section_path: Nutrition and health/Cardiovascular disease
section_name: Cardiovascular disease
paragraph_text: Cardiovascular disease
  
  National health organizations, such as the American Heart Association, Association of UK Dietitians, British National Health Service, and Mayo Clinic, among others, recommend that cheese consumption be minimized, replaced in snacks and meals by plant foods, or restricted to low-fat cheeses to reduce caloric intake and blood levels of LDL fat, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.