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...but before you start celebrating, there's a catch.
In the study, the benefits came to those consuming only one measly chunk per day, or one bar a week.
And then only if it's used to replace a similar number of calories of other snacks. Nutritionists are such spoilsports, aren't they?!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8593887.stm
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Meanwhile, The Daily Wail has discovered that "Booze Britain" isn't a new concept - they've published a rogues gallery of police photos of Edwardian era drunks (although perhaps more puzzling is why a private website is slapping copyright notices on public domain images...)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260872/Ancestry-Edw...
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And talking of puzzling, a Guardian columnist has decided that the most dangerous drug in the UK is...
...newspapers!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/22/charlie-...
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Studies have shown...
that the same volume of dark chocolate provides over 3x the benefit of milk chocolate...
Other studies have shown that 60% of all statistics are made up on the spot. (Just kidding on this one, but it is commonly reported.)
My GP told me that a small piece of chocolate a day was fine (18 years ago). It's that "moderation" word that gets us into trouble.
Annette
Only 60%?
I always thought it was 84.7% of statistics that were made up on the spot...
...including that one!
(The above also highlights another fallacy - unnecessarily precise statistics. You could argue that 41 people claiming to like a particular shampoo out of a survey of 49 was 83.67%. Or in the case of a certain margarine, "more people" prefer the taste of their product over butter - the small print statistics reveal it was 102 / 200. Hardly conclusive! Graphs with the bottom 3/4 missing are also fun...plus anything else in this book.)
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
This makes me giggle,
This makes me giggle, because I was famous when I was a kid for being the slowest eater. It probably contributed to my being a skinny runt, but I won the snack-wars all the time.
You know, when you and your sister each have one bag of chips and a chocolate bar? It didn't matter who I was with, I always had some left after they finished. A chocolate bar could last me all day. Looks like my frugal chocolate-bar eating ways were, in fact, good for me!
A drug on the market
Well, certainly the most dangerous drug in the industrialized world is…particular newspaper journalists! I’m thinking of the likes of Walter Lippmann (coined the phrase, “Manufacture of Consent”), “Poison” Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Edward Bernays (the two founders of the Public Relations industry), and Woodrow Wilson’s WWI “Committee on Public Information.” The consumer culture these people sold us is a dangerous drug indeed.
Only some newspapers surely
I guess he is referring to the 'Red Tops' plus the Daily Flail and Sexpress.
If he meant all newspapers then isn't he in danger of 'doing a Ratner'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner (for those on the Left Hand side of the Pond)
Probably
he meant to point a finger at “those other newspapers over there” but, if he did neglect to specify that, then I suppose he did ‘do a Ratner’ (though surely with less consequence than Gerald Ratner’s comments), even if he did not mean to. Most likely, that was Ben’s point, and I’ve seen it done elsewhere. Wish I could find that quote, now, of a Microsoft employee expressing his appreciation for the market power of the Microsoft franchise, which sells their products in spite of the excessively high cost to the user for supporting the software.