Is there a bias against ice cream? What happens when consensus makers are confronted with a finding that seems to contradict everything they’ve ever said before. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
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00:00Is there a bias against ice cream?
00:02What happens when consensus makers are confronted with a finding that seems to contradict everything
00:08they've ever said before?
00:10That was the dilemma when a Harvard doctoral student named Andres Artisan-Fura was presenting
00:15his research on the relationship between dairy foods and chronic disease to his thesis committee.
00:21The Atlantic reports one of his studies concluded that among diabetics, eating half a cup of
00:26ice cream a day was associated with a lower risk of heart problems.
00:31As the site reported, such a conclusion had the nation's most influential department of
00:36nutrition puzzled.
00:37Were they going to support the idea that a dessert loaded in saturated fat and sugar
00:41might actually be good for you?
00:44Needless to say, Artisan-Carratt and his committee were asked to have every type of analysis.
00:49They had thrown every possible test at this finding, to try to make it go away, and there
00:54was nothing they could do to make it go away.
00:56People who ate more ice cream were less likely to have problems like heart attacks, strokes,
01:01or coronary blockages requiring stents.
01:05Scientists may fear the results, but it's not the first time ice cream seems like a
01:09beneficial dietary choice.