This just in: Ice cream is healthy now, so here are the best shops in the Charlotte area.
So, it appears ice cream may be healthy now.
If it sounds unbelievable, you’re not alone — even researchers didn’t believe these mystery findings at first. In fact, the first associations suggesting ice cream may help prevent Type 2 diabetes began surfacing close to 20 years ago, according to an article last week in The Atlantic.
Read the sweet scoop in its entirety to unravel the complex set of events that led to the findings — and subsequent denials of — what researchers are calling the ice cream effect. “Consuming as little as a half a cup per week was associated with a 19 percent reduced diabetes risk,” stated The Atlantic.
“There’s this perception that ice cream is unhealthy, but it’s got fat, it’s got protein, it’s got vitamins. It’s better for you than bread,” Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of policy at Tufts’s nutrition school, suggested to reporter David Merritt Johns as a theory behind the findings.
My first reaction to this was “Well, ice cream for dinner then?” and I’m guessing I’m not alone?
Between this update and Charlotte’s temperatures beginning to finally feel like spring, we decided whether the science is sound or not, there’s no time like the present to launch this season’s searchable guide to the area’s best ice cream, gelato, custard, fro yo and more.
There are more than 65 places on the list, so 65+ reasons to celebrate the ice cream effect:
