In The Oldie, Dalrymple reviews a Swedish study suggesting that full-fat cheese and cream consumption protects against dementia.
I doubt, somehow, that the news will percolate quickly into popular consciousness, because self-denial is believed to be more virtuous and health-giving (increasingly the same thing) than self-indulgence. If Marie Lloyd were to be reincarnated, she would now sing, ‘A little of what you fancy does you harm.’