High-Fat Dairy May Protect Your Brain Health, Study Suggests

Findings challenge the idea that lower-fat dairy is always the better choice for brain health.

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A 25-year study of nearly 28,000 people has upended common assumptions about cheese and brain health. Higher intake of high-fat cheese and cream was linked to a modestly lower long-term risk of dementia, while low-fat dairy and most other dairy products showed no clear link with dementia risk.

“This [finding] challenges the idea that lower-fat dairy is always the better choice for brain health,” Emily Sonestedt, co-author of the study, told The Epoch Times.

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The research, published in Neurology, found that people who ate 50 grams or more of high-fat cheese daily had a slightly lower risk of dementia compared with those who ate less than 15 grams.