The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy

by Jennie Richards · Published August 8, 2017 · Updated August 14, 2017

The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy

By Dr. Neal Barnard, MD, FACC

Love cheese? New York Times bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D., busts the myth that cheese is somehow good for us. In fact, he advocates it’s just the opposite.

Clinical researcher and author Neal Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C., is one of America’s leading advocates for health, nutrition, and higher standards in research. He is the principal investigator of several human clinical research trials, whose results are published in numerous peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.

In his new book THE CHEESE TRAP, Dr. Barnard reveals the shocking truth about cheese, and our dangerous addiction that is harming our health. The average American now eats 33 pounds of cheese a year, but the truth is that cheese threatens human health. Loaded with calories and cholesterol, 70 percent fat, and filled with bovine hormones, cheese can make you gain weight and fat, and leads to a host of health problems like high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease, many cancers and arthritis. Worse, it contains mild opiates that make it additive, triggering the same brain receptors as heroin and morphine. In THE CHEESE TRAP, Dr. Neal Barnard presents a comprehensive program to help readers break free of their cheese addiction so they can lose weight, boost energy, avoid chronic disease, and improve their overall health. This easy-to-follow diet features a treasury of healthy recipes that will tame even the toughest cravings—from pizza to lasagna and ice cream to cheesecake!