{"id":227573,"date":"2025-12-21T05:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/could-cheese-protect-your-brain-health-study-links-high-fat-cheese-and-cream-to-lower-dementia-risk"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:04:52","slug":"could-cheese-protect-your-brain-health-study-links-high-fat-cheese-and-cream-to-lower-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/could-cheese-protect-your-brain-health-study-links-high-fat-cheese-and-cream-to-lower-dementia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Could cheese protect your brain health? Study links high-fat cheese and cream to lower dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-cheese-protect-your-brain-health-study-links-high-fat-cheese-and-cream-to-lower-dementia-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eating more high-fat cheese and high-fat cream may be linked to a lower risk of developing dementia, according to a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neurology.org\/doi\/10.1212\/WNL.0000000000214343\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Neurology<\/i>. This study does not prove that eating high-fat cheese and high-fat cream lowers the risk of dementia, it only shows an association.<\/p>\n<p>High-fat cheeses contain more than 20% fat and include varieties such as cheddar, Brie and Gouda. High-fat creams typically contain 30\u201340% fat and include whipping cream, double cream and clotted cream. These are commonly labeled as \u201cfull-fat\u201d or \u201cregular\u201d versions in stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, the debate over high-fat versus low-fat diets has shaped health advice, sometimes even categorizing cheese as an unhealthy food to limit,\u201d said Emily Sonestedt, Ph.D., of Lund University, Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating more high-fat cheese and high-fat cream may be linked to a lower risk of developing dementia, according to a new study published in Neurology. This study does not prove that eating high-fat cheese and high-fat cream lowers the risk of dementia, it only shows an association. High-fat cheeses contain more than 20% fat and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}