The takeaway for me is this: the "health benefits" of ice cream are not explored because the scientists "do not believe in them" (actual quote). This is powerfu

The takeaway for me is this: the "health benefits" of ice cream are not explored because the scientists "do not believe in them" (actual quote). This is powerful! The positive health effect measured was a little stronger than yogurt, yet it went underreported because yogurt has "better press" so to speak. Another interesting thing is that they thought the ice cream effect could be a case of "reverse causation" (people with diabetes or health problems drop ice cream, making it seem ice cream eaters are healthier), yet when taking this into consideration ice cream was still a bigger factor than yogurt! Yet subsequent studies that refer to these ones claim that the "ice cream effect" has been written off as a case of reverse causation when actually this didn't write it off at all! So in summary, scientists cannot explain why ice cream has the effect they measured, which is slightly stronger than yogurt, but it was kept out of the health food narrative simply because they suspect something is off -- but they cannot say what!