Six chips a serving

Q: Did you see there’s an exact number of chips that’s healthy?

A: Doesn’t it depend on how big they are?

Q: Apparently not. It’s from a Harvard professor!

A: You know, the more Harvard professors you meet, the less you think they’re automatically right about everything.

Q: It’s based on research! In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition!

A: That’s more promising.  Link?

Q: 🤣

A: <sigh>. Ok, the story is originally from the New York Times, and they link

Q: Is it in people?

A: Yes

Q: Not randomised, probably.

A: No

Q: So they compared people who ordinarily eat just 6 chips in a serving with normal people and there were health differences? Where did they find the six-chip people?

A: It wasn’t a comparison of six chips to more than six.

Q: Ok, but still larger servings vs smaller servings?

A: No. People who eat fried potatoes more often (like 2-3 times per week) had a higher rate of death than people who ate them less often.

Q: I suppose that makes sense. Especially if you consider what sorts of meals you usually eat with fries.

A: They’d prefer you  focus your attention on the actual fries, not on anything else you eat.

Q: So that gives the message ‘fries are bad’. Why six?

A:  It’s not specified

Q: 🙄

Q: So he’s really saying NO SAFE LEVEL and RISK OF DEATH WITH EVEN ONE just like with bacon and alcohol and driving?

A: To be fair, he’s actually trying not to say that. Or even that normal servings of chips should be BANNED!!.  In fact,  he said later that he just wanted the option of a six-chip serving.

Q: And how popular is that likely to be?

A: Well, here’s the other result I got from searching for “six chips”