November 14/New York/Reuters Health -- Doctors and nutritionists have long recommended avoiding all animal fats to trim cholesterol, but Danish researchers report that cheese may not be so bad, and probably should not be lumped in the same category with butter.
Their study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that people who ate daily servings of cheese for six-week intervals had lower LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, than when they ate a comparable amount of butter. The cheese-eaters also did not have higher LDL during the experiment than when the same subjects ate a normal diet.