Comments on: Pet Please #72: When Scientists Decide That Something Delicious Is Good for You

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:13:03 +0000

Well, I am a black coffee kind of girl, so score! Although, my free birthday drink at Starbucks today was a Venti triple espresso Cinnamon Dolce Soy latte…. so I am going to tell myself that I made the healthy choice, anyway.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:08:08 +0000

Melanie, I’ve actually heard that coffee can be good for you. There’s a recent study out there somewhere. But the benefits decrease if you add milk or sugar. You have to drink it black to reap the health benefits! That makes it no fun, IMO, personally I can’t drink it straight.

By: Jamey Stegmaier

Jamey Stegmaier — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:49:08 +0000

I know I’ve been absent from the comments today, but I just wanted to say that I love the additions of bacon eggs, as well as the idea of scientists deriving their greatest joys from tearing the dream away from the rest of us.

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:32:42 +0000

Wait, bacon isn’t good for you?
Bacon is part of breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Ergo, bacon must be healthy.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:08:19 +0000

BACON.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:32:02 +0000

Rock. On. I am going to live to be 190. #winning.

By: ALW

ALW — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:22:20 +0000

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/16/152835058/can-coffee-help-you-live-longer-we-really-want-to-know

Also, we get paid so little, we can’t afford to do normal fun things like going to the movies or riding a bike through the park. Therefore we have to get our fun from somewhere – and the general public is so easily manipulated. Can you really blame us?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:52:36 +0000

Red and I have clearly mind-melded. I was just about to comment on The Incredible Edible Egg, and its back-and-forth saga from unhealthy to healthy and back again!

I believe that the only joy in a scientist’s life is to declare a food healthy, wait for people to grow fond of it as a health food, then suddenly announce that NEW evidence shows it’s actually horribleawfulkiller unhealthy. Somewhere, at the time of that announcement, there is a lab full of nerds in white coats rubbing their hands together with glee and emitting a heartily evil BwaaHaaHaaaaaa.

Two points for medical science. General public: zero.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:46:31 +0000

On the topic of “good for you” and “scientists” I give you The Egg. People have been eating eggs since before we domesticated The Chicken (yes, that one chicken). Like 15 years ago, we heard that eggs weren’t good for us, and everyone panicked. A few years later, they said they were fine. Then they came back and said that the whites were fine but the yolks were bad, and we got egg beaters, some kind of liquid egg (still, better than those powdered eggs). I don’t like making moral judgments on food. When studies are done, the scientists should usually report findings; such as that they observed people who ate eggs they saw X, or that they have witnessed Y in people who eat eggs. But the facts are usually presented to us in TV Teaser ads as “Are Eggs killing you? Tune in at 10 for the answer.” If eggs have arsenic in them, let’s get it out on the table. Otherwise, let me know the situation, and I’ll decide for myself.

Also, this idea that one food is better for you than another has more to do with your personal health history, what activities you do on a regular basis, and if you have some kind of health goal you’re working toward.

If I was to make a food healthy for you, and someone already worked out Pizza, I’d shoot for Cast-iron Chocolate Chip Cookies w/Ice Cream.

By: Jamey Stegmaier

Jamey Stegmaier — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:35:55 +0000

I do like sweet iced coffee–it was all over the place in Japan. I’ll go to Fitz’s to check it out. Thanks for the tip! Hopefully scientists will tell me that it’s healthy.