Todd,

        I'd say "thank you" for your post, but I'd be lying -- what I was
really looking for was an excuse to go on eating cheese.  Oh, well, I've
found it becomes easier and easier to become "purer" paleo, the longer I
go on and the less I cheat.

Robert

> >Does anybody know of a nutritional reason not to eat cheese?
>
> Yes.  Casein has a low ratio of the amino acid arginine to
> lysine.  Research suggests that a low arg:lys ratio worsens blood
> lipids.  In fact, casein is used by scientists to induce
> hypercholesterolemia in laboratory animals.
>
> Todd Moody
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