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Eating a piece of chocolate a day will make you obese? Lol

• brigandish 3y ago
  As straw men go, it's badly cut. Firstly, do you think the people eating chocolate every day are less or more likely to be obese than those who do not eat chocolate every day? Secondly, why would that alone make one obese? It's the correlation between a single data point and an outcome that suggests other behaviours which would contribute are also present (hence the first question).
  • staplers 3y ago
    Depends on the chocolate. Darker chocolates in small amounts per day can positively affect health.
    • brigandish 3y ago
      Do you always follow up a straw man with cherry picking and hope it to be persuasive? The vast amount of chocolate bought and consumed in every major economy is not dark, nor, if the figures are to be believed, are they being eaten in small amounts. Cadbury, Hershey et al are doing fine.
      • staplers 3y ago
        What is your point? Whether one eats a lot or a little chocolate, it should still be safe to eat.
        • brigandish 3y ago
          I covered the calories part of safe here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38125905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38125905