# Cheese and yogurt consumption seems to reduce death rates
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** food-cooking
**Created:** [October 4, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211 "2020-10-04T21:45:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/21 "2020-10-11T09:27:05Z")
Yep. A good reason to move to Switzerland. And as it’s getting cold outside, it’s time for fondue! Last winter was very mild. We never got in the mood for fondue. This fall has already brought snow down below 2000 m, so it could be a very cold winter.
> **[Why the Swiss live longer](https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-expectancy_why-the-swiss-live-longer/41857826)**
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> The average Swiss boasts one of the world’s highest life expectancies. Wealth, well-being and eating cheese are three of the secrets. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Since the beginning of the 20th century life expectancy from birth in Switzerland has almost...
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/22 "2021-09-25T10:56:48Z")
My mother drinks a quart of milk every day, for most of her life. She’ll be 101 in November.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/23 "2021-09-25T12:35:26Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Whenever I have the real cheese (the extra-sharp Tillamook in the black wrapper), usually accompanied by pieces of “fresh” apple, if the hour is late, I end up having especially crazy dreams. Has anyone else noticed that?
Cheese consumption leading to weird dreams is an ancient trope.
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### Author:  [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/24 "2021-09-25T12:41:46Z")
Last time I checked, the mortality rate was still 100%.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/25 "2021-09-25T13:35:23Z")
The point is that dairy consumers live longer. So, more life plus we get to eat all that cheese and yogurt.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/26 "2021-09-25T14:37:04Z")
Eating cheese extends your life?
I still don’t think I’ll see the Lions in the Super Bowl.
mmm
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/27 "2021-09-25T14:54:08Z")
Cheese extends life. Cheese expands consciousness. And waistlines. Cheese is vital to rural travel. The Cheesing Guild and its navigators, whom the cheese has mutated over four thousand years, use the orange cheese slices, which gives them the ability to fold space.
But Lions in the Super Bowl? It can’t do miracles like that.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/28 "2021-09-25T16:47:34Z")
> [@jaycat](#):
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> Last time I checked, the mortality rate was still 100%.
I plan to live forever – so far, so good.
— Steven Wright
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### Author:  [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/29 "2021-09-25T16:53:08Z")
I dunno if I believe these studies. A life without cheese certainly _seems_ longer.
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### Author:  [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-yogurt-consumption-seems-to-reduce-death-rates/922211/30 "2021-09-25T16:54:41Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> I plan to live forever – so far, so good.
> — Steven Wright
I plan to live forever, or die trying!
–Groucho Marx.
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