Comments on: Epistemological Indulgences

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By: Jari

Jari — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:42:25 +0000

Maarten, not just red wine but alcohol itself can be good for you. (See ‘Drink And Be Healthy’ at http://www.roughgang.com.) However, there are obviously other things to consider such as the bad unscientific driving you might be doing afterwards.

By: andyl

andyl — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:59:24 +0000

How many chocolate raisins do I have to eat for them to count as one of my five portions of fruit and veg a day?

By: Ben Goldacre

Ben Goldacre — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:13:59 +0000

heh i’m going to sort out enabling comments on the miniblog soon.

By: emilypk

emilypk — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:56:06 +0000

p.s. on the ‘is you housing killing you’ link in the mini blog–I especially liked: “…and a PhD investigating indoor air in homes.”

That must be a very clever PhD indeed!

By: Maarten Van Hemelen

Maarten Van Hemelen — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:43:34 +0000

Isn’t red wine good for you? I mean, in moderate quantities like one or two glasses a day, not like drinking two bottles in one hour.

By: Observer

Observer — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:30:02 +0000

Ben wrote: ‘My favourite Christmas traditions are the “red wine is good for you” and “chocolate is good for you” stories’ Do you get the good effects of both with brandy filled chocolates?

By: DeeTee

DeeTee — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:03:16 +0000

I see CocaCola are promoting Coke plus “antioxidants”. It has a lovely ad with green swirly surrounds and naked people in a garden of Eden type scene – To make people conflate it with being eco-friendly as well as being heart-friendly and nasty to cancer cells?

By: AitchJay

AitchJay — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:48:24 +0000

Nice article Ben, punchier than your usual, I like it..

Merry Xmas all!

By: BSM

BSM — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:40:31 +0000

For the real toxic double-whammy try chocolate raisins for dogs.

http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology/f/grape_raisin.htm

The quantities required for chocolate toxicity are not huge, but you’d probably know the dog had had some and early intervention usually helps.

By the way, I just reminded myself of the figures from the Veterinary Poisons Information Centre:

Milk Chocoloate 9g/kg
Dark Chocolate 1.2g/kg
White Chocolate 2.2kg/kg. (Yes that is more than twice their bodyweight in white chocolate and I think even a labrador would struggle with that.)

So only 1oz of dark chocolate can poison a labrador and I’d always recommend seeking advice for any significant ingestion.

My own pup ate a load of chocolate coins last Christmas. She weighed 4.2kg at the time and I spent a festive afternoon emptying her stomach.

The danger of raisins and grapes is that it may be an idiosyncratic reaction where some animals are fatally affected by an apparently trivial dose. So a couple of grapes may not harm some dogs but kill others.

And on that cheerful note,

Merry Christmas

Badly Shaved Monkey MRCVS

By: Twm

Twm — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:20:27 +0000

Vitamin C jus short fo Vitamin Chocolate?

Apparently lots of dogs are taken to vets this time of the year due to acute chocolate poisoing because they cannot metabolise the theobromine quick enough.

http://www.gsrne.org/Chocolate.htm

When it comes to pooches, death by chocolate is a real concern.

One of the problems with reading about free radicals is that they are presented as devastating chain reaction with no end – unless you take the intitative and start actively consuming antioxidents(with a pill being a good way to catch up).
It does sound scary.

Free radicals are implicated in the aging process also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory

I’ve heard many descriptions of freeradical exposure as “like your body rusting”.
By following a restricted calorie diet, you might live longer. But that would rule out chocolate anyway.

Personally i would rather die at a “normal age” than have to give up kit kats and ostrich egg scotch eggs.

By: thekumquat

thekumquat — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:13:07 +0000

When I was little I had a Ladybird cookbook, which informed me that it was important to eat lots of chocolate as chocolate was ‘high in iron, which is needed for healthy blood’.

Sadly my mum disagreed and told me not to believe everything I read in books. Which was probably a useful lesson in the long run…

By: Ambrielle

Ambrielle — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:38:54 +0000

Don’t forget chocolate-covered raisins and nuts for that extra protein and vitamins.

By: tregenza

tregenza — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:35:40 +0000

Maarten said: “Isn’t the most important thing that you get variation into your menu?”

Definitely – so make sure you eat a good balance of milk, white and dark chocolate.

By: Maarten Van Hemelen

Maarten Van Hemelen — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:07:35 +0000

I never quite got why people are so obsessed with this. If you like to eat chocolate, it probably won’t kill you if you don’t overindulge. Isn’t the most important thing that you get variation into your menu?