Re: Raw cheese vs. raw milk?

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> Is there any reason raw cheese is not a good substitute for raw

> milk? The Swiss villagers Price

> visited consumed cheese rather than milk most of the year. I am

> concerned with the usual

> sugar is bad for you message: milk is high in milk sugar (lactose)

> and has also been shown in

> experiments to spike insulin (it has a high insulin index) but not

> blood sugar.(*)

It may depend on the milk and on the cheese, but definitely the fact

that cheese has lost most of the sugar of milk is a huge point in its

favor. Of course you can also spike milk with heavy cream and ferment

it into yoghurt and/or kefir (both of which I do) to mitigate the carb

factor. I have noticed that raw grass-fed milk has effects on my

digestion which raw grass-fed cheese doesn't, for whatever that's

worth. (Depending on the state of my GI tract and on the quality of

the milk, those effects can go either way.)

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