They setup a kiosk in a mall, and the women fell for it in droves.
Hmm, attacking chocolate now ... reminds me that I have a few chocolate mini-bars left. Now letsee, Almond Joy or Whoppers or Reece’s Cup?
"...it's like a chocolate stair-master in your mouth"
For the record, I don’t care. Give me chocolate!
There are many women in their 30s that apparently fell for it.
What about that chocolate triggers serotonin study?
I can swear it’s real. So, I may not lose weight, but eating chocolates make me feel good.
When will the journalists start doing this to “Global Warming” science.
Those “scientists” seem to be using bad science, also.
It seems it doesn’t take much “science” to get a paper like “Childhood Obesity caused by Man Made Global Warming” or some other ridiculous hypothesis published.
Obama will even pay for it with money from his “Obama stash”
It’s never just the weird old tip.
I have a friend whose wife is a nurse; she asked him to take over the cooking duties for her. He did, and cooked mostly in lard (as he does when he camps), but didn't tell her until she had her regular check up and saw that her cholesterol levels had dropped fairly significantly, and she praised him saying, "It's your cooking -- what have you been doing?" At first he just shrugged his shoulders and (wisely!) kept her in the dark because he knew that conventional medicine has so demonized lard that she wouldn't be able to handle the truth. But after a few more months, finally let her know that he was cooking with lard instead of margarine, plant oil, or butter. By that time she could take such "wrong" news as right.
Moral of the story? A lot of non-junk "science" is just as much junk as "junk science." Nutrition is not linear, it's chemistry.
This article focuses on health studies, but it perfectly describes about 95% of the popular science reporting on climate change.
Save for later.
Science by press release. Science Codex, Science Daily, Phys Org, etc. live by them. They mostly republish them uncritically, although some do link to the actual study. All too often, though, they’re behind a paywall.
On a low-carb diet - chocolate ain’t the problem - it’s the sugar typically used to sweeten it that is.
I make a low-carb chocolate mousse for Mrs. kevrkom and myself that’s a perfectly fine low-carb dessert, as sugar is the only ingredient that really needs to be subbed. (I’ve also done it as a mousse pie by making a crust out of ground almonds and a bit of butter and scooping the mousse into that baked shell.)
It doesn’t help weight loss in and of itself. But it does provide a legitimate sweet tooth option that helps us stay on-plan, so perhaps I can claim it’s indirectly helping. *shrug*
Mrs. kevkrom also uses unsweetened chocolate in her chili recipe, which gives it a rich taste and offsets some of the spice heat.
There is no subject where people are more easily misled or misinformed than nutrition. Almost everyone has a strong opinion and it is usually based on some type of lefty or sales propaganda.
The two diet fads that currently cause the most health problems are the anti-gluten movement, and the high protein low carb movement.
Anti-gluten adherents can stereotypically be identified as middle to late middle aged women who are pudgy and having hair loss problems. There is a very small percentage of the population that actually have celiac disease and have actual problems from gluten. The rest of the people eating “gluten-free” are just depriving themselves of foods that have important nutrients, not the least of which is gluten itself. Lack of these nutrients help prevent hair loss, poor skin integrity, easy bruising, and often moodiness and psychological problems.
The vast majority of those who have either self-diagnosed celiac disease, or had the help of a health food store employee, or even a self proclaimed “naturopath” do not actually have celiac disease. If you suspect you do... it would be much better to go to an actual doctor with an actual degree from a real medical school to have this properly diagnosed.
I don’t have the patience of the time this morning to get into a battle over the anti-carbohydrate high protein fad diets this morning. Suffice it to say that any diet that does not provide some sort of nutritional balance is just not a good plan for the long term. Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are all mostly carbohydrate. If you cut them out of your diet you are going to have a difficult time replacing the nutrients that they provide with protein bars, mixes and frozen dinners.
I have been round and round with friends who literally have destroyed their health by going on fad diets for extended periods of time. You can usually get away with it when you are young, but going on a fad diet when you are middle aged or older can literally trigger health problems that will eventually do you in.
Good nutrition is not complicated... eat a balanced diet that contains fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, meat, fish, poultry, and dairy products. Avoid excessive amounts of fat and refined sugar. If you are going to be eating deep fried foods then try to make sure they are fried in fats that help raise your HDL (good cholesterol) like olive oil. Use alcohol only in moderation. And exercise regularly. Am I forgetting anything?
Most of us know this almost instinctively and know that fad diets that promise amazing results are a lie. Isn’t that what everyone’s mother told them back in the day. My mom was a registered nurse so this is the type of advice she passed on. Why are people are easily misled on nutrition?
Ice Cream is a key to a long life!
The notion that chocolate helps weight loss hardly started or ended with Johannes Bohannon.
I’ve been reading about it scientific literature for 25 years.
Chocolate without the sugar and fat would do well for dieters...it’s darned near unpalatable!
How could any person honestly believe this? Then again, these are members of the human race, so I guess it’s plausible.
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I like the studies that show beer causes you to lose weight. I want to believe! I want to believe!