my overall body feel. It feels great to listen to my body and when i got affirmation from experts like you, make me realize how much i should just do that. I never did like the taste of cow’s milk ever since birth (according to my mom) and to top it off i never could stomach cow’s milk, goat’s milk or any other mammal’s milk but my mom’s (when i was baby that is). Later on i bought into the propaganda of how we need milk for its calcium and stuff. So thank you for all the work that you do.

[@lloydchristmas4547]

Great work. I dropped dairy in 2010. I was lactose intolerant anyway and dramatically reduced my inflammation, especially in my nasal cavity and feet.

[@Julottt]

Yeah dairy especially concentrated one like aged cheese is the worst food ever when you have any respiratory tract problems especially sinus ones, Ima sleep pattern and menstruation got much better because she removed the extra natural hormonal assault from dairy and cheese.

[@parnianx]

Wonderful news! Well done for making such a dramatic decision! I hope you are recovering well and glad things are working out for you without the "calcium" now ;)

[@BigGirthyRod]

I cut out dairy and felt better than ever. I was able to wake up in the morning, go to sleep on time, and my terrible acne was clearing up quickly, I also felt very happy and motivated and lost fat.

[@somefuckertookmynickname]

It just sounds like you were lactose intolerant?

[@hhancp]

This is frustrating. Seen a similar kind of manipulated study that says people who drink more milk has lesser chance of diabetes. Done by an organisation who"s job is to promote dairy.

[@lloydchristmas4547]

Lol. Interesting because dairy is linked to diabetes, autism, SIDS, acne, cancer, etc.

[@Pumpped]

all studies are manipulated to fulfill the agendas of those funding the research.

[@m9frank]

Thanks very much for this, I've seen some of the cheese propaganda.

[@v-sig2389]

@Sono2 it's not like they were pushing dairy at school and in ads targeting children ... oh wait ...

[@Pumpped]

@@v-sig2389 wow.. totally forgot about "milk day"

[@RobertWadlow292]

Cheese is actually the healthiest form of dairy, second to butter. An aged cheese will be very low in lactose and well tolerated by those with lactose intolerance.

[@m9frank]

@@RobertWadlow292 lactose intolerance isn't the issue. Is the healthiest form of artery clogging fat something we want to eat?

[@Pumpped]

@@RobertWadlow292 lol it goes far beyond lactose intolerance. First of all cheese is a combination of fat and sugar, the recipe for diabetes and blood sugar issues. Second, cheese creates mucous production causing your lymphatic system to become sluggish and therefore hindering immune responses. Third, it feeds bacteria and viruses that are behind all kinds of symptoms from acne to psoarsis to all "autoimmune' diseases. I could go on.

[@TheCrusaderRabbits]

This video didn't answer its own title.

[@eldiariodelgeek4220]

If you watch enough of his videos it's easy to pick up that saturated fat is not good for you.

[@earthpet]

@@eldiariodelgeek4220 The reason saturated fat is not considered an "essential" fatty acid is because it is made by the human body. If saturated fat is bad then we are all killing ourselves.

[@earthpet]

@Alexandre Gareau Do you have some sort of intelligent explanation or is your vocabulary limited to that one word?

[@earthpet]

@Alexandre Gareau Your body has no means of determining if saturated fat came from de novo lipogenesis or from a dietary source. You may be correct that I am an idiot or a waste of time, but your petty superiority is bit cringey. I know you can't help it, but I feel an obligation to respond to your comments like I would for a capable person.

[@ezrabay4393]

@@earthpet "Testosterone is made by the body, therefore blasting roids must be harmless."

[@williamw.2610]

"Is cheese bad for you?", Conclusion; taxes should not be spent on cheese and candy.

[@tylerp657]

He has done a few videos on dairy already. Is cheese really bad for you? He goes across recent studies that say its healthy, only to find those studies have conflicting interests. Conclusion, its still bad for you.

[@selfmadetray5836]

@@tylerp657 what they say is eating low fat cheese in small amounts which literally no one does

[@jjjjjks]

The title is misleading. The video already comes with the premise that cheese is bad and focuses on how studies are manipulated for the benefit of the dairy/fast food industry.

[@roryocallaghan2201]

@Christina Reynolds Neither is Cow's milk

[@mylesgray3470]

I had acne for 20 years until I gave up dairy 100%. My joint pain also went away. My conclusion is dairy is very unhealthy to me and I will avoid it the rest of my life.

[@issavibez394]

It's everywhere in alot of foods

[@issavibez394]

Dairy is also inflammatory

[@ninjamink3700]

So is cheese bad for you then?! Why set a title and never answer it

[@TheAllanBrownlie]

You say cheese consumption in Europe being associated with positive health outcomes should be ignored because cheese eaters in Europe also are from a higher socio-econpmic group and eat more fruits and vegetables. But you could make the exact opposite argument for ignoring negative health outcomes for cheese consumers in other Western countries. Because cheese consumers in those countries are less likely to eat fruits and vegetables and less likely to exercise.

[@thoughtjournal4947]

That's why population studies aren't the best way to determine which foods are good for you or not, unless the entire society eats nearly the same diet, even still.

[@Leo-io7xi]

In light of the current scientific knowledge (not just meta-analysis, in many cases identifying precise metabolic processes) about diet and lifestyle's impact on health, a parsimonious interpretation of the study covered by the video (or the fictional broccoli lobby funded inverse argument you posit) is the same: a plant based diet is the healthiest alternative. That's not even the main point of the video, as is exposing and dissecting the marketing tactics used by the dairy industry.

[@earthpet]

@@Leo-io7xi The point of the video was to resolve the question "Is Cheese Really Bad For You?" The video uses deception to simply expose deception. It's like a meta-mouse trap.

[@Leo-io7xi]

@@earthpet Not unless the title was something like "The purpose of this video is to resolve the question 'Is cheese really bad for you?' ". Otherwise a title is just...a title.

[@earthpet]

@@Leo-io7xi You are correct. My point assumes intelligence is involved. Intelligence is not needed for an arbitrary title. In this case the title is just arbitrary and loosely associated to the subject.

[@DanDoesGame]

The way I see it and The way I am going to live my life is........ Anything is healthy in Moderation, as long as you dont sit on your lazy a** all day doing nothing & Actually get up and exercise, go for a walk, go to the gym, etc. For 45 Minutes to an Hour each day..... I aint depriving myself of anything to make my life miserable just to live a few weeks longer

[@enasksenos]

Dairy Dairy Dairy! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

[@polinaa5896]

Lol it made my day too

[@justice8473]

Dairy dairy dairy dairy dairy......

[@v-sig2389]

@TheSwoleBroscientist the denial is strong here xD

[@Suna32]

@TheSwoleBroscientist Studies need to have multi-variable adjustement in order to provide significant results. Variable such as socio-economic status as said in this video. If you believe that saturated fat, which is vastly found in cheese has no direct relation with cardiovascular diseases, please provide evidence.

[@justinofboulder]

Thanks for this video! After reading your book 17 months ago and deciding to stop eating refined sugars, wheat and dairy products, so many of my issues (pain and inflammation) have diminished. While I was never much of a milk consumer, I definitely ate a lot of cheese (and it was a little hard to let it go). If I have a bit of cheese now, almost immediately I will become pretty congested in my sinuses....

[@aliarsenal6136]

If you have acne/pimple, avoid dairy products and sweets.

[@johzuke1]

An important video!

[@veg]

Cheese = Dairy. Dairy = Poison!

[@positivekarolina1260]

Shhh don't say that out loud!

[@veehope2702]

In comparison to what? Does 1 cigarette = 1 week of cheese eating?

[@Hans-tr6dx]

milch ist gift

[@veg]

300 cigarettes = 1 week of cheese eating

[@veg]

Fleisch ist Gift

[@amyg5916]

I’m from Ireland, studying nutrition and the National Dairy Council is corrupting everything here too as it’s one of our biggest money makers. But are there studies- I mean good RCTs showing a direct association of cheese and disease risk? I am tired of fighting the case without hard evidence. Someone please direct me

[@avartarjp]

Cheese is not an expensive product in western Europe - everyone is loving and eating cheese and meat. Cheese is so cheap in most stores.

[@A_A828]

Yeah this was a little weird. In the Netherlands cheese is quite far from a luxury product. I'd argue a sandwich with white bread, margarine and cheese is one of the most working-class lunches I can think of.

[@elizabethkelley5260]

@@A_A828 Yes,it's common,but is it healthy over the long run? Maybe if they take the fat out,but then it wouldn't be cheese,would it?

[@veehope2702]

Yeah that was nonsense, I'm not exactly rolling in it and I have 5 different cheeses to choose from in my fridge. I live in Spain.

[@anlumo1]

I'm a Lactose intolerant living in Western Europe, and I always have to search for palatable food, because there's cheese or other milk products in everything. Usually there's one or two dishes at a restaurant I can eat.

[@lloydchristmas4547]

@@anlumo1 you're not missing out.

[@flabio7074]

What do vegans lack? Calcium, B12, iodine, leucine. What does dairy have lots of? Calcium, B12, iodine, leucine. If you don’t want to take supplements, dairy isn’t a bad choice. Just pick a nonfat option if you can.

[@adamnash1873]

So your video didn't say anything about whether cheese is healthy...

[@jackanddan]

Awesome, it’s honestly amazing how healthy and how good some of the vegan dairy product are these days, not that I really need a replacement but it’s still amazing. Even if I weren’t vegan I would probably eat them because they taste so good and are so much healthier. They are everywhere now too and the same price as their dairy counterparts...It’s so easy...Like why not...

[@sidilicious11]

Herman yeah, I think Daiya cheeses are quite good tasting, though I rarely eat them anymore since they aren’t all that healthy and add extra unneeded calories and fat.

[@jackanddan]

Sidilicious ....yeah they are okay but the Promise Your Heart line is just awesome. We use it for pizza and a few other homemade favs. They actually make a ranch with canola and flax oil that is pretty healthy and stupid good. Fantastic to dunk broccoli in for the kids. There is just so much out there now a wish people would try that is healthy and vegan and same price that they would like if they tried. All I can do is try to suggest and encourage. Take care.

[@9kat53]

@@jackanddan Canola oil is not healthy, flax oil might be okay in small amounts. There is a video either on here or perhaps Dr. MacDougall's site with studies showing that vegetable oils, even extra virgin olive oil, promoted adverse cardiovascular outcomes more than did saturated fat. There are some vegan dressings and dips made without canola or olive, etc, oils, mostly homemade. I have been searching for store-bought oil, sugar, sugar substitute free - the search continues, so far.

[@vvdv3444]

So you did not answer the question in the Title.. You just showed the studies were associated with the industry... So what is the answer?

[@earthpet]

Thank you. So what did they put to the test? What was the result? The title is unanswered in this video.

[@A_A828]

He showed that this type of research is incredibly flawed, as it purposefully does not control for confounding factors... The reason people who eat cheese have a lower risk of heart disease is because cheese functions as a marker for higher socio-economic status, which is also associated with a higher fruit and vegetable intake and better healthcare and such. (i.e. The health of 'cheese eaters' is better despite the cheese, not because of it.) Proper research would control for these variables, or even better yet, would consists of double-blind, placebo-controlled experiments. (Which do exist, and which do consistently show the harmfulness of animal products, including dairy.) If you watch his other videos there's plenty of actual experimental data to show that cheese is bad for you. Learn how to interpret and understand research, please. It's crucial in this day and age.

[@fedvvvv]

He's urging people to think for themselves.

[@earthpet]

@@fedvvvv No, the purpose of these videos is not to get people to "think for themselves". The purpose is to present evidence of a healthy diet. What you do with the evidence is up to you.

[@vvdv3444]

@@A_A828 You said "The reason people who eat cheese have a lower risk of heart disease is because cheese functions as a marker for higher socio-economic status, which is also associated with a higher fruit and vegetable intake and better healthcare and such. (i.e. The health of 'cheese eaters' is better despite the cheese, not because of it.)" Sorry but the data here does not prove this. There is only an association, it is just guess work to say the cheese is not helping in some way. These studies do not prove that it was not the cheese that played a part... Then you tell me how to interpret and understand research....

[@DonQuiKong]

Sorry, but this title is just clickbate. The topic of the video is 'why you shouldn't trust this meta analysis that concludes that cheese is good for you'. This concludes no information whether cheese is bad for you or not. You might not be wasting public funds for this, but you're still misleading people, which is exactly what you're (rightly) accusing the people behind the mentioned study of.

[@DonQuiKong]

@Markus Brorson yes, it isn't wrong, but it is misleading, because it has nothing to do with the content of the video. the question doesn't get answered. When you title a video in a way just to garner the attention of people that has nothing to do with the content, it *is* clickbait. 'I wonder how hard it is for people to understand this?'

[@DonQuiKong]

@Markus Brorson the links are not the matter here, the videotitle should describe the contents of the video. the video raising questions about the conclusios that cheese is good for you. what you could conclude of this is that cheese is not 'good for you'. but that doesn't contain any info whatsoever if cheese is bad for you, it could simply be neutral. so by titling the video 'is cheese really bad for you?' its priming the viewers to commit to that logical fallacy, it is manipulating its viewers to skip over the option that cheese could be neutral, immediately jumping to 'cheese is bad'

[@franciscogarcia3961]

Doctor Greger I cannot stress enough HOW THANKFUL I AM OF YOUR WORK! I try to educate my family and your studies give me the ammunition I need to fight OUR collective ignorance.

[@surfthejungle]

I had no idea this was happening thank you so much for speaking out against this. It's amazing what goes on right underneath our nose

[@siegfriedverheijke]

I am a big fan, but this title made me think that the video would be about something else. Still, you have enough videos to prove the point that cheese is bad for you, so not a big issue.

[@theironstove]

If you think about it, the title is designed to reach as many people as possible - especially people who aren't yet vegan or who don't want to believe cheese is bad for you.. Get them to watch so they expect to quibble the biological details - and instead simply show that every study in support of cheese is very, very biased. Great message.. Doing it this way is actually very clever.

[@theironstove]

@@newyorkguy158 Of course, not "every study in every area", but in this context - when so many are shown to be bad, or very much in conflict with far better, "independent" studies that don't have the results that are in the interests of an industry are suppressed or ignored, and you see this happen over several decades.. it certainly doesn't automatically make industry supported studies good.

[@theironstove]

@@newyorkguy158 You can eat cheese as much as you want.

[@theironstove]

@@newyorkguy158 ..sigh.. There's so. much. evidence now showing that consuming dairy is not healthy, if not dangerous. Yet you are asking for studies showing that cheese is bad for human beings. Why did you stop consuming milk when you were a baby? Because your mother stopped producing milk because there comes a time when we do not need it any more, just as cows stop producing milk when their calk reaches a certain age - so why on earth would humans go on to weirdly control vast populations of cows, keeping them pregnant, it's weird and obscene on such a vast scale, but people think it's so normal, to the point where they become weirdly defensive about it. Dairy causes a lot of the diseases so many people believe to be some kind of totally random lottery.. Yet there you are, asking about cheese studies. You are the ridiculous cherry picker looking desperately for a leg to stand on. So.. eat as much cheese as you want. I am happy for you to reap the rewards of your wilful ignorance and defensiveness of insane, cruel, ugly industries. Eat cheese and feel good about yourself, look down on me, everyone else. Eat as much as you can, please.

[@theironstove]

@@newyorkguy158 Unfortunately, not all Harvard studies are beyond corruption - whether you want to believe that or not. A friend of mine was a professor there, and finds that the school "motto" - "Veritas" - is actually quite ironic. There's a lot of liasing and commissioning by corporate industry and the military etc. It's one of the reasons why he got out of there.. that and the quite greedy and self-serving back-stabbing culture. You are of course free to decide that I'm just some sad person making things up. I felt the way I did about what you said - because (having been vegan for almost 20 years now) I have experienced almost exclusively the same-old thin attitudes, insults and totally uninformed ridicule, in-person, individuals on youtube, not to mention mass media representation verging on propaganda - who are very far from respectful, not to mention open-minded. Take true context into account and the reaction you have judged above as disrespectful of "beliefs" is more accurately boredom and irritation of projection, for one thing. I am not the stereotypical angry evangelical vegan preaching wherever I go - if it comes up in conversation I have to deal with people making plenty of basic assumptions about me - and I know there's nothing I can say to get around the labels in their minds, so I usually stay quiet. Sometimes I will get annoyed and say the above - then I look like the stereotype - it's cause and effect. Anyway, milk has a lot of calcium in it, but it does humans no good.. K2 might be great for reversing heart disease but.. but.. dairy at the very least contributes to heart disease.

[@dru1]

So rich people can eat cheese, candy and they won't be unhealthy? Why would being rich Prevent the negative affects of cheese and candy?

[@silentflight1]

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess"

[@Kazuma-des]

No conflict of interest because of the compliance with ethical standards. I really question their ethical standards.

[@roivosemraiva]

Thank you for being thorough in your investigation. We can see clearly the dairy is holding back on health information.

[@osnatshaibe1534]

Corruption, fraud and deception (and they’re certainly in abundance) aside.....I honestly want to know - is cheese really bad for us?

[@CodieOnline]

Are there any studies that claim cheese increases cardiovascular disease risk?

[@m_m991]

None

[@tedcoombs7762]

Conflicts of interest: dairy, dairy, dairy, dairy, the fourth largest dairy company in the world, dairy, dairy, McDonald's, dairy.... lmmaaaooo xD

[@IvanBFit]

"Shhhhh! Don't tell the National Confectioner's Association....." "Too Late!!!!" Hahahaha! 😂

[@jbates725]

Great video, but the title really isn't fitting.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

I’m already plant-based. I eat cheese pretty rarely like on Neapolitan style pizza. My cheese intake averages to once per month.

[@flabio7074]

I’m like you. We eat cheese once a week when our family makes pizza. The pizzas are loaded with veggies otherwise and I’m not worried about a little cheese. Plant based cheese is just oil so I prefer the kids get the calcium, B12, iodine, and protein that fake cheese lacks. I’d personally rather just eat something that tastes good and plant based mozzarella is terrible.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

The Burger King , Pandemic has made it easy to avoid restaurants altogether and just be 100% vegan plant-based. I hope other people realized this too.

[@AH-cy4md]

I love the comparison of the government support/propping up of the dairy industry to the government doing the same thing with the soda /cola industry. Here in central PA, I've seen signs encouraging folks to support/save local dairy farmers. Um, no. I'll support them in getting out of the dairy business and into production of something that more folks want/need, like fruits and veggies!

[@michaelcalibri3620]

These industry studies should have huge delayed penalty clauses such that if the information is deemed faulty later they suffer incredible penalties since the positive spin probably benefited them in the interim.

[@swimbait1]

I like cheese but if you take some and put it in a hot pan and see what it turns into it’s no wonder it’s bad for the heart. I rarely eat it anymore.

[@Brockdorf]

But you didnt really answer if cheese is bad for you?

[@narrowgate4229]

So deceptive! Thanks Doctor McGregor! My son's school "hot lunch" Menu goes like this: Chicken product Monday (nuggets, popcorn chicken etc) Tuesday Mac & Cheese or more Chicken product, Wednesday is Fish Sticks, or Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese, or another chicken product, Thursday is Hot Dogs or of course another chicken product,& Friday is always pizza day ( my son says it's nasty and all the kids in his grade do not like it). As a low income school where the families of most the children are below federal property level these children eat processed animal garbage at school and sadly most likely eat the same garbage once they get home. It makes me sad and angry! The schools don't even cook anymore, they just warm up some prepacked processed 'foods". So discussed!

[@BlackKettleRanch]

Well, this had nothing to do with whether cheese is really bad for you. A moderate amount of organic cheese is good for you. It adds to the diversification of intestinal flora along with other benefits. Most people who are lactose and/or wheat intolerant actually suffer from weakened digestion from the terrible American diet. They have leaky gut syndrome. If they detox, change their diet, and rebuild their digestive fire, then harder to digest proteins like wheat and dairy aren't a problem. Humans throughout the centuries have always eaten wheat and dairy. It just wasn't the toxic, genetically modified shit people eat today that's pushed by corporations.

[@ksulli5505]

Nutritional facts, more like cognitive bias.

[@Booooberrie]

I mean he used sources dude

[@Avital4414]

So, if candy and dairy are consumed in quantity by rich Europeans, and rich Europeans enjoy relatively good health, who is to say that candy and cheese really are bad for you? Greger laughs at the idea, but it seems like an obvious obstacle to his conclusion.

[@bananas6543]

Yes, but what did the research actually say?

[@alexxander1768]

Upvote this if you want to be educated. Cows milk has 10-20x more estrogenic compounds than human milk. The industry will tell you it's 'insignificant' but anyone who has cut dairy out of their diet knows the truth, it's a major effect. Now for the kicker... cheese is compounded and takes 10 lbs milk per 1 lb of cheese. So eating cheese hasessentially 100-200x more estrogenic compounds than human milk, which already has a lot of estrogen in it. After I gave up cheese and dairy, I noticed a greater drive to get things done, I was making more decisions less impulsively, and I was sleeping better overall. Another thing to understand about cheese is it is loaded with morphine (painkiller) compounds and other antibiotics if you buy it in store (even natural/organic). And it's not a small dose. And one of the worst things about taking painkillers is it turns off your bodies natural ability to regulate them... so when you want to go out and play soccer with your kid, or lift weights, or whatever... you don't have those painkillers to keep you going. It's so insane how there is a monopoly on information and it took me 20+ years to figure this out.

[@jhadesdev9576]

But is cheese good for you or not?

[@MayIPleaseAskYou]

JHades Dev may I please ask, Why are you consuming SOLIDIFIED COW 🐮 🐄 BREAST MILK or as humans like to call it - ‘cheese’ NO‼️ consuming dairy cheese 🧀 is NOT Good as it promotes DisEase and Death Please watch the next video about ‘cheese’ Is cheese healthy? Compared to what? nutritionfacts.org/video/is-cheese-healthy-compared-to-what/ You do know the Blood of MOTHERS 🐮 AND 🐄 BABIES is IN your ‘cheese’ PLEASE WATCH #DairyisScary kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5SxaIZ9fNR2hKs #TheScaryTruth kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGWoqZh3e6l9eZY All about dairy nutritionfacts.org/topics/dairy/

[@arefrigerator396]

Any video that promotes better health without a financial motive deserves a thumbs up in my opinion. Thank you. ☺

[@evaj.8799]

Dear doctor you making more and more friends.... with those big companies....

[@chrisjenkins8207]

Govrrnment should be abolished!!!!

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

Great video but it had little to do with the title. Please change the title.

[@songofyesterday]

I can't imagine a world without pizza and butter. But it's also disheartening to know what calves and cows have to go through for these products.

[@erink3760]

You can have plant based pizza and butter that does not support the torture of calves and cows! It's the very best decision I've made, give it a go there's nothing to lose!

[@DPest86]

Cashew cheese that can be made at home is an awesome alternative to dairy cheese for pizza and my none vegan family love it.

[@oops6876]

There’s a bajillion oil based, heart healthy butter alternatives. Cheese is harder to find a good tasting replacement, but I enjoy Daiya when I want melts cheddar flavors.

[@Ben-fr8gi]

Awesome pizza can be made without cheese. Just need a good pizza marinara recipe :)

[@singularity333]

ahhhh you forgot to cite the studies saying cheese is bad ..

[@johnharvey5412]

How much does one dead horse need to be beaten?

[@johnharvey5412]

nutritionfacts.org/?s=Dairy

[@singularity333]

@@johnharvey5412 The title is misleading. I only learned that dairy has its hand in a lot of scientific studies.

[@terryheasley7027]

Wow...very enlightening!!

[@JeremyFisher711]

this was not really about cheese.....gimme the facts about why it's so bad

[@jcmmmbrains2718]

It's a great practice to encourage/remind people to account for the source of funding in studies, and I understand the concern with conflicts of interest when certain organizations clearly have much to gain by certain results; however, it's much better to focus on debunking their results/claims and not IMMEDIATELY ASSUMING they are lying. Research costs ALOT of money (especially in food science) and it's unreasonable to expect a random organization to care about your random research focus and throw money at your project than an organization that specifically cares about that field of study. Ex: Would you give your money to someone who contacts you and proposes to identify whether the use of a certain ply of toilet paper leads to an increased risk of hemorrhoids? ...No? Me neither, but a toilet paper manufacturer might. Again, amoral research practices do happen and skewed data can sneak its way into publishing, so it's of relevance to FACTOR IN the source of funding. However, it's of secondary importance to the legitimacy of their methodology, and the interpretation of their results; which you determine by reading the study and not JUST the headline and who paid for it.

[@bdvd]

I am someone who avoids cheese, but I'm still not sure why. I think you did a fantastic job of showing the propaganda behind these studies, but it didn't really answer the video's title: Is Cheese Really Bad For You? After the video, I can conclude that it isn't good for me on the premise of the dairy industry's involvement in funding these studies. But what makes cheese bad for me?

[@rileyesposito3043]

I thinking it gives you bad bacteria in the gut. Also milk produced by cow with too much chemical stimulation for making milk

[@tamasadrian9802]

You do a great job Mr. dr Greger, thank you, very appreciated and greetings from Hungary.

[@PoterBoter]

So there is no evidence that cheese is unhealthy, but the studies that have been done are non conclusive because of the funding from the dairy industry and the influence that has on the studies. I am a dietician myself and i find it very difficult to find a study about milk/cheese etc. that hasn't been funded by the dairy industry. I hope that an unbiased meta analysis comes out soon.

[@parnianx]

You are my number one superhero Dr Greger! Dairy Dairy Dairy bit was so funny!! Funny and not really funny. Unbelievable and disgusting :/ thank you for exposing these industries

[@et8736]

Yeah i know lol !! - its like he wants a fight with dairy lol - of course he wins lol

[@TomVFormOfficial]

Thank you for your powerful videos! Always enjoy watching.

[@Savitur1]

Well said sir! Truth will reveal itself. Health is wealth

[@cynicalidealist11]

Yes, it really really is.

[@sharit7970]

Wow!! Thanks for doing the research and posting!!

[@davidthurston3577]

I watched the video but did not hear the answer to the question. So is cheese really bad for you?

[@vitalsign0]

So should we ignore all studies sponsored by the PCRM?

[@DPest86]

Tell me what product does PCRM sell?

[@vitalsign0]

Alex TZM Credibility. The PCRM has a bias in that they support animal rights. That could skew whatever results they want in their favor.

[@DPest86]

@@vitalsign0 Show me where they support animal rights.

[@earthpet]

@@DPest86 From PCRM About Us: "to create a better future for people and animals." That shows an admitted animal bias. Not a trustworthy source of objective nutrition. This is concerning since animal products are ubiquitous in diets throughout the world.

[@DPest86]

@@earthpet Firstly I've just checked the first 3 fully viewable studies that the PCRM were involved in on their website and none of them were actually funded by them but by the government/official institution. Secondly even if there is an ethical bias funding a study, it doesn't mean the study itself is wrong or flawed it just means we could question the motives of it and check it's design etc. Thirdly an ethical bias is not the same as a profit based one, if I need to explain how the difference is important then I think I'm done here.

[@Globox822]

And yet Dr Bubblehead will tell us that every vegan agenda study is unbiased. Like that Netflix shit movie he is in

[@someguy2135]

"Is cheese really bad for you?" Wow, is cheese really bad for you!

[@Plantbased7]

My Parents refuse to give up eating cheese and other animal products. I keep trying to educate and convince him, but they just refuse to listen. Its so frustrating.

[@veganfortheanimals6994]

Great video...insane that this is going on

[@LordJasonKing]

So we can’t eat butter, fat, sugar or anything. What are we supposed to eat? It stresses me out all this.

[@NeilAC78]

Oh come on! There's a huge difference between processed cheese from MacDonalds / Taco Bell compared to high quality European cheeses, especially raw which is loaded with probiotics, Vitamin A, Calcium and K2-MK4 which cannot be found in any plant food. Also B-vitamins (specifically B-12)

[@FX51]

Dr. Greger - you're the best. This should be sent to our newly minted and open minded house of representatives.

[@DoodleDoo]

thank you for making these incredible videos. it's very sad how corporations and the government have sold out.

[@littleblindbean]

I legit just wonder how cheese is healthy. I know it is but like how. I didn’t want a whole political study of the evil corporations and the nasty rich people.

[@liamsism]

Cheese that fast food companies use even not a cheese. It just looks the same, that is it.

[@GitfiddleMike]

This video didn't answer its own title. It should be titled: Conflicts of Interest in Government Funded Research (or, Cheese Conspiracy).

[@TheHadMatters]

Isn't it not even a conspiracy theory that the US government actively promotes dairy consumption because it's an easy way for them to funnel hormones into children? At the time it probably originated from honest well-intentioned efforts to supply B12 and other newly discovered undersupplied essential nutrients, but by now it's gone all over the place. My ex-girlfriend from the USA talked about this to me, and it makes a lot of sense, looking at the younger ages for puberty there. Also, in defense of the US: This is one regard where the EU has lots of backwards bullshit, too. In many regions, animal husbandry is among few agricultural industries, so governments easily get into the habit of dumping money into it when farmers suffer from insufficient demand for their excess hyper-efficient cow farming products.

[@xerotomic1953]

So is cheese good for you?

[@olabanas7658]

One of the best and funniest videos!

[@nancyhey1012]

This is why I advise people to take all nutritional studies with a grain of salt, always find out who is funding the studies. So many that encourage people to consume meats and other animal products like eggs and dairy are funded by people who have an obvious conflict of interests. Animal agriculture has enormous lobbying power.

[@turbonbc]

Who needs cheese when you have Cashews. Can make way better, more nutritious, more biocompatible and far more tastier cheese with Cashews.

[@whiteangel7777777]

Dr Greger I really wish we can come together as a society and petition, to remove food commercials, just like they removed smoking commercials. Food they advertise are killers, and it is a way to brain wash us. a type of hypnosis. Please start this Dr Greger it will save lives

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

I don’t believe anything on the internet about how what we should and shouldn’t eat

[@HenchHerbivore]

Only if you consumed it, PHEW! Or if there are dairies in existence causing ecological disaster. SHIT!!! 😱

[@patblack2291]

The dairy checkoff program taxes dairy producers and uses the funds to increase dairy consumption. USDA runs the program. They start these programs as "voluntary" taxes that the producers choose to pay, and then years later make it mandatory for all producers, large or small. Interestingly, if kale producers wanted a checkoff program, they too could go to USDA and get it set up. Then for every 100-weight of kale they produced, they would send in a payment to USDA, who would develop and run a program to increase kale consumption in the US. They haven't done this. The reason you see milk ad campaigns is that the dairy industry funds them by taxing themselves. Hey vegetable farmers, are you listening?

[@dodgeball693]

Ahhhh the 'summer of cheese' was a grand time! But opposite of the 'Summer of Love' because of the constant constipation and break-outs ☺️😜😅

[@DavidAndersen84]

Get 'em Doc! Give 'em science.

[@22terrytibbs]

Well, is cheese bad for you? Proper cheese, not processed................

[@roblovegreen]

Cheese is like the crack cocaine of dairy. 😋

[@Vladimir144]

You should see the mess in the Canadian military. So called sald bar is packed with cheese cuts, the salads are dress with dairy based dressing and the fridge is packed with most expensive yogurts. A good use of taxpayers money right?

[@enoshima3038]

I've never heard so much ignorance from a doctor and at the same time being so biased. 1. If OR, RR, and HR are less than 2.0, then there's no evidence at all that something it's bad. 2. In Europe cheese is cheap. 3. It doesn't matter who funds the studies, it just matters the way that study has being done, and what results you get.

[@Booooberrie]

What did he say that was ignorant he used sources for everything

[@LordFlashheart]

This is the same across all areas. It just shows that you can't trust anything that references a 'study'.

[@scream8870]

Lmao, the state supports big dairy by *buying surplus cheese*, subsidizing them and providing free advertising, wtf.