(Apologies for the very slow response; I forgot that this discussion was ongoing.) "The dose makes the poison" and even without hormesis it can be the case tha

(Apologies for the very slow response; I forgot that this discussion was ongoing.) "The dose makes the poison" and even without hormesis it can be the case that very small doses of something do you no actual harm because whatever they do is within the range your body can fix quickly. I haven't seen a study showing that people eating blue cheese (or Brie and Camembert) have worse health; have you? Chocolate may be "a superfood" but most chocolate also contains quite a lot of sugar, which is (tasty but) very bad for you. I am pretty sure most people who eat substantial amounts of chocolate would be healthier rather than less healthy if they ate less. Most bacon is cured using nitrates and nitrites, which on cooking produce (slightly) harmful compounds. All red meat seems to be at least a little bit bad for you, too. To repeat, I'm not saying that we shouldn't eat chocolate and bacon. I eat plenty of them myself. But when we do we're making a tradeoff between present tastiness and future health, and if the same's true for Brie and Camembert then that doesn't seem fundamentally different. And I would be sad if any of those things became unavailable.