Love the "yes I love it but let's not overhype it low quality arguments that may or may not be true"
Instead of the religious "this is the best food you must eat" or "this is poison never touch it" that can always be at least oartly contradicted, so you don't know what to trust
Big headline for awful holed paper… cacao as coffee beans is so delicate in the process and if we want high polyphenols and great taste we have to look for and choose the best options… but we must be curious and ask for transparency
Good lord. If my tax dollars paid for any of the studies lumped into this rubbish, I demand a refund! 😆 How does this nonsense even get published? (The paper, not your evaluation of it!) Plus, weren't the studies included based on food frequency questionnaires or recalls? Those are extremely shaky "data" to begin with.
For my part it's 95% ethically sourced dark chocolate from Togo (brand is Alter Eco : 11g carbs, 3.9g sugar for 100g).
I dip it in crunchy peanut butter or in an all nuts butter from Fix & Fogg 🤤
But yea some studies are really dumb and I'm happy to finally read that someone thinks like me that it's almost impossible to do a proper randomized controlled trial for one food incidence on a chronic disease... and they want to make data say anything they want... I wonder why do people even waste their time doing such futile studies? (Were they paid by chocolate companies?!) If money was better allocated and funds were given to improve the systems so that shops only sell healthy foods, they wouldn't be here writting copium articles to make people think chocolate protects you from diabetes. But anyways I digress, I love your newsletters, keep them coming!
I love 90-100% dark chocolate, but I can eat a lot of it! It’s high in oxalates so I pretty much exclude all other oxalate foods so that I can still have my dark chocolate- but I think I still eat too much!
Well my daughter suffers crippling UTIs from them and I generally ache a lot after any exercise and wonder if it might be related. I mainly have preventative worries - don't want to find myself like Sally K Norton. Predicting the 'dumping syndrome ' is difficult - don't want to end up there, and it seems like it's years to undo any problems.
Love the "yes I love it but let's not overhype it low quality arguments that may or may not be true"
Instead of the religious "this is the best food you must eat" or "this is poison never touch it" that can always be at least oartly contradicted, so you don't know what to trust
Thanks. You get me.
Big headline for awful holed paper… cacao as coffee beans is so delicate in the process and if we want high polyphenols and great taste we have to look for and choose the best options… but we must be curious and ask for transparency
Agree. This is going to be a super fun video to make too :)
Good lord. If my tax dollars paid for any of the studies lumped into this rubbish, I demand a refund! 😆 How does this nonsense even get published? (The paper, not your evaluation of it!) Plus, weren't the studies included based on food frequency questionnaires or recalls? Those are extremely shaky "data" to begin with.
I didn't even mention that the correlation coefficients between a 7 day food log and FFQ were like 0.6...
Have a great Christmas Nic and I hope your guts have settled 😂🥩
And Happy Holidays to you too Ernie :)
For my part it's 95% ethically sourced dark chocolate from Togo (brand is Alter Eco : 11g carbs, 3.9g sugar for 100g).
I dip it in crunchy peanut butter or in an all nuts butter from Fix & Fogg 🤤
But yea some studies are really dumb and I'm happy to finally read that someone thinks like me that it's almost impossible to do a proper randomized controlled trial for one food incidence on a chronic disease... and they want to make data say anything they want... I wonder why do people even waste their time doing such futile studies? (Were they paid by chocolate companies?!) If money was better allocated and funds were given to improve the systems so that shops only sell healthy foods, they wouldn't be here writting copium articles to make people think chocolate protects you from diabetes. But anyways I digress, I love your newsletters, keep them coming!
I know and enjoy those brands as well. And amen on the "better allocation needed" ...
I love 90-100% dark chocolate, but I can eat a lot of it! It’s high in oxalates so I pretty much exclude all other oxalate foods so that I can still have my dark chocolate- but I think I still eat too much!
Why are you concerned about oxalates. Something specific?
Well my daughter suffers crippling UTIs from them and I generally ache a lot after any exercise and wonder if it might be related. I mainly have preventative worries - don't want to find myself like Sally K Norton. Predicting the 'dumping syndrome ' is difficult - don't want to end up there, and it seems like it's years to undo any problems.