Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/06/chocolate-candy-or-health-food/
I was interviewed by Cindy Kuzma, a reporter for VICE, about research on chocolate. Her story is here. Her questions were great (I wish all reporters asked such interesting questions). Here’s our Q and A:
CK: I noticed you haven’t written about chocolate for a while—perhaps it has been quiet on that front, or there are just a lot of other things happening! But another study about its health benefits, this time in regards to atrial fibrillation, brought it to my editors’ attention. Rather than just report on those findings they’ve asked me to take a broader view of the issue, which I appreciate.
MN: First let me comment on this study. It is trying to tell me that 1-3 ounces of chocolate a month produces measurable health benefits? That seems incredible and probably is, particularly because nothing is said about dose relationships.
CK: How do you explain briefly to consumers why studies of health benefits linked to a single food are problematic/not terribly useful at best? (You’ve used the term “nutri…
Source http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/06/chocolate-candy-or-health-food/
I was interviewed by Cindy Kuzma, a reporter for VICE, about research on chocolate. Her story is here. Her questions were great (I wish all reporters asked such interesting questions). Here’s our Q and A:
CK: I noticed you haven’t written about chocolate for a while—perhaps it has been quiet on that front, or there are just a lot of other things happening! But another study about its health benefits, this time in regards to atrial fibrillation, brought it to my editors’ attention. Rather than just report on those findings they’ve asked me to take a broader view of the issue, which I appreciate.
MN: First let me comment on this study. It is trying to tell me that 1-3 ounces of chocolate a month produces measurable health benefits? That seems incredible and probably is, particularly because nothing is said about dose relationships.
CK: How do you explain briefly to consumers why studies of health benefits linked to a single food are problematic/not terribly useful at best? (You’ve used the term “nutri…
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