I don't cut back as far as expected on cheese - I go through a lot of LactAid - and I pick up a lot of saturated fat elsewhere, as CalorieKing shrieks at me nearly every day. I think there's a growing awareness in the medical community that a lot of it is genetically determined - my mom has very low levels of LDL and high levels of HDL, and is overweight (although not as much as I am), and she's not lactose intolerant* and also eats a decent amount of dairy. She's got high blood pressure, as did her father, but it showed up when she took a course of prednisone. Hasn't showed up in me yet, and I hope that with establishing a pattern of daily exercise, it'll help with that.


* Although she carries the recessive gene for it, because, as has been recently discovered, it takes two recessive genes for someone to end up lactose intolerant, so I got whammied from both sides on that one.