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Question - I just noticed that Cottage cheese has quite a bit of protein in it... I thought I read some negative feedback on cheese and body building at one time

Whats the verdict on Cottage cheese?

Before I started the MANS way of eating I used to eat a ton of cottage cheese, it's good for a late night pre bedtime meal as the casein means a slower release of protein. If your on a low carb diet yourself I would recommend a low carb cheese like chedder which contains hardly any carbs but more fat. You can of course find very low carb cottage cheese but I normally save it for a carb up becuase I cant find a really low carb one myself. As far as the body building you may have read negative info on higher fat cheses but from what I've read cottage cheese is one of the top body building foods, high protein, low fat great combo for some.

Thanks Man! I appreciate it - I noticed it was a little higher in carbs, but its not to bad if you don't eat a ton of it. I think a cup of it has around 6 carbs, and 28 grams of protein. Its a little tougher to squeeze in on a low carb diet but for the protein boost I think its worth it

Full cream cottage cheese is an awesome food. Its interesting that years ago, before L glutamine supplements became popular, bodybuilders and strength athletes ate tons of it, finding that it somehow made them perform better. Little wonder then that it is the highest food source of L glutamine, and is packed with slow release protein. And we all know the benefits of all that fat. Full cream cottage cheese also has reasonable amounts of calcium and magnesium. I suspect that a lot of its benefits come from the way the glutamine and other nutrients can be digested and utilised, due to the slow digesting protein combined with the cream. The same bodybuilders and strength athletes of the past realised that cream makes protein much more useable. Dietry fat helps hormone profiles as well, so I think they discovered one of the ultimate muscle building foods. Glutamine supplements are notoriously inefficient, little of what is consumed actually gets used in recovery, and today's low fat protein craze is hindering protein's efficiency also, as well as the hormone thing. But, nowadays as virtually all professional bodybuilders used in advertising are totally, utterly drugged up, these issues are masked, to the detriment of natural trainers. Full cream, no added salt cottage cheese is best.