For all the cheese fans, you should now aware to this tasty and actually healthy food. Because there is an effect recently observed that the saturated fat found in dairy products can make cancer cells work faster.
Who wouldn’t love consuming cheese? For all this times we know that this tasty food is the best companion of cakes, spaghetti, soup, and various desserts. Not only well known for its deliciousness, as it is produced from fresh cows’ milk, we also know that cheese contains a good amount of calcium which is good to maintain the health of our bones as well as the growth of our teeth.
But after a research conducted in the Netherlands, it was found that cheese can increase the risk of bladder cancer. The fact is related to the cheese consumption with the amount of over 53 grams per day. Different from the fat produced by olive oil, which can actually protect our body, the saturated fat found in dairy products like cheese can make the cancer cells work faster.
The researchers involved about 200 cancer patients and 386 volunteers who are free from the risk of tumors. When both groups compared by giving them more than 53 grams of cheese per day to consume, it was found that the risk of bladder cancer appeared to increase more than 50 percent. But the results of this research cannot be absolutely trusted yet, because considering its healthy benefits, the researchers in Netherlands and Belgium cannot decide that cheese is a dangerous threat to our health. Therefore, further research is needed in order to make the findings more valid.
Although the result of the study has yet proven to be accurate, we better start to limit our daily consumption of cheese. Preferably less than 53 grams per day, that you still can get the benefits of this product without having to worry about further risks it may trigger.