Hello, welcome, and thanks for downloading the more or less podcast with me Paul Connolly.

Now each week we zoom in on numbers in the news and in everyday life,

and the digits down for discussion this week live in your food.

Here's loyal listener Antonio to explain.

There's a debate going on within my family

as to whether eating chocolate can be healthier than eating

salads. Can you please help settle this debate with your calm and recent analysis?

Now to those of you grumbling to yourselves under your breath about how preposterous a proposition

that is, well...

I think the answer is it depends.

Dr David Katz is a prominent nutritionist and co-author of how to eat your food and diet questions

answered.

On a level playing field, no, it's not correct. By level playing field, he means a world in which the purest of chocolate is pitted

against the very healthiest of salads.

salad wins, we know that, No surprise is there, but...

I suppose there's a scenario where the right chocolate and the wrong salad are lined up against

one another and that statement could be valid.

Right chocolate, wrong salad.

Challenge accepted and the search for both of those begins now.

So remember Antonio, our loyal listener,

asked if chocolate can be healthier than salad, can being

the operative word.

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