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Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Are chocolate, coffee and red wine actually good for us? Reading the news it seems that one day they are helping us live longer, and the next day they are giving us heart attacks. So what’s going on here? Host Wendy Zukerman and DJ/senior producer Kaitlyn Sawrey explore the science live on stage, with interview clips from Prof. Bruce Ames, Prof. David Sinclair and author Aidan Goggins. This show was recorded live at The Bell House on Thursday, March 23rd, 2017. If you want to listen to the Q&A after the show, sign up to become a Gimlet member for $5 a month. If you sign up for a year, you can receive a Science Vs t-shirt! Our Sponsors:Cloudflare - To learn more visit cloudflare.com/sciencevsWordpress - go to wordpress.com/science to get 15% off a new websiteHello Fresh - For $30 off your first week of meals go to hellofresh.com and enter the promo code SCIENCEVS30 Credits: This episode has been produced by Wendy Zukerman, Heather Rogers, Diane Wu, and Shruti Ravindran. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. Edited by Annie-Rose Strasser. Fact checking by Diane Wu and Ben Kuebrich. Sound design and music production by Matthew Boll, and mixed by Austin Thompson. Music written by Bobby Lord. Extra thanks to Martin Peralta, Rachel Ward, Eric Mennel and the Bell House, and live show art by Alice Lay (which you can see at facebook.com/sciencevspodcast) Further Reading:JAMA Review - Are antioxidant supplements associated with higher or lower all-cause mortality? David Sinclair’s Study: Resveratrol improves health and survival of mice on a high-calorie dietAlcohol and coronary heart disease: a meta-analysisCoffee Meta-analysis: Coffee consumption and mortality from all causes…Habitual chocolate consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease among healthy men and women Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and this is Gimlet Media's Science Vs.
0:03.6	I just wanted to say at the beginning of the show that if you like what we're doing here
0:09.6	at Science Vs, we would love if you could give us a review on iTunes.
0:14.9	We cover some pretty controversial topics.
0:17.6	Some people don't like them.
0:20.0	So if you do, we would absolutely love it if you could give us a nice review.
0:28.4	So we're the show that pits facts against everything else out there.
0:32.0	Fads, fears, feelings and now we're diving into red wine, coffee and chocolate.
0:39.4	And we are asking, are these foods good for you or bad for you?
0:44.7	But we're taking this show out of the studio and onto the road.
0:48.7	Well, onto the stage, the bellhouse in Brooklyn, New York, where we recently performed science
0:55.2	versus to a very wonderful and very packed crowd.
0:59.8	And on stage with me was Senior Producer Caitlin Sory.
1:04.0	So we're now going to play you that performance without further ado, science versus red wine,
1:10.0	coffee and chocolate.
1:11.6	And today, our very first show in New York, we are tackling some of our favourite foods,
1:18.2	red wine, coffee and chocolate.
1:21.4	And we pick these foods because they're the best.
1:26.0	And also because we keep hearing how amazing they are for our health.
1:33.4	This is news that I just love to keep reporting on.
1:36.7	Wine is good for your health.
1:39.4	And chocolate.
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