Super-Meal Me

Check out this Yahoo story telling everyone to eat something called Polymeals, or Supermeals. It's basically a meal that you eat every day that includes all the various foods known to prevent or delay heart disease. Here's the money graph:

The Polymeal includes ingredients that research has consistently shown can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease. The menu includes wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruits, vegetables, garlic and almonds. All ingredients must be consumed daily in the recommended amounts, except for fish, which research suggests should be eaten four times per week.

So, they want you, every day, to eat wine, dark chocolate, fruits, vegetables, garlic and almonds. Hmmm...sounds like that could get old pretty fast. I mean, my roommate makes a mean garlic and rutabega chocolate souffle with a white wine sauce and almonds sprinkled on top, but I don't know if I could eat it every day.

This is just another example of why nutritionists are dumb. They're always coming out with bizarre new experimental ideas that contradict one another. Other scientists aren't always doing this, like saying things like "Don't eat carbs!" and then coming back two days later with "If you don't eat any carbs, you'll die!" and then changing it to "Eat carbs but only the kind contained in dark chocolate!" They have one consistant opinion: the world if round, for example.

You don't see front page stories on Yahoo every other week saying things like "Scientists advance new 'world is cylindrical' theory." They came up with a theory, tested it, and made a conclusion. Basic stuff.

Also, what could possibly be the ingredient in dark chocolate, but not other kinds of chocolate with almost all the same ingredients, that makes it so good for your heart? And, if we know what it is, why can't we take it out of the dark chocolate, or replicate it in a laboratory, and inject it right into people's hearts? This is the kind of radical thinking we need in the scientific community. Too bad I didn't understand anything in chemistry beyond Boyle's Law.