Which Way Is Life

How cheese is harming your health, the benefits of ditching cheese, and how to break the cheese habit with Dr. Neal Barnard.What You’ll Learn in this Episode: How he came to study cheese. The science behind cheese addiction. Why the cheese habit is so hard to break. What cheese does to your body. How to break the cheese habit. Easy cheese swaps. The positive health gains from ditching cheese. More from his book The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy. High Five Highlights: What made you fall in love with medicine? The year before medical school, I was an autopsy assistant at Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis. One day, a man died of a heart attack. The pathologist showed me the man's diseased heart, and I felt the atherosclerosis with my own hands and it was stunning to me. That day they were serving ribs in the hospital cafeteria, and I just couldn’t eat them. As time went on, I realized I had to help people understand how nutrition affect