Give Your Grandma Some Farmer Cheese!
May
17Posted in [General Health], [Nutrition] By LifeWayKefir LifeWayKefir
5/17/2010 8:09 AM
Instead of sticking a zillion candles in a boring cake when Grandma hits 85, you might want to swap in a tub of Lifeway Farmer Cheese. That’s right, a new Finnish study has found that daily consumption of probiotic-containing cheese can enhance immune response in older individuals.
As we age, our immune response naturally declines (that’s why you often hear flu vaccines being recommended for the elderly.) But hot-off-the-presses research out of the University of Turku in Finland shows that probiotic cheese activated natural killer blood cells – major immune system players - and increased the body's ability to destroy invading bacteria in a process called phagocytosis (no snickering allowed!)
The research team asked volunteers aged between the ages of 72 and 103, all of whom lived in the same care home, to eat one slice of cheese with breakfast for four weeks. Some subjects were given either probiotic Gouda cheese; others received a placebo slice. The results were clear: “"We have demonstrated that the regular intake of probiotic cheese can help to boost the immune system and that including it in a regular diet may help to improve an elderly person's immune response to external challenges,” explained lead author Dr Fandi Ibrahim from the University of Turku.
If you’ve never tried Lifeway Farmer Cheese, you’re missing out on a creamy, moist cheese not unlike cottage cheese in texture. Made from our Old World European recipe, it adds unmistakable flavor and texture to the eating experience. It’s very low in fat, sodium, cholesterol and calories and has a distinctive, slightly acidulous, pleasantly smooth flavor. We’ve got regular, low fat, fat-free, pressed, and organic, or as an addictive, sweet mixture with golden raisins and chocolate chips called Sweet Kiss. Like milk, cheese is a veritable powerhouse of nutrients, considered to be one of the very few nearly complete foods. Snap some up for grammy – or yourself – today!
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