DailyDirt: The Unquestioned Benefits Of Chocolate
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
In a few days, a lot of chocolate will be eaten by kids (and maybe their parents), and there will also be a lot of discounted candy and chocolate on sale in many grocery stores. Just so that we don't feel too bad about indulging on Halloween treats, here are a few studies that might ease our guilt for a while.- The chocolate consumption of an entire country can be correlated with the chances of winning Nobel prizes. This study brought to you by the Correlation Is Not Causation Foundation. Seriously. [url]
- Chocolate can be made even healthier by replacing its fat content with fruit juice. By the addition of a Pickering emulsion of fruit juices and milk, a low-fat chocolate can maintain its chocolatey taste and texture -- which will just encourage chocoholics to eat even more chocolate than they should.... [url]
- If you're looking for an excuse to eat more chocolate, a study of 1,000 adults found a correlation that people who eat chocolate more frequently tend to be thinner. To really complete this study, the researchers would need to compare chocolate eaters with non-chocolate eaters -- and come up with a realistic chocolate placebo. [url]
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Filed Under: causation, chocolate, chocolate placebo, correlation, emulsion, nobel prizes
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I'm only half joking.
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Fat vs sugar
> its fat content with fruit juice.
When will this nonsense die? Fat doesn't make you fat. It was removing fat and replacing it with sugar in the 70s that caused the obesity epidemic.
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Not for those of us who are allergic to milk. :-(
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chocolate and slavery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_cocoa_production
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OK, so if rich people eat more caviare than poor people, eating more caviare could make me become a rich person! I love this logic.
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Now I am eating chocolate.
DAMN YOU MICHAEL HO !
(and your food related Saturday articles)
(you can pay for my soon to acquire diabetes ; )
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"This study brought to you by the Correlation Is Not Causation Foundation." -- That sentence was my way of saying this study was specifically designed to demonstrate that statistics are misinterpreted....
You can try to find correlations between almost any two variables, but it doesn't mean there's any kind of causation relationship between them.... and there's definitely no causation relationship between chocolate consumption and winning a Nobel prize.
This is one of my favorite XKCD cartoons:
http://xkcd.com/552/
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I hope that you can see how completely backwards and wrong it is, what you have done here.
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Sorry for trying to be too clever in this post.
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The Last Word
“Now I am eating chocolate.
DAMN YOU MICHAEL HO !
(and your food related Saturday articles)
(you can pay for my soon to acquire diabetes ; )