![]() ![]() This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. (Harvard’s Nutrition Source website calls ice cream an “indulgent” dairy food that is considered an “every-so-often” treat.) As a public-health historian, I’ve studied how teams of researchers process data, mingle them with theory, and then package the results as “what the science says.” I wanted to know what happens when consensus makers are confronted with a finding that seems to contradict everything they’ve ever said before. Still, the abject silliness of “healthy ice cream” intrigued me. Spurious effects pop up all the time in science, especially in fields like nutritional epidemiology, where the health concerns and dietary habits of hundreds of thousands of people are tracked over years and years. ![]() And there was nothing they could do to make it go away.” “He and his committee had done, like, every type of analysis-they had thrown every possible test at this finding to try to make it go away. This was obviously not what a budding nutrition expert or his super-credentialed committee members were hoping to discover. ![]() “I do sort of remember the vibe being like, Hahaha, this ice-cream thing won’t go away that’s pretty funny,” recalled my tipster, who’d attended the presentation. View MoreĮarlier, the department chair, Frank Hu, had instructed Ardisson Korat to do some further digging: Could his research have been led astray by an artifact of chance, or a hidden source of bias, or a computational error? As Ardisson Korat spelled out on the day of his defense, his debunking efforts had been largely futile. Some early evidence also suggests that sweeteners might interfere with the body’s mechanisms for metabolizing sugar.Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. It’s unclear why, but scientists speculate that regularly eating or drinking sugar substitutes may also cause people to crave sweeter foods more often, or people may believe that because they haven’t consumed calories, they can splurge elsewhere. A recent report analyzed 37 studies on zero-calorie sweeteners and found that despite have few or zero calories, they don’t actually help people lose weight - and instead may contribute to weight gain. Some nutrition experts are skeptical about low-calorie or artificial sweeteners. Halo Top also uses prebiotic fiber, which Woolverton says is a natural type of fiber derived from plants like chicory root, to give the ice cream more texture and body. While many sugar alcohols are thought to be linked to gastrointestinal problems, Gans says erythritol is typically less potent than others. For added sweetness, it also uses organic cane sugar - which is still sugar - and erythritol, which is a type of sugar alcohol. To keep calories low, Halo Top uses the zero-calorie sweetener Stevia. MORE: Artificial Sweeteners Are Linked to Weight Gain-Not Weight Loss There are also plenty of sources of protein, from chicken to quinoa, that are more nutritious than ice cream. ![]() But getting enough protein isn’t an issue for most Americans federal data shows that American adults consume around 15% of their daily calories from protein. Humans need protein to repair cells and encourage healthy growth and development. “Most people eat ice cream after eating dinner, and most do not need extra protein.” “ Protein is such a hot nutrient right now, and people are buying it without really knowing why,” says Gans. Nor should people prioritize getting protein from their dessert. ![]()
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