According to researchers, le fromage contains a special compound which occurs naturally in food: spermidine.

They went on to explain that this compound is “able to prevent liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, developing by stopping damaged cells replicating”.

This means that. instead of living to 81, you could make it to 100 – although scientists added that you’d had to have begun consuming lots of the compound from childhood.

A goal which, when we look back on all the cheesy goodness we’ve dipped into over our lifetime, we’ve probably managed to achieve.

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