The riff on New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" license plate couldn't make it to the actual license plates here in Wisconsin, but it was the winner of our Wisconsin hearts and minds. Of course, in real life on real license plates, it had to be "America's Dairyland." And 40 years later, it still is... though it looks as though we might be about to replace it (with something simpler).
Anyway, speaking of real life, the implausible slogan — "Eat Cheese or Die" — may be (sort of) true. I'm reading "A Study Linked Cheese to Lower Dementia Risk. Is That Too Good to Be True?"
In a large new study published today, researchers found that eating high-fat cheese or cream was associated with a lower risk of developing dementia.... In the 1990s, researchers recruited about 28,000 adults, age 45 to 73, in Sweden... Then, in 2014 and in 2020, the researchers looked at how many of the participants had developed dementia....
By 2020, about 10 percent of people who reported consuming at least 50 grams daily of high-fat cheese, like Cheddar, Brie or Gouda, had developed dementia, compared with 13 percent of people who consumed less than 15 grams daily. Fifty grams of cheese is about 1.8 ounces — a little more than the recommended U.S. serving size of 1.5 ounces, an amount in two sandwich-size slices of Cheddar cheese. (U.S. guidelines recommend that adults consume about three servings of dairy per day, with most choices being fat-free or low-fat.)...
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Eat cheese burgers - and die happy.
The Plates look nice. So the state Government is doing something right for a change.
Say please and diet.
Well, I'm sold!
"You can keep it, Wisconsin!"
Wisconsin: Cutting the Cheese Since 1848
Heat meats or dry.
"By 2020, about 10 percent of people who reported consuming at least 50 grams daily of high-fat cheese, like Cheddar, Brie or Gouda, had developed dementia, compared with 13 percent of people who consumed less than 15 grams daily."
Years ago I read a white paper by a prominent epidemiologist regarding the difficulties of these kind of uncontrolled studies. He wrote that, without a complementary hypothesis as to why the result is true, he required a measured effect of 2 or 3 TIMES before he put any credence in the result. Ever since, I haven't put any stock in studies that find eating X results in a, for example, 30% increase (or decrease) in outcome Y.
And now we know why “cheesy” is synonymous with “cheap” and “shabby.”
I agree with Original Mike.
Does anyone remember when Wisconsin (The Diary State) disallowed the sale of oleomargarine?
Driving up from Chicago, the northern part of Illinois was covered in "OLEO" signs. Doctors advised heart patients to avoid butter (due to high cholesterol) and use Oleo.
I guess the experts were wrong ... again.
"Does anyone remember when Wisconsin (The Diary State) disallowed the sale of oleomargarine?"
I do! The adults talked about it like they were smuggling drugs up from Illinois.
Does The Dairy State still not allow oleomargarine to be colored?
License plates - whatevs. You guys should change the state song to the opening credits of That 70s Show, sung by Cheap Trick. CC, JSM
I always thought the plates should read "Smell Our Dairy Air"
Reminds me of the time a few years ago when the UK put to the public the naming of a ship. Not an RN ship, just a research vessel. Boaty McBoatface won by quite a bit. Of course the government didn't do it. Probably the right call.
Here in VA, we have a plate available with "kids first" at the bottom. Someone purchased a vanity plate with "EAT THE" above the slogan. It was briefly banned. I think it's back.
You can certainly die by not having any cheese at all.
"What a senseless waste of human life."
Rogue Cheddar (1967)
Well, it beats Cheeses Saves
For a while, NH's slogan should have been "Mask Up or Die "
"Well, it beats Cheeses Saves"
No it doesn't!
10 percent vs. 13 percent in a self-reported study doesn't seem to be statistically significant (or valid). Also both figures seem way too high for the percentage of people who develop dementia. Maybe the non-cheese eaters live longer and therefore are more likely to develop dementia in their last years?
That being said, I eat a lot of cheese. And fat. (I am not a fat person) I seem to recall seeing recent studies about the importance of lipids in maintaining brain cells, and the deleterious effects of statins in that regard.
Those are pretty tame compared to our choices in Florida. I think there are over a hundred different designs. My plate is the Army of Occupation plate with the Army medal of the same name on it. It was a new design in 2022.
https://www.flhsmv.gov/2022/06/02/flhsmv-announces-12-new-florida-specialty-license-plates/
Google AI seems to agree with me on the age issue. It also says that 10% of people over 65 develop dementia, with the percentage increasing substantially over 85 years. (US stats, not Sweden).
Senator Dupree: [during the Senate subcommittee] Mr. Naylor, there's no need for theatrics.
Nick Naylor: I'm sorry. I just don't see the point in a warning label for something people already know.
Senator Dupree: The warning symbol is a reminder, a reminder of the dangers of smoking cigarettes.
Nick Naylor: Well, if we want to remind people of danger why don't we slap a skull and crossbones on all Boeing airplanes, Senator Lothridge. And all Fords, Senator Dupree.
Senator Ortolan Finistirre: That is ridiculous. The death toll from airline and automobile accidents doesn't even skim the surface cigarettes. They don't even compare.
Nick Naylor: Oh, this from a Senator who calls Vermont home.
Senator Ortolan Finistirre: I don't follow you, Mr. Naylor.
Nick Naylor: Well, the real demonstrated #1 killer in America is cholesterol. And here comes Senator Finistirre whose fine state is, I regret to say, clogging the nation's arteries with Vermont Cheddar Cheese. If we want to talk numbers, how about the millions of people dying of heart attacks? Perhaps Vermont Cheddar should come with a skull and crossbones.
Senator Ortolan Finistirre: That is lu - . The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese!
I don’t know about this study. I eat a lot of cheese and..and..and. Oh forget it.
The study is confounded, people who eat cheese are more likely to eat the little weird bologna things that Wisconsin people slice up and put on the cheese. The little sausages may be the true cure.
Josephbleau said...
“The study is confounded, people who eat cheese are more likely to eat the little weird bologna things that Wisconsin people slice up and put on the cheese. The little sausages may be the true cure.”
Or at least cured.
So being a cheese-eating surrender monkey is actually a good thing?
The people of Wisconsin are so demented that huge masses of them wear fake cheeses on their heads. I've seen it.
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