Story that claimed eating ice cream for breakfast will make you smarter points to a bigger problem

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A viral story that claimed eating ice cream for breakfast will make you smarter points to a bigger problem in health journalism

For the love of all that is good and true in this world, please stop telling people to eat ice cream for breakfast.

Listen, I get it. It's fun to write a headline claiming that ice cream is good for your brain. People love to share good news — and this news is all over my Facebook feed.

But it's also important for everyone — especially the journalists who are spreading this — to share the truth. And there's just no good reason to believe there's any truth to this claim.

Reporters repeating it are, at best, irresponsibly elevating a single dubious study. At worst, they're uncritically helping to spread what amounts to fake news.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dont-eat-ice-cream-breakfast-2016-11

[petronius]

1. Pfff. This dude is just a shill for Big Nutri

I had an ice cream sandwich for breakfast yesterday, and I had a great day - so obviously it works. But the oppressive Whole Grains, Lean Proteins, and Healthy Fats mega-conglomerate doesn't want us to have this true and helpful info so they sent out this paid shill to disrupt it...

[Nay]

2. I can't read the article because it rejected me for having an ad blocker, but I will

assume that the study simply shows that having a sugary and fatty breakfast boosts brain function for a couple of hours. Teachers have known this for many years; that's why they recommend students have a carby/sugary breakfast before major testing, for example. In my grandson's school, they even pass out a candy or two before testing, knowing that there are plenty of kids who don't eat breakfast for one reason or another.

That doesn't mean ice cream for breakfast is good for you, however.

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3. Open the link in an incognito window.

I use AdBlock Plus in Chrome. When I right click on a link and "Open link in incognito window", ABP is not engaged in the incognito window and the pages view OK.