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The simpler explanation is that cheese is expensive so people who eat it likely have better health anyways due to their wealth

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> that cheese is expensive

Not in countries that produce a lot of cheese.

Cheese is a common inexpensive staple in Europe. You’re overpaying for cheese.

Or buying the wrong cheese.

Some cheese can be quite spendy.

Or both, overpaying for crap. But this is America, and only the people who travel outside of it learn how food and other things are treated better elsewhere.

One should show to Asians how much some of these American versions of tofu are being sold at high end supermarkets like whole foods.

Tofu is a poor mans food (a bit like Asian milk free version of cheese), but companies have repackaged it to Americans as fancy.

What could be fancier than blocks of fermented soy that generally all taste the same (not that much taste is there)?

But cheese is probably healthy anyway. It's milk minus the sugars.

Not if you smoke cigarettes and eat cheese with bread(like pizza). I feel such studies are dubious for specific people. Instead understanding of kinetics of мetabolic system probably better way forward.

That I don't really remember statistics of science experiments.

> ...understanding of kinetics of мetabolic system probably better way forward.

Completely agree.

> мetabolic

   metabolic

What keyboard layout are you using? =]

or layout(s), more likely!

I just bought some cheese: 1pound of sharp cheddar for USD 3.65, listed as 1760 calories. Not very expensive.

That's more than most meats and vegetables, definitely on the higher side of groceries. Too expensive to eat a whole bunch with every meal.

$4 for a day's worth of calories? How much do you spend on food every day?

What meat are you buying for $3.65 a pound?

That's more expensive than chicken, most pork, ground beef, turkey... Obviously, prices depend on location and where you shop, so they may be different, but this has been my experience across a few states (all in the midwest or southwest, though, so my food is probably cheaper comparatively if you're a coastie).

Yes, I'm coastal for now and meats are more expensive than basic cheeses, may be reflected in how I shop.

Good cheeses, more expensive than meats, but oh boy are they tasty. A nice mimolette or tomme...

How many calories in a pound of chicken, pork, or beef?

Cheese isn't necessarily expensive though. Regular block cheese is quite cheap and then you have things like cottage cheese too that are very affordable. The study doesn't say they only look at fancy cheeses.

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