How to Lower Cholesterol: Eat Some Cheese

For a Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry study, Danish researchers compared urine and fecal samples from 15 healthy men whose diets either contained cheese or milk, or who ate a control diet with butter but no other dairy products. They found that those who consumed cheese had higher fecal levels of butyrate, a compound produced by gut bacteria. So what? Elevated butyrate levels have been linked to reduced cholesterol, which may explain why the French are able to eat so much fromage without suffering the consequences of heart disease.

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