00:00Is there a bias against ice cream?
00:02What happens when consensus makers are confronted with a finding
00:06that seems to contradict everything they've ever said before?
00:10That was the dilemma when a Harvard doctoral student named Andres Artisan Cora
00:14was presenting his research on the relationship between dairy foods
00:18and chronic disease to his thesis committee.
00:21The Atlantic reports one of his studies concluded that among diabetics,
00:25eating half a cup of ice cream a day was associated with a lower risk of heart problems.
00:30As the site reported, such a conclusion had the nation's most influential Department of Nutrition puzzled.
00:37Were they going to support the idea that a dessert loaded in saturated fat and sugar
00:42might actually be good for you?
00:44Needless to say, Artisan Cora and his committee were asked to have every type of analysis.
00:49They had thrown every possible test at this finding to try to make it go away,
00:53and there was nothing they could do to make it go away.
00:56People who ate more ice cream were less likely to have problems like heart attacks,
01:01strokes, or coronary blockages requiring stents.
01:05Scientists may fear the results,
01:07but it's not the first time ice cream seems like a beneficial dietary choice.
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