Cheese Recommendations

[Alex_UK]

mmmmmmm... think I'm going cheese shopping soon!

[Yomanze]

High bake water crackers.

[Marco]

Some cheese and wine enjoyed yesterday, chez-moi:



Marco.

[AJSki2fly]

Oh, better post on topic! I love any cheese - a really ripe brie, anything blue, Austrian smoked, roule - yummy!

Not allowed any, CVD

[Alex_UK]

Not allowed any, CVD

Any? not even a little treat on your birthday, for instance, Adrian? "Everything in moderation" as my old granny used to say.

[AJSki2fly]

In truth I can have a very small amount of cheese occasionally.

For those of you that love cheese, chocolate, butter, cream teas, and any other regular diary intake, think carefully about your cholesterol levels, and another easily forgotten product is purchased coffees made with milk.

Prior to my heart problems becoming apparent 3 years ago, aged 57, weighed 12 stone, was relatively fit and ate what I liked, and had a cholesterol level around 5(normal). What I did not know was I probably have a genetic issue which means I have sticky arteries/veins.

Statistically 2 in 100 men over 50 develop full CVD and will have to have some form of medical intervention. Women are about half that at present, although for both sexes it’s increasing.

There are 5 main things that increase the likelyhood of developing Cardiovascular Disease, each one will increase the odds by 50%, so if you have two of them instead of 1 in 50 it will then be 1 in 12.5.

1. Genetic issues, history in family blood line or heart problems and CVD, it can skip generations.

2. A poor diet, resulting in being overweight, eating packet ready meals is just as bad high fat foods, the sugars in processed food will be converted to excess fat.

3. Lack of regular excessive, a minimum of walking 4 miles a day is recommended, and at least once a week at high cardiovascular exercise raising heart rate above 100 bpm.

4. Drinking too much alcoholic, more than recommended daily intake, and bing drinking is very damaging. Apart from increasing sugar levels and likelyhood of weight problems it has been shown to cause hardening of arteries which make it easier for fat to attach and block arteries.

5. Smoking will cause arteries to harden and enable fat to attach to arteries/veins much easier.

So it’s if you have all of 5 in your life then you have a 1 in 2 chance of developing CVD.

I personally would not recommend CVD, once you have developed it then it cannot be reversed, only drugs can be taken and operations can be done to try and slow the process, alleviate issues and re-plumb the heart to stop pump failure through oxygen starvation. The drugs are all unpleasant with side affects, and virtually every CVD patient I have met has suffered with problems from one or more of the prescribed drugs.

Stents put in arteries in the heart are often thought of by people as a cure to the problem as they are regularly used to stop a heart attack, they are NOT a cure, they are a temporary alleviation to the disease which will continue to progress and may require more surgical intervention in the future.

Heart Bypass surgery is done nowadays when stents would not be affective. Bypass is costly, has risks, and the patient recovery is quite intense. A good vein or artery is taken from the body, legs or arms and then grafted onto the hearts arteries to bypass the blocked veins and get blood supply and oxygen back to the heart.

I have had both stents and a bypass operation, which I am grateful for as they have kept me here and have improved my life greatly. Based on my experience I recommend to everyone that you consider carefully what you are doing to your body in both food/drink intake and general exercise. Once Cardiovascular Disease has started there is no turning back, and it can take 10 or more years to start to cause heart issues.

Think of the heart like a kettle that is nice and shiny when new, but each time water is put in it and boiled a calcium deposit some where starts, once there more calcium attaches to what is already there, and then before you know it the kettle needs descaling. The thing is you can descale a kettle not your heart. Finally I was told by a surgeon that more people die from CVD than Cancer.

I think that’s enough from me, have a happy and healthy life.

Adrian

[thingfish]

Kraft Dairy Lee or Primula.

QUALITY.

[Discopants]

We are very fortunate to have an excellent shop in town which sells a fantastic range of artisan British cheeses. I will treat myself to a couple of small pieces occasionally.

This brie de meaux style one is my favourite. Its way better than anything you could find in a supermarket, or France even


https://fenfarmdairy.co.uk/cheese/

[tapid]

Very nice write up there Adrian. Good of you to remind people that cheese is not all good news. Those 5 points are not really applicable to me personally but of course that does not
necessarily make me immune from bad stuff either. Salient points indeed

[stairpost]

I'm a little late to this thread, so I apologise if this one has been recommended before. There is a delicious Norwegian cheese called Gjetost, very sweet and caramelly. Not the sort of thing you can have a lot of but it's very very tasty.