Eating cheese could help you live longer...

For as long as we can remember cheese has always had a reputation for being bad for you... but now new research has given us the news we’ve been waiting for!

Aged cheeses like cheddar, brie and parmesan could help boost life expectancy AND prevent liver cancer.

The study, from Texas A&M University, found that these cheeses contain a compound known as spermidine which stops damaged liver cells from replicating.

After analysing spermidine treatment in mice over their entire lifespan, researchers found that their life expectancy increased by an impressive 25 per cent!

Further research is still required to determine whether this would be the same for humans. But if it did, it could help us reach 100 years old instead of the current life expectancy of 81.

Leyuan Liu, an assistant professor at the university, said: “Severely cutting the number of calories consumed, restricting the amount of methionine (a type of amino acid found in meat and other proteins) in the diet and using the drug rapamycin have been shown to truly prolong the lifespans of vertebrates.

”But eating less and not eating meat will not be welcomed by general population, while rapamycin has shown to suppress the human immune system - therefore, spermidine may be a better approach.“