It’s the season for raclettes and tartiflettes but be careful because cheese is fatty and therefore only moderately good for your arteries. Treat yourself without overdoing it.
It’s the Dr Jean-Michel Cohen who says it. If you want to protect your arteries – and therefore your heart – go easy on the cheese. “We have to be careful with cheese because it is milk fat and therefore saturated fatty acids which have the particularity of block the arteries“ he explains in a video posted on his account Instagram. Concretely, what does “be careful” mean? Because when you are a cheese lover, full season of raclette and tartifletteit can be difficult to hear.
For the nutritionist, if you have no health problems, you can eat between 50 and 75 grams of cheese per day a quarter of Camembert or Emmental 250 grams for example, or 2 to 3 slices of raclette cheese. That’s not much, say the gourmands. Dr. Cohen agrees that one can “to let go” on this typical winter dish but “once a month, no more”.
Raclette, once a month no more?
If we have to cholesterolproblems cardiovascularyou have to go downbelow 50 grams of cheese per day for preserve your arteries of a possible obstruction. Knowing that the fattest cheeses are pressed pasta (Comté, gruyere…), blue cheese, Roquefort or even Vacherin. Conversely, the least fat is the cancoillotte. Also be careful with particularly salty cheeses if you havehypertension as the celebrated and THE Roquefort.
On the other hand, there is no point in completely eliminating cheese if you like it because it has its health benefits. Cheese is the food richest in calcium, essential for bone growth and the renewal of the skeleton at all ages of life. Especially hard doughs as the Parmesan, Emmental, Beaufort, Comté and Cantal. It also contains protein (up to 30% in pressed cheeses), phosphorus, zinc, selenium as well as vitamins A, D, K, B2 and B12. Finally, since cheese is fermented, it enriches the intestinal microbiota and improves digestive comfort.