# The health pros and cons of daily eating cheese

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-health-pros-and-cons-of-daily-eating-cheese/780851 "2017-02-26T17:59:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-health-pros-and-cons-of-daily-eating-cheese/780851/21 "2017-02-27T12:36:00Z")

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> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> If you suffer from lactose intolerance, then you know what the cons are.

That depends on the cheese; mainly on its age. Naturally-aged cheeses (such as manchego or parmiggiano) and fermented cheeses (such as real emmental) contain little to no lactose.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-health-pros-and-cons-of-daily-eating-cheese/780851/22 "2017-02-27T13:11:33Z")

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Agree that for post #3 of a GQ thread my hyperbole about Kraft singles was excessive. My apologies to one and all.

**wolfpup** captures my actual attitude more accurately. As \*\*Derleth \*\*says, the naturalistic fallacy is indeed a fallacy. As is the opposite assumption that extra ingredients in processed foods and the chemical consequences of that processing are always and everywhere benign.

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