A short guide to how those absurdly positive stories about unhealthy foods (chocolate cures heart disease!) happen
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1) Compound is found inside unhealthy food - for example, resverotrol in red wine
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3) For example, resverotrol in red wine improves some markers for inflammation in mice! Cool!
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4) Elsewhere, a Big Wonderful Study is brewing. This is a huge observational study that looks at a lot of things
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5) The Big Wonderful Study (BWS), amongst other things, finds that eating more of the original food is correlated with a health benefit
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6) The authors of the BWS say that *maybe* the benefit they found is associated with the compound from point 1)
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7) Journalists read the first line of the press release of the BWS and say the original substance must be good for your health
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8) I slam my face into my hands and start working on a new blog
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